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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donttread 02/22/2009

It's a serious question. I'm a believer that part of why we do things is secondary gain. Sometimes I think my anxiety , especially the kind where I worry about stuff I know is highly unlikely , takes my mind off the real issues I need to deal with . Either in connection to the problem I'm worrying about or in general.
So I worry the nth degree of a scenario while completely ignoring the parts where I could actually make a difference. Or my own feelings.
Does that sound familiar or even make sense to antone?

vonnyzzz 02/22/2009

absolutely makes sense. with me I just think I am obsessed with analysing other things related to my panic disorder. I dont think I do this to stop me dealing with the normal things in my life its just what my anxiety makes me do or that I choose to do. does that make sense??

donttread 02/22/2009

Thanks Vonnyzzz. I certainly can tend to over analyse .
I think sometimes my worry about the catastropic worst case scenario prevents me or allows me to escape from the actual meat of the issue.
In those cases realizing it and trying to deal with the issue seems to help, but I've only tried it recently.

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