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...
How do I listen to Mom worry about brother living on the street and detach from the emotions. She is being sued for a lot of money. But she should still have a fair amount of money left even if they win. She has good lawyer. I keep reasuring her I will help him. I will buy him an apartment. I wont let him be on streets. She knows I dont have a whole lot of money. If she keeps living for a lot more years her money will dwindle down also.
She has GAD and OCD. So do I. She won't try new meds. Hers work some . She is rigid and negative. Therapy never helped. She said the therapist couldn't fix her problems. Brother was same way. I'm the only one who worked hard in therapy.
Barbara
She has GAD and OCD. So do I. She won't try new meds. Hers work some . She is rigid and negative. Therapy never helped. She said the therapist couldn't fix her problems. Brother was same way. I'm the only one who worked hard in therapy.
Barbara
I have become outrageously straight talking. Tell mum to pull her head out of her arse. Tell her to get a life. If she is having a GAD attack she can have it in her room on her own dime. You don't have to be the victim of her giant psychological screen dump.
In fact I would leave if I could. Don't live with her. Don't talk to her when she does this. Make yourself unavailable for it. My counsellor calls it a 'racket' - it's my mother's way of righting the power/psychological balance, dominating our lives, she shows up, rants her head off, purges all her crap all over me, and then walks away feeling fine while I'm bleeding on the floor wanting to die, hugely triggered into a giant anxiety attack and unable to continue with all of MY responsibilities because they've been blown out of the water. She has a fantastic knack of having 'heart scares' on the nights before I have exams, as well.
I now don't let her get the second sentence in and she hates it, tries to dump on the next daughter, and the next, but they're getting wise, too. If you don't lie down and enable them, they can't do this to you. She's basically pooing on you.