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...
ok been reading some posts here, and i am confused, i have seen people post they are having an anxiety attack and they are worried about a pain, in my opinion the first step should be to calm someone down or at least try to, i have seen alot of people giving them answers that if i were having an attack would put me into more of an anxious state. am i wrong in posting this and saying please think how you would feel if someone said this to you before you post it to someone els e
Sometimes I have been up late and someone will post and we just go through the tools and the basics of how to calm each other down and to know that we are both there for each other.
Other times even if I know I might get into trouble I might challenge someone's thinking because I see the same patterns over and over and I know that I have spent endless days and months doing the same thing myself. I want them to know that there is a way out.
Maybe they will read it later and challenge themselves.
For me I get the most out of when someone coaches me through and lets me see some of my own pitfalls. Sometimes it is so hard to see past the anxiety and panic attacks to be able to work through them.
For me, this place is about recovery and I want others to recover as well.
Most of us here will just say, go get it checked out to a poster.
I know I will say more if that person continues to have the same unexplainable symptoms over a period of time. There is no need to suffer in silence and ignore your condition because you don't want to face that it might be something. relieve your mind and have it go checked out.