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...
OK, we've all been through that: OHHHHH, I'm dying for SURE this time! If I think about how many heart attacks I should have had or other serious illnesses then I think I would have been dead at the age of 7. Seriously. And I'm 35 now. So today I'm on the elliptical worrying about keeling over off the damn thing and then I just go: OK, uh..... you are working your ever so fragile heart up to 149 beats per minute and sustaining that for 40-50 minutes and you haven't died yet....... I just have to find humor in this somewhere. Thoughts or experiences you're willing to share:)
As the temperature in the room crept up and up so did my anxiety. Extreme temperatures seem to wreck havoc on me for some reason.
Anyway, I am sitting at my desk and my boss is sitting right across from me (we were the only two in that particular office).
In an effort to relieve the anxiety I tried zoning out the best I could and just sort of disassociating myself from the situation.
Before I knew it, there I was lighting up a cigarette right in the office!! My boss looked at me like I was crazy and I was in total shock!!
I couldn't believe I had done that!! We must have sat there and stared at each other for 1/2 a minute just in utter disbelief!
It gave us both a good laugh afterward but boy was that embarassing!