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 personally see anxiety as so many things to me and that I why I feel I have so much trouble controlling it. At times it can be stressful, noisy, nerveracking and others just exhausting. I feel it is related to my lack of confidence and fear. Those are the two things I can relate it to most. I always want to go out and do things but then when it comes time things change. I used to go to concerts and loved it, then all of a sudden I want to go but when I get there I cannot handle the crowd or all the people around me. I pretty much go to work and come home, I have become afraid to do much else. I have tried seeing counselors, they always try to push me to meds that only make me check out emotionally and I have zero emotion. I am a firm believer that meds are not the answer for everyone and I will always try other things before I try meds if I ever do. Maybe that isn't the way to go about it but I have enough health problems that are controlled without meds, there has to be a way.
I am hoping to find some solutions that may help me with this confusion that I call anxiety since it never seems to be the same all the time.
So what’s helped me so far is doing yoga, keeping a journal, keeping myself busy, getting a weighted blanket, making positive but not annoying music playlist, getting an essential oil air diffuser, or just taking walks (as I personally hate the gym lol).
Hope this helps! Feel free to message me anytime :) best of luck!
10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
As to meds, I refused for years and kept working in counseling and finding other ways to cope. I think its important a person do that whether they're on meds or not. For me personally, I eventually added meds to my mental health tool box and admit it has helped A TON But I still work on natural coping and hope to be off meds at some point or reducing them but the quality of my life is WAY better-my efforts go farther. I'm NOT convincing someone to take meds-just saying that its not the end of the world if you do and it doesn't have to last forever either. ☺