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...
I've been in an off and on relationship or whatever this has been with this man for 4 years and my anxiety has reached through the roof and I don't know what to do. I can't believe I allowed myself to be in this constant state of nervousness, panic, worry, stress and fear from the way this man treats me and yet I am still here dealing with me. I'm afraid to say no in fear of retaliation or anything. At work I can't focus, I shake my legs so much it shakes the desks. I have no more appetite, hardly sleep and just have no life in me to be productive. What is wrong with me??
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
What do you mean by retaliation? Is this guy violent? Has he made threats toward you if you leave him?
You can go to the local police station and get a restraining order against him.
Do you have family or friends that you can turn to and ask them for help in your situation?
This sounds like a no-win situation. You're nervous and anxious with him, and nervous and anxious without him. It's affecting all aspects of your life in a negative way. This relationship can not work, and when you leave, for good, you can start building up your strength and self esteem. There is a way out and a way to have a much better life.
Talking to a therapist can be helpful in this situation.
You deserve to be with someone who is good to you and there for you. There are plenty of good men out there... you don't have to settle for this bad guy.
my least favorite part of my own anxiety cycles is that they multi-purpose with discouraging ease. worries about relationships morph into financial worries to health worries to political worries to whatever to whatever in seamless morph sequences. i can never quite pinpoint when my ex-best friend became a tax collector, but it keeps happening, all the same.
i focus on managing the anxiety more than the subjects of my anxiety. the tax collector will contine sending tax bills whether i worry the fact or just knuckle down and do what needs to be done. well. . . the bills stop coming after i pay them, but sometimes worry reinforced with arguing will lower the bill.
it's okay if you didn't understand a word of that. . .take what you like and leave the rest. i mostly wanted to welcome you to the forum.
welcome aboard. hope you find stabilizing companionship here.