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...
Hi, everyone!
Do you ever have thoughts that pop into your head late at night? Here's one of mine.
Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, think of its positive opposite and repeat it until the negative thought goes away.
Example:
Negative Thought: I am stupid.
Positive Opposite: I am at least average in intelligence...I am at least average in intelligence...I am...
Good day, all!
Beaumont
Do you ever have thoughts that pop into your head late at night? Here's one of mine.
Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, think of its positive opposite and repeat it until the negative thought goes away.
Example:
Negative Thought: I am stupid.
Positive Opposite: I am at least average in intelligence...I am at least average in intelligence...I am...
Good day, all!
Beaumont
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
Why does it do my head in so much????
xxx
the key is to not look at things through 'rose tinted specticals', but like you say, challange the negative thoughts and replace them with more 'realistic' ones.
sounds easy, but when your in a cloud of anxiety, its very hard to think straight at all, this is why the 'skill' must be practiced most when you feel well, so you are ready for the bad times - its like with relaxation, at first when i tried out the exercises, it brought on full blown panic! cos relaxing was a strange feelin to me, but i stuck with it, an especially when i felt 'well' i practiced, cos its easier to concentrate an stuff. an now i look forward to doing my relaxation exercises, and can get straight into it, an its comforting, like getting into a warm bath. i guess its the same with 'changing your thoughts' - if it dosnt work at first stick with it, an remember to do it when your well - i myself am battling with this, its tough, but i keep trying, and hope that one day positive thoughts will flood my brain as readily as the negative ones do these days, i hope that thinkin positive will become as natural as breathing, an i strongly believe i or anyone who can achieve this will be cured! how positive is that?! vicky XXX