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...

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WhymZ 03/07/2008

I was wondering if ya'll have triggers for your anxiety? Soemthing that starts it off. For instance, if I get too warm, or if my stomach hurts, it tends to 'trigger' my anxiety. Also my BP tends to trigger or it or vice versa. How about ya'll?

deleted_user 03/07/2008

If start to feel physical symptoms such as a headache or hand tingling, it triggers my anxiety bad. I feel like anytime I feel something odd in my body it triggers my anxiety because I worry about what's happening in my body. It's enough to drive me crazy!!!

wimbly83 03/07/2008

Any physical symptom really is a trigger for me. Especially an upset stomach!! Shortness of breath caused by exercise can even do it too...ugh!

SageM 03/08/2008

A lot of my anxiety is part of my health problems so ya feeling a bit worse on a certain day or having a new symptom does trigger it for me but there are a lot of other things that can trigger it too.

Like a tv show, someones name being mentioned, a commercial...sometimes I wonder if anything can do it.

deleted_user 03/08/2008

any physial symptom, pms, when I am overwelmed, sometimes when i I am angry,
what if thinking--negative talk to myself, sometimes when I think I don't have any control over asituation, and on and on the list goes. yikes.....!

DogCrazy 07/16/2008

Feeling sick, being overtired, overworked or being worried about going through certain situtions, being watched, centre of attention.
Usually once i start to get physicall symptoms the more i fight it the worse it makesit.
I do journaling and turn my negative thiking into realistic thinking, this helps alot especially if i do it on a daily basis.
It makes me feel more in control of my life which in turn helps cuts down the anxiety .
Good Luck And Warmest Wishes x

deleted_user 07/16/2008

I could spend all day listing my triggers, sometimes I hate to even move for fear of feeling anxious.

deleted_user 07/16/2008

I have a lot of triggers. Driving in the car alone is a big one. Loud noises, flashing lights, etc. But my favorite one... the one that makes me laugh cause you just have to... Is stopping and thinking wow I'm doing really great I'm not having a panic attack. And as soon as the word panic hits my brain, I start to have one. hee hee

ECC 07/16/2008

For me, it's just thinking about the past. It's mental. I have had so many disapppointments in life that when I start to dwell on them it triggers my anxiety without fail. I have started repeating positive affirmations to myself daily, and it has really helped me get out of that rut.

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