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...
For the past few days my past has been eating me up inside. When i was younger around 12 or 13. I did things that where bad but at the time i didn't know any better. Every few years the memories pop into my head randomly and consume me. Its been over 10 years and i wouldn't dare do any of those things again. But my brain wont let them gone and I'm so ashamed. How do i let these memories go? I hate that i ever did any of that stuff.
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
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I've been feeling like I don't matter my wife the other day instead of telling me she was having a pain day when I went to have sex with her she tell me afterwards that she having pain day due to her fribromyalgia and making feel like shit afterward saying she has a list of things from past 9 years of thing for me to do and is always adding more and more to this list and talk...
Forgive yourself. You learned from those experiences.
Self-forgiveness and making amends was/is my ticket out of that vicious loop. The further I get with this practice, the more I find that, for the most part, I am only forgiving myself for doing the best I can with a bad situation. In the cases where I believe I have hurt someone else with my misbegotten efforts, making amends goes a long way toward easing the guilt and helping myself understand how to do ^it^ better the next time.
My memory is just doing its job when it won't let me forget. I actually damaged my memory in the effort to forget. Trying too hard to forget is kinda like scratching a computer's hard drive to scrub porn off of the internet.
can help yourself.
Much psychotherapy later, I came to realize I had been too busy forgetting to get to the forgiving. Who needs to forgive what they can forget? Turns out, forgiving is much harder work than forgetting.
But that is me and every case is unique. . .
Keep venting, Maree. Your own answers are in there.
Listening. . .