Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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just need to vent

cgagirl
cgagirl

Hello!


I'm not much of a sharer, particulary with strangers, but I am a little fed up with life right now (not suicidal, just really annoyed).  I work full-time and am in school getting my masters, add that to the responsibilities I have to my family and I am pretty much burnt out.  I ended up on this website as part of a class project, which, in only the first two weeks of class, is driving me crazy already.  Basically, we're supposed to observe group therapy sessions and while there are a variety of in-person groups in my area, none of them so far are willing to have a student observe.  Adding insult to injury, one of the things that really revs up my anxiety is having to enter into new situations; so I'm stressed about finding a group, attending a group, and, oh yeah, if I'll get a good grade on the three assignments tied to the observations.


All I really want to do right now is forget every last one of my responsibilities, crawl under my covers, and stay there.  But being irresponsible makes me anxious too. :(

Community LeaderMid
Mid
Instead of going to the group therapy as an observer, try going in as a participant and observing that way. I can understand not want active observation, because therapy sessions are private. Information learned can not be revealing personal identification. Stress is natural, anxiety is natural, learn how to use them as tools to keep your well-being balanced.
Best wishes.
cgagirl
cgagirl
Thanks for the thoughts! The extra challenge is that it's online schooling, so the school is based out of Minnesota and the professor for my class is in Florida. I finally figured something out, but I get pretty obsessive about my grades and when I feel like I'm going to do poorly because someone else has control over part of my grade, it's extra anxiety inducing. So, I start freaking out about my grades, then life starts to suck, and the spiral continues until I hit some sort of emotional dead end where I have to climb out of my anxious, depressed hole.
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