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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Mac36
Mac36

This is just a reminder that you CAN make changes within yourself.  Outside of seeing/talking with a therapist, there are several good books out there that can help you not just manage your anxiety, but control it towards elimination.  I have mild/moderate anxiety with OCD and ruminating thoughts; I can tell you that how you ENGAGE with your anxiety makes a huge difference in the battle.  I've learned to do two things: first, I treat my anxiety like a friend - even giving it a nickname; that has helped me not to fear an attack but welcome it to diffuse the situation; as for my thoughts - I treat them like each thought is an idea for a fiction novel - this reminds me that they are simply ideas for a character/someone else and not thoughts that can control me. The more I do these things, the less anxiety I seem to actually "feel".  I hope this is helpful to someone out there who needs it.  I'm not an expert and have only been diagosed since June 2019 (although my symptoms started in December 2017), but these are things that have helped me.

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Finding the natural method for making anxiety work for you is wonderful!

Best wishes and thank you for sharing.
stillstanding
stillstanding
Thank you for sharing! I try out doing these starting today
preciousmidwest
preciousmidwest
Interesting idea son how to reframe anxiety. I hate it when I get the anxiety so would not consider it a friend. This is a different mindset and it may help. My philosophy is anything that can help dealing with anxiety is worth a try.
Liandreth
Liandreth
This is definitely a different way of perceiving that anxious feeling when it starts to show it’s ugly head, I personally never want to welcome it & want to get rid of it completely so not sure how this could work for me. But I definitely appreciate How you’ve adapted the mindset of looking at it as a friend instead of a foe so that it can’t hurt you. That’s actually very smart. Good for you. Thank you so much for sharing
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