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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...

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Oh Well...

kpossible
kpossible

Well, the last two days my anxiety has been high. I felt anxious all last evening, and then today I felt overwhelmingly anxious. It got to the point where I was at lunch, and I couldn't eat because I felt so anxious. I started to struggle with my breathing and it just escalated from there into a panic attack. I know it's not easy. I suppose I had a bit of a small victory. I wasn't able to prevent my panic attack today, but I was able to stall it for an hour or so trying to focus on other things. I was sitting in class an hour or so before lunch, when my anxiety started building, but I just tried to focus on what the teacher was saying. Of course, there were extenuating circumstances at lunch where I was deliberately trying not to focus on what my friends were talking about so I let the anxiety creep up, but tomorrow is another day, and we'll see how it goes.

arfie
arfie
Is it further progress that you recovered so quickly and have such a clear awareness of what happened so soon after the event? The fact that you are already seeing places where you can further improve your anxiety management has me turning green with envy. Way to take charge of your condition. Go you. The only thing that keeps me from declaring it great progress is that I just a patient. I gots the doctors putting me in my place to *prove* it.

Tomorrow is, indeed, another day. May the progress continue.
kpossible
kpossible
Thanks arfie, and believe me it's not fun or easy. It's physically painful sometimes to not just let my anxiety have free roam. I think I am making progress on my recovery time though.
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Good for you, you use the stop, pause, and it's helping you move through that moment! Hurrah on the work!
arfie
arfie
It is, indeed, easier to just let my anxiety vent itself according to Nature's own design. Mother Nature know what's best. The problem being that our civilization doesn't run on Natural protocols. That natural venting doesn't fit our culture any more than a caveman dragging a cavewoman by the hair for *his* all natural venting. Thank civilization for putting some curbs on that all-natural sequence. Nature isn't always the benign lady popular stigma likes to dress Her in.

Working with what Life sends us instead of what *ought to be*. . .

You're doing great, Kpossible. Believe in yourself.
kpossible
kpossible
Thanks, so much. I'm working on that too arfie. ;)
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