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arfie
arfie

My anxiety continues high. Super sucky feel, both literally and figuratively. Staying calm in the waves of despair and futility remains harder than hard. Resisting the anxious certainty that something dreadful is in progress is even harder. Not spending vast reserves of energy on analyzing ^it^ is harder, still. Answers and proof are *out there*. Gots to find them!!! If I can't *find* them, I'll create them!! Never mind how many times my forced solutions have resulted in even more complex disaster than I started with. Gots to do SOMETHING! Anything to get out of the way of the next anxiety wave. Bullshit to the notion of accepting that which I cannot change. It's ALL changeable!


Somewhere around the end of my formal therapy (2K), I started wearing a rosary wrapped around my wrist during periods of intense symptoms. The dangly part of it gets in the way of everything at the least expected of moments. Kinda like my psych symptoms. When it gets in the way during a calm moment, it reminds me to celebrate the moment of calm. During the intense moments, it reminds me to be extra gentle with myself.


Thoughts and reality checks welcome. Am I making sense?

Ash
Ash
(((hugs))) yes please be gentle with you. When you are over your hurdle your anxiety will pass. Well that's what I find... horrendous 'I'm-not-getting-out-of-this-car-for-anything' anxiety earlier is now gone. Hope yours is soon over.
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
Wow i do that same thing. I've always kept different stones in pouches & stuff as tools to help me calm & then this year I've recently also started wearing a rosary on my wrist when my pain gets too bad or anxiety & that exact same thing happens to me with the dangling part. I really like how you look at it when it gets in the way in a calm moments & also the intense moments. That makes a lot of sense.

I'm sorry your anxiety has been bad lately, I hope it gets easier & lighter soon. Here for you in the meantime
((((((Healing hugs))))))))
arfie
arfie
Thanks guys. I spent the morning on the river. It helped.

My anxiety started targeting hubs this morning as anger. Our 37th anniversary is 4 days away and it finds me in chump dumping mode. Feels like life would be much simpler outside of his well-trophied, ever busy shadow.

Dangle, dangle. . . Sorting. . . Seems like I am not at my most rational an either end of an anxiety wave.
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