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...
At the beginning of the school year, I decided to try therapy for the first time. At first, I loved it and felt so relieved to finally be able to express my feelings fully to a complete stranger and just have someone listen. After my first couple of sessions, I realized I did not like therapy as much as I originally thought. When it came time to have another session, I dreaded it because my therapist would bring up thoughts that I did not want to talk about at that moment, and it would make me sad. I could be having the best day but then therapy would bring me down again. I realized my anxiety is something I need to work on for myself, and therapy may not be able to help me.
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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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...
Therapy gives your feelings a voice.
Therapy is not just all "fun" talk. Sometimes we have issues that we have been stuffing down for so long and sometimes it feels kind of bad (at first) to have someone drudge these issues up. But a therapist is a trained professional who can help guide you through those not-so-good feelings, and help you with ways to manage them.
I encourage you to continue with your therapy. You could get a different therapist if you want, and start again.
Ya can't climb a rope that is only attached to your own belt. I solidly believe that climbing out of the psychic holes of mental health takes a team effort with more than one member on the rescue team. For my own recovery, my pro teams and my peer support teams have worked hand in hand, helping me to view and heal my psychic injuries from a wide range of perspectives and theories. As an impromptu, ad hoc team, they have held me steady through the healing journey.
That bit of personal experience has me wondering if going those places that you were uncomfortable with in therapy will be easier to handle with the peer support you can find here and in other places on the peer support network. Just wondering. . . It be yours to sort.
Gentle support while you sort. Welcome aboard.