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...
What do you do when your therapist, doctor, and psychiatrist all say that this overwhelming, incapacitating feeling of anxiety is justified by your life's circumstances? I'm finishing my master's program, and all of my plans have basically been postponed for my doctoral program because I'm too poor to apply, let alone move out of state. I haven't found a job yet for post-graduation. I haven't finished my thesis, and it all just seems really bleak. I won't have insurance when I graduate, nor will I be able to afford it. No one around here really takes Medicaid (because I had that before school started). I also won't be able to see a therapist once I graduate.
There's just a lot happening, and it feels like no good solution is out there. And, everyone in my life seems to agree and says that my anxiety is perfectly understandable. But, that doesn't make it any more managable, and I'm really at a loss for what to do.
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
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I don't really know how to label this but I having a rough week and I can't say it's one thing.... I have a lot on my plate which is nothing new and I try to cope in many positive ways and do but I still have my moments.My kids more so my daughters talk to me about everything which I know it's cause of comfort and we are close.... however I really struggle with the venting about their dad which...
Anxiety has been present all of my life. I have also gone through school and earned a masters degree. I would like to earn a phd but am unable to stop working or go into further student loan debt. My anxiety was very present throughout.
It is 2:15am and I can't sleep because of anxiety. I know why I'm anxious but that does not change the fact that I feel terrible and want to feel better.
Hope this helps.
I'm also facing a difficult time and I can relate to your post very closely. I am finishing my master's degree by the summer and under normal circumstances I would pursue the phd. I will have to delay this chapter of my life for a little while.
I am focused on goals and achievements, and overall I have had no issues with academic performance. However tasks look way difficult at this stage, I am tired, unfocused, or so stressed that I cannot accomplish the same levels of load.
My doctor also thinks "it is normal", I wonder if he would say the same were he facing the symptoms. I am looking for another doctor.
What is your master about ? What do you do to concentrate and focus on school?
So from their point of view, giving you anything isn't going to help. And that's probably where their minds are at.
they are also trying to give you the idea that you yourself are not defective or dysfunctional; ie that you're not a bad egg or anything. That when you are through this time of your life, you will become 'normal' again. This is them trying to give you heartening news.
As to how things are going for you right now? You have to compartmentalise. You have to identify what you can have an impact on, and then go hard at it till it's done, and then when that is done identify what you can have an impact on, and go hard at that till it's done.
Trying to handle all of the problems you have at once is no go. It's not a workable technique. You won't know what job you can get till you graduate. You won't know where you live till you get a job. Draw yourself a flow chart of the things you can know and plan for and identify dates on the calendar when you will review the issue. Put the reminder in your phone and let it go.
You'll realise very few issues can be interfaced with right now, and therefore have to be shelved for later. And if they have to be shelved? then they CAN be shelved. This is a very useful skill, rejecting for later those things you cannot deal with now. I do it all the time.
A nice big flow chart with dates and time line will do wonders for you. I know that sounds supremely tacky but it has made a whole lot of difference to my life to write these things out and see them for what they are, and I think you have the education to take the idea and get a lot out of it if you are willing to go ahead and do it.
And don't push for medication. That's a double-edged sword.