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 am stuggling alot with anxeity , i have rencently just lost my job my anxeity has gotten worse since than. i have been unployed for month now and i have alot feeling about my past job and how it is my fault and keep asking myself what could have done to change things. As of today i had a few sleepless nights , i get anxious at night and a lot to do with memories coming back . Sometimes it feels like a night mare that living in and i can't seem to move past it. I want to move on so badly and forget what happend to me. I know i wasn't treated fairly and i made some mistakes due to anxiety and constantly afraid all time on what i might do. I now feel like that anxiety has effect my job perfomance over the years. Afraid of being fired and in fear. I constantly check myself too often and don't trust myself that i can do a good job. with all that said after being fired from the job. A person came to me and said i think you discriminated and they just didn't like you. Now i feel like its hard me to cope and do my daily routine. i feel like its stressful for me to go out apply for jobs and part of me isn't ready to work again. and even anxiety is diffcult with driving i worry to much about that too. well please help me i feel like every day gets worse. i know relaying god is what i should do but sometimes i think that i am crazy or just somthing really wrong.
First off....I am an ex-anxiety sufferer....so I know where you are coming from.
Gosh I could feel the old me in your words....I was quite desperate and prayed prayed prayed that God would take away this awful anxiety condition. For a very loooooong time I beleived that God didn't hear my cries for help. What I eventually, and thankfully figured out is that God was pleading with me to get off my duff and do something about overcoming this condition. Turns out...in life....you can't change the trajectory of what is happening to you UNLESS....you make a decision to do something else instead.
This began my search....and search I did! I fell for every snake oil, quack pot therapy, medication, new age cure that ever hit the market. Not that all of this research was bad....for it really gave me the true knowledge of what really works and what really doesn't.
Turns out....I had inside me the entire time what I needed to overcome this condition....I just didn't know it. All I needed to do was retrain my very anxious, and in my case, very depressed brain. Once I figured out that I was the one that was creating and purpetuating my condition while also learning tools in which to help myself...my anxiety just started to fade away.
I put together a 12 Week self help here on DS awhile ago and I do hope to update it in the future but if you friend me you can find the first draft which will have no comments and not as much information but are easy to find. I do however believe it to be more helpful to pull up a newer version of posts I did starting back in April. (I explain how to pull these up below). This way you can read others comments which can be most helpful. The reason this can be helpful is because for one...it will make you see that you are so not alone....and two...the posts may spark a familularity with what you are experiencing.
So back to God....this is the reason I am on to DS to begin with. I'm over anxiety....I could have gone on with my life and just let it be part of my past....right? Well....I made a promise to the big guy that if I ever overcome anxiety and my resulting depression I said that I would help anyone else who also was ever in need. So I have a long road ahead of me...right?...hahah! Truly, I don't mind....helping others to overcome what almost took me under is nothing short of pure pleasure for me.
If you are interested in trying out the 12 weeks posts to understanding and overcoming anxiety....just type in....Week One....into the search box at the top of the main anxiety discussion page. The Week One Introduction should pop up. Subsequent weeks....will be under....Week Two, Week Three and so on. If you post a comment on the topic...(which is helpful not only for you but for others as well)...it will bring the page forward to the main page. Don't forget to read everyone's comments....I believe you will find it very surprising how common and ordinary this condition is.
My dear....as far as your job goes.....you'll get another one. Right now I think it is time to put anxiety where it belongs....in your past. I come from a belief that everything happens for a reason...(yes that means this nasty anxiety too). Once you truly start working on it you'll get your answers. Focus instead on what to change in order to stop it.
My best to you on your journey out of anxiety!
I learned to handle money better, i learned what I was worth and learned to like myself! turn the negative into a positive, there is always something to learn from in a lousy situation. Keep us posted and good luck!
They have finally diagnosed me with spinal stenosis...I'm happy I am NOT nuts, whiny or lazy. For me it's happy happy, let's fix it. Need to get moving to put rest of anxiety behind me. I want to go on adventure and not fret about being lost...losing my car...yes I lose car in lots or side streets but I must be able to do things with granddaughters.
Negative to positive rings in my head daily
Played trivia last night and found myself telling team mate to NOT call herself dumb, that's self fulfilling prophecy!!#