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...
Thank you to all of you who responded to my first post! It helped me immensely. Unfortunately, I started anxiety spiraling again shortly thereafter. My symptoms of my health problems are persisting, which led me to consult google more and more.
I’m so anxious it’s now affecting my ability to sleep. I’m also afraid to be awake, out of bed, socializing, and living day-to-day life. I’ve been in a horrible mood and worried that I’m driving my partner away. For logistic and insurance purposes, I won’t be able to go to the doctor until after January 15. I don’t know what to do to relieve my anxiety until then, but I need to stop consulting Dr. Google. Tomorrow I am going to stop googling my symptoms, etc. Please help me keep accountable so I can stop feeding my anxiety fire!!!
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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...
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I did the dumbest thing today. I charged my earbuds, unplugged the block and put the block in my little bag instead of the earbuds. I wasn't happy about that when I got to the gym. What a dummy!
All knowing as Dr Google is, he/she is more phantom than reality. Just a mindless program matching words with no deeper regard for content. . . When I treat Dr Google like a professional, I am still travelling that unsafe neighborhood in my head alone. At least self-help books have to go through editorial review to be published. Dr Google can find every crackpot on the planet with zero need for credentials or reality checks. They say my, my like a spider to a fly. Jump straight ahead in my web. I say, check the references and ingredients before buying snake oil. Personally, I don't trust my own research skills when my anxiety fires are burning, however awesome my proven research skills are on a calm day. Anxiety is far from an intelligence enhancer and research is far from an exact science.
Oops. . . Am I digressing? ? ?
Continued support while you find your healing path, Ebo.
I’ve had days like that where I could not sleep due to anxiety. My anxiety was caused by my Mother’s illness. It seemed like I could not turn my mind off. I felt such a sense of loss and being unable to do anything about my Mom’s health.
My comfort came from reading Scriptures that address anxiety; for instance, “Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.” Proverbs 12:25
Looking up scriptures and trying to remember them as I struggled to sleep, really helped me. Not being able to sleep has such a big impact on how we feel, right? I’ve also tried aromatherapy, by spraying lavender on my pillow. There are other things that helped me, like playing a podcast and turning the volume down really low so that I had to strain to hear it. It made my brain concentrate on the podcast instead of anything else and taking a warm bath before bed helped. I am sure thinking of you and pray that you find peace and comfort.