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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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The Mystery

arfie
arfie

My anxiety levels have been extreme the past few days with no clear reason why. My analytical compulsion is, of course, clamouring to know why, what, who, where and when of ? ? ? Whatever makes sense of these dreadful waves of anxiety. There's always a logical explanation. I *just* have to find the right question. So sayeth my analytical compulsion as I analyze my way down the proverbial rabbit hole once more.


Just breathe. . .


For all the times I've ridden this not-so-merry-go-round, logical explanations have yet to help. I theorate that anxiety is not a logical phenom. I might as well be asking the wind to give me the algorhythms by which I can predict its currents. I've been breathing to the mantra, "Let the Mystery Be."


Yes, I know Iris Dement wrote a song by that name. It's a good song, despite the fact that she stole the main line. As Mark Twain said, "There would be no culture without plagiarism."

DementedDoll
DementedDoll
My anxiety occasionally spikes because it hasn't been high for a while, and I guess since that's so unusual, it panics my brain. Of course the logic here doesn't help either, I just think "if I haven't been anxious I haven't been worrying, what bad things did I set in motion while I wasn't worried?" Logic is usually my friend, but anxiety requires a lot more tools than just that.

Thanks for sharing, wishing you relaxation ^^
Community LeaderMid
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When you get changes in anxiety, take a moment to consider what changes you have in your daily routine.

Then distract yourself with activity.

Best wishes.
summerbabe88
summerbabe88
Ahh, the abhorrent waves of anxiety. I've experienced an uptick in mine as well. As I write this my brain is doing the " sniff out " as I like to call it. It's when my brain goes through my past few days of feeling anxious and not having a solid reason why. It seems your brain does that as well. Of course there's usually a reason as to our levels of anxiety but we tend to overanalyze something & turn it into something more than it is. Also, our pysche needs to be relaxed in order for us to ask those right questions. May you feel better and positive wishes.
hummingbird1960
hummingbird1960
The microwaves that surround us due to cell phones and wifi can really have an affect on our health. I will leave a youtube video link here for everyone to check out. It's always a possibility that the microwaves are causing many symptoms that people are experiencing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRw1-kG04h8&index=14&list=LLb_xvo-xAd6kCF_IYMf9RUA&t=1714s
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