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 was wondering if any of you know the source of your anxiety?
I was only thinking about this the other day when it dawned on me the source of mine, why I didn't recognise the source which to me was a mystery, I put my GAD down to other stresses such as work/money but now I think I know.
In my early 20s (I'm not approaching the big 40) I was working as a postman and everyday at work I would have to sort my mail in a busy sorting office.
The office in question didn't have an adequate ventilation system. In fact it had none, this wasn't a problem when you first arrived at work, but as few hundred postman/women started to use up all the oxygen in the office the only thing that was left in abundance was CO2. By the time I had sorted my mail I found myself feeling dizzy, short of breath with feelings like I was about to pass out. On many occasions I would have to leave my sorting frame and rush outside to get 5 mins of fresh air.
I obviously mentioned this to my line manager who said that if 300 people were suffering they would spend the money on air-conditioning, but as I was the only one who mentioned it, there was nothing they could do. That said I wasn't the only person who felt like the air was thin, or lacking in oxygen but there wasn't enough people to voice the complaint.
Have any of you looked back at what is the root cause of your anxiety, I think sometimes it helps to look even further back than the initial assessment made by a GP or Doctor?
I was only thinking about this the other day when it dawned on me the source of mine, why I didn't recognise the source which to me was a mystery, I put my GAD down to other stresses such as work/money but now I think I know.
In my early 20s (I'm not approaching the big 40) I was working as a postman and everyday at work I would have to sort my mail in a busy sorting office.
The office in question didn't have an adequate ventilation system. In fact it had none, this wasn't a problem when you first arrived at work, but as few hundred postman/women started to use up all the oxygen in the office the only thing that was left in abundance was CO2. By the time I had sorted my mail I found myself feeling dizzy, short of breath with feelings like I was about to pass out. On many occasions I would have to leave my sorting frame and rush outside to get 5 mins of fresh air.
I obviously mentioned this to my line manager who said that if 300 people were suffering they would spend the money on air-conditioning, but as I was the only one who mentioned it, there was nothing they could do. That said I wasn't the only person who felt like the air was thin, or lacking in oxygen but there wasn't enough people to voice the complaint.
Have any of you looked back at what is the root cause of your anxiety, I think sometimes it helps to look even further back than the initial assessment made by a GP or Doctor?
I really believe that some of us were born with extra sensitive nervous systems, and some of us were not in the best environments to protect us while growing and maturing (both physically and mentally). While coping with 'being different" and put in volitile, high anxiety situations frequently, our adrenal glands (and many others) over reacted. Now as we are older, what ever caused or "over stimulated" our already fragile and sensitive systems, we are kind of stuck with the effects.
I was raised in a volitile, insane, disfunctional, abusive in every sense of the word, family. It was like a war zone. I was always on "high alert". I was affected much more powerfully than my sister by our "family" dynamics. As a result, I think my whole nervous system and brain functions are "out of whack". I always feel like some "bomb" is going to explode, something bad will happen any second, I have fibromyalsia and claustraphobia also, and I bet they are all related to feelings of tension, fear, danger, in the child nervous system, and growing into adult hood.
Our nervous systems were never given a chance to be "normal", They were constantly over stimulated. In my case, anyway.
It's interesting to know what the roots are, but as one therapist told me (a behavioralist), " what matters is what are you going to do now", not so much, "where did it come from". It does help to know, though, I think.
lack of stability
lack of security
lack of support & validation
lack of power or control
crisis followed upom crisis
accumulation of trauma
extra sensitive nervous system
abandonment (emotional)
pressure to be what other people expect
pressure to "perform" the way others expect
Knowing the cuase is helpful but not the solution ... is the solution to respect ourselves for who we are? I don't know how to do this.
It is almost like, where do you begin.
I agree, other people's crappy attitudes are a biggie.
Fatigue.
MS acting up, especially pain.
Not healing and putting behind me a rape and abusive relationship.