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...
Today is my dad's birthday and I really want to go see him, but my anxiety is not making it easy. My dad has been calling me for weeks and I haven't talked to him because of my anxiety. He will call me once and I won't be able to answer and I'll make a note to call him back, except he will keep calling up to 4 or 5 times in a day and it makes my anxiety go waaaayyyy up. So then I feel guilty for ignoring him and then I'll be too anxious to call him back and he will keep calling every single day which for some reason makes me feel even worse and too ashamed of ignoring him to call back.
So now I need to go explain to him I wasn't trying to be awful, but I can't explain my anxiety to my dad he would not understand. He's 73 and very forgetful and he and I are not close enough for me to explain it to him, we've only really had a relationship for a few years.
At the same time I am weaning myself off of my anxiety pills, (trazodone), because I have been taking it every day and my doctor won't prescribe me enough to continue doing that so I know soon I will not have it and I need to function without it so my anxiety is very very bad today I tossed and turned all night worrying, (about everything), so much I cried til 4 am.
Any advice on breathing techniques or how to get my crazy head to work right for ONE DAY?!
So now I need to go explain to him I wasn't trying to be awful, but I can't explain my anxiety to my dad he would not understand. He's 73 and very forgetful and he and I are not close enough for me to explain it to him, we've only really had a relationship for a few years.
At the same time I am weaning myself off of my anxiety pills, (trazodone), because I have been taking it every day and my doctor won't prescribe me enough to continue doing that so I know soon I will not have it and I need to function without it so my anxiety is very very bad today I tossed and turned all night worrying, (about everything), so much I cried til 4 am.
Any advice on breathing techniques or how to get my crazy head to work right for ONE DAY?!
Did your doctor give you any other tools for overcoming anxiety....(other then breathing and medication)?
If not....friend me....and on my journal page will be week by week entries with information pertaining to what you are dealing with. There is also tips on how to ease the discomfort that is caused by anxiety.
You are not alone....this is one of the most common emotional disorders accounting for the highest number of doctor visits every year.
I've also found trying to stop thinking a certain thought is crazy impossible. However I can tell myself a different story.
So what I tend to do is tell myself a story about how the discussion/situation will go and when I start to go in a bad direction, I shift it back to seeing the situation going well.
I also get anxiety when I feel like I'm "supposed" to do something a certain way but I don't know what "way" that is. So if I can shut that down and tell myself I'll do my best and learn as I go, it can sometimes help but I'm still working on it!
With medication, I've had huge luck with propranalol and L-Theanine.
Hope you find good answers that work for you.