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...
today I was in art and I began to have a mini panic attack. I notice when I'm around paint or if I don't get enough sleep . My anxiety kicks in. I just want to get back to my normal self but I feel like I shouldn't. It's about to be 2 months of this and I feel like this is a short time and everything will be back to normal pretty soon. My anxiety is horrible at school but when I'm in public it's not as bad. Idk what to do. I do experience derealization but how long does that last ? How can I get back to my normal self and get rid of anxiety FOR GOOD ?
Have you thought of hynotherapy? I know someone who didn't know why random things set her off until she went through hypnosis
She found out a lot about herself and ways to cope xx
You say you just want to get back to your normal self, but you feel like you shouldn't. Explore that feeling. Poke it like a hole in your tooth with your tongue. What does that mean?
A lot of this stuff involves exploring feelings, when often we don't have the words to describe the feelings and so it can be quite hard to figure out. But you have to nudge and push your reactions into a spot that is sensible. Push them away. Give yourself space. Work out what you want in your future and if being unable to deal with paint isn't in that future? Say things like 'sod that for a joke' or 'like bloody hell I am' or whatever it takes to make you say no, i'm going to push on through, i'm NOT going to take this seriously.
You have to accept the sensations but not let your mind make up rules for you to live by. And that's probably the hardest bit.