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...
good afternoon everyone. I hope all of you are doing good today.
I've had panic disorder, anxiety disorder, for as long as I can remember.
sometimes. Like today. It comes out of nowhere like a punch to the stomach.
earlier I was helping my boyfriend wrap his cast up so he can take a shower.
And our cat kept coming into the bathroom, being nosy, etc. normal cat stuff, except in my mind I took it as a "sign"
I thought that the cat was acting weird and he was trying to tell me something terrible was going to happen.
trust me, when I say this I feel like it sounds cr**y.
But it still does not stop me from having really bad anxiety bordering on a panic attack.
I don't know why something like my cat being nosy and walking around the bathroom would trigger my anxiety and that horrible "impending sense of doom" but triggered it certainly has.
so now I keep thinking that something bad is about to happen. I keep checking my pulse, my oxygen level, my blood pressure, I'm just freaking out.
and I don't know why I allowed something so silly to trigger me and it makes me feel helpless and out of control and frustrated with myself
I feel silly even talking about it :(
like people are going to laugh thinking that I'm a weirdo or something
do any of you have things that trigger your anxiety or panic disorder that might not seem like they would be triggering to other people?
All I keep thinking of is this movie I watched where the cat jumps on the bed right before the people die. It was called Dr. sleep. So in my mind oh my God the cat is following me around what if it's like that cat in Dr. sleep?!
Saying it out loud as I am doing "talk to text" for this post I realize that it might sound silly or ridiculous. But to me I feel very anxious and scared right now.
I did take some of my anxiety medication because I have a day that I have to get through. with a lot of work left to do.
and I don't want to start obsessing then turn it into a full-blown panic attack
i'm sorry if this is a silly post. I'm starting to feel like it is LOL but if I don't get these things out of my mind,
I will obsess on them and it will turn into a horrible panic attack
Thank you for reading this I appreciate it
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
My own anxiety is such a sneaky snake that I'm not at all sure I often know the initial trigger. For sure, one anxiety leads to another on my not-so-merry-go-round. After anxiety rears its ugly head, ^it^ puts me on edge and I begin to see dangers everywhere. A child's laughter can sound like clear and present danger if I let the anxiety escalate far enough.
Writing it out, like you just did with this post, is one of own my most effective anxiety management tools. It helps me sort my valid anxieties from the silly spin-offs.
Hope you'll feel safe to keep writing ^it^ out here. Welcome aboard.
You've taken the important first step in writing it out.
Keep writing in a private journal. It helps you to find the pattern of words so you can distract it easier.
Best wishes as you find your better balance.