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...
I've had a morning or two where I felt "jittery", but this morning when I woke up anxiety had decided to have a seat on my chest and just sort of stare at me impishly. Got my mind racing a bit... scanning the body for the all the physical signs... brain bouncing about trying to figure out why it's here. The usual.
Then things changed a bit. I did some deep breathing exercises and tried to disengage the thinking. I got up and took my morning meds, upping the prn from hydroxizine to clonazepam, and got going about my morning routine... let the animals out, made some coffee, journaled. Between all of the that I noticed the anxiety had started to disipate... and that's even before the clonazepam has started to kick in. So, yay me! I have ideas why it's showing up (not an awesome night's sleep is one), but I have an IOP group today and I can hit up my therapist with a phone call to talk it through, plus solicit thoughts from you lovely people.
So, we had bats in our eaves this summer, which probably means they were in the attic too. Got the first estimate to get the bats excluded from the house and... ouch. And then there was the ball-park figure for doing a remediation of the attic (replace insulation, fumigate, etc)... double ouch + 1. So, that caused a fair amount of stress yesterday afternoon.
On top of that, we're supposed to be heading up to mountains for a long weekend this weekend and, here I am, less than a month out of hospital. I've got realy mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I think it will be awesome and relaxing. One the other hand, I think it means I'm out of my safe place just when I feel my level of anxiety creeping up a bit. What to do, what to do? I don't want to just give in to the anxious feelings like I've done in the past and cancel the trip (and dissapoint everyone else), but I also don't want to get up there and "freak out". Thoughts, anyone? I've got another couple days to figure out this out, and another couple of places to reach out for input.
TL;DR; had some morning anxiety, dealing with it okay. Stressors in life, weekend trip planned... more anxiety. What to do, what to do?
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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...
Then we get to bats in the belfry. . . Sorry. Couldn't resist.
As much as I love and advocate for wildlife habitat, I am not ready to claim them as the best of roommates. My last go-round with wildlife in my attic was raccoons. They protested mightily at every one of my eviction notices. The damage they left behind was beyond inconsiderate. Sigh. . . Does my homeowner's warranty cover this?
If you are taking votes, I vote you take that mountain weekend and shoot for the relaxation. Do you really want to be alone with batty roommates? I'm a flatlander at heart, but mountains are a majestic retreat from my flatlander worries.
Thanks for the input, and support, everyone.
I wish I were a river pirate. . . Lowland, of course. Them mountain rivers is a might testy for this river pirate, but they do make magical music.
Sigh. . . Stuck in the Dust Bowl again. . .
I’m happy for you! Take care of yourself, bring medications in case you need it and enjoy your trip.
Please keep us posted. God bless!
arfie, there are some nice lakes up in yon mountains for pirates to ravage. We're probably taking the kayaks up to get out and see what we can see. Last time it was osprey and moose.
And expressing the anxiety often helps to release some of it as well.
Excellent work!
Kayaks and fast moving mountain rivers are a match made in heaven. Hope you get lots of moosing around while getting sprayed by the osprey.