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...
Hello everyone,
I was so glad when I found this forum! I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have travelled on my own..countless! Once I am on the plane I can then relax its just everything that happens before sends me into an awful anxiety ride.
I'm going to go on a train to the airport for the first time ever on my own and I'm terrified that I won't get on the right platform. I know everything is clearly marked but when I'm anxious everything becomes so confusing for me and I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. I've learnt little ways to cope at the airport such as always sitting by the screen so I don't miss my gate number and then when that comes on I ensure to take a picture because my anxiety makes me forget everything!
Does anyone have any ideas on how to cope.. the lead up and on the day is just so mentally and physically exhausting!
Thank you so much!
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Hello- I am new to the group
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Now that I am not talking to my whatever best friend, I realized that her life is full of drama. I had grown tired of hearing her stories about her boyfriend many months ago. She basically had been monopolizing conversations for that long too. She pretty much stopped asking me questions about me. I passed her in front of her classroom the other day and didn't even look at her. I am...
in my adult life, i've mostly just travelled for pleasure, but i've travelled allot. it sounds to me like you already have a solid set of coping mechanisms. supplementing that set of coping mechanisms with peer support might be all you need to keep them functional. oftentimes, when my coping mechanisms start losing their effectiveness, sharing within my peer support network, such as you did with this very post, is all i need to fine tune those old coping mechanisms to give them renewed strength.
my suggestion would be for you to give this forum a twirl to see if it helps.
welcome aboard. hope you find stabilizing companionship here
You have made arrangements, so practice relaxing breathing, excitement anxiety is natural as well.
Here's to your success!
Even when it seems pretty clear where I need to be, I will sometimes confirm it with a staff member especially if I’m in a big city like Chicago which has a huge, busy train station with multiple trains, platforms etc.
i've gotten much further with radical acceptance of those unwelcome feelings. with radical acceptance, i no longer waste energy processing the surprise factor. they remain inconvenient at times, but they lose their power to disrupt the business at hand.