I’m afraid of rejection. I’ve been rejected so many times before. My usually outgoing personality has been stumped.
In my new role I have some important work to do where I need to meet up with people and ask them to support me as I support them.
This is a great help to me I can see the value in it already, as I have just just practiced some of the exercises.
My next step is to go outside of my comfort zone and expand my circle of concern by approaching colleagues for mutual help and assistance.
I like this video thank you i use to do that with my patients but the 3 steps are very useful, actually anxiety is very common and those self help techniques give the patients a sense of autonomy.they have to be repeated to be efficient though ….
Claudy fom noumea
Thank you for sharing this amazing content for free. I have two of your books and they have been my “refuge” during the most painful part of my life. “True Refuge” in particular was a soothing balm on my soul when I was on fire. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You alway feature on my gratitude list. Sending you many thanks and much love. Monika.
So, I have been using mindfulness techniques for a long time. And on a logical level I am capable of daily rationalizing and realizing that my fears and anxieties are very unlikely to occur or aren’t even realistic at all. (Such as having a meltdown because medical transit didn’t show up at the exact time they told me. And fears over being hated or abandoned.) Get myself to do breathing techniques, sometimes yawn, feel the tightness in my throat and heart beating. try and focus on my body, listen to relaxing music etc. But even when I have done all of this. And have tried comforting myself, and telling myself it is ok to be anxious, I haven’t felt like (overall) I have really gone anywhere. Even though I know I feel better once I am out in public and socially engaged, and don’t even know why I worry about people staring or watching me, I still struggle to walk outside my apartment complex. With crippling fear of people are going to approach me / humiliate or try to harm me. I had another of this happen this evening. And I walked strait back home again after reaching the end of the complex. And then tried again after coming back home for a minute, and got myself to actually go to the store I wanted to go to. And once I got there and was talking to the cashier I felt just fine. And despite these anxieties I still go out and am open about everything in my life. There is what feels like this disconnection between my logical thought process, and this overwhelming and illogical anxiety. I know it doesn’t really make logical sense for me to be so worried. Yet, it is there anyway. I don’t trust anyone, yet I am completely open and talk all the time about everything. And I don’t know if this a problem because my brain thinks differently because I am autistic, or maybe because of my PTSD, or what I am not doing to make the anxiety any better. And I have been using these skills for a number of years now. And am taking a refresher DBT course. But I still can’t figure out where I am going wrong. Because I feel as if this overly emotional piece of me is simultaneous to the logical piece of me. But that they are also disconnected from each other somehow. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Tara, thank you so much for these 2 videos. I really appreciated the great mix of theory and practice. Worry has been a part of my life for some time & I didn’t really recognise the anxiety for what it was for some time, it had become “normal”. I will practice these techniques with the breathing & some meditation and hopefully break this unhealthy cycle. Many thanks!
Now I see that as soon as one possible threat eases, I go full bore into the next one! Stopping to watch the feelings in body, and to offer comfort has been a big help. I’m always scanning the horizon, sure that one or another person or relationship will disappear, or worse, that I caused it. I’m experiencing times when I cannot remember what has really happened, that I am developing dementia. My doctor says it is a case of distraction.
I’m just about to move house I’ve have a teribble time worrying about everything from being scared in the new house to any crawling incect to someone breaking in when I’m there it’s all over the place I sometimes come to not wanting to move yet I’ve waited a desperate six years for this house which will give me a new lease of life yet the worries could make me loose out its awful I worry about upsetting my home that I’m in aswell cause I don’t like anything moved out of there place it brings on fear
Thank you for this tool. It was very simply explained and so simple to do. I wish I had known this tool to teach to my children when they were small. I hope to teach it now to my young clients.
My Son 29 yrs has suffered addiction since his father passed 8 years ago. I spent the first 3 years trying to save him exhausting all my financial resources. Now the last 5 years living with the pain and suffering of having an addict child/adult that I know has to do it for himself.
He’s been in jail in every State in Australia for drug related problems and behaviour. I’m still struggling with living with the loss of my son on a daily basis and the total feeling of helplessness!
I’m looking forward to getting the help and tools to assist me to move on with my life in a healthy happy min ull manner to enjoy my other children and my life! without guilt and pain!
Thank you so much. Being anxious about the future has always played a role in my life. To what end as the future plays out as it should and more often than not, what I thought would happen did not. All that energy in anxiety was a total waste. No I try to talk myself out of the worry, anxiousness and focus on what I know is happening now and what I know is planned for tomorrow. Anxiety has become a control tool and perhaps it could orginiate with old time Catholic teachings-so was anxious lest something be deemed wrong so it is cloaked in guilt. Ridiculous but there it is. Recognizing it and deliberately letting it go is freeing but is also work in my case.
I really enjoyed this. It so helps when someone can put into words what we do. I hope it is ok to share something that has really helped me. I have had success with using breathing to help with my anxiety. I can’t do this technique AND think my anxious thoughts at the same time. I breathe in to the count of four, hold my breath to the count of two and exhale to the count of six. You can use different numbers, just make sure the inhale and hold count is the same as the exhale count. All that counting stops the thinking. You just can’t do both at the same time.
I have spent over a decade slowly chipping away, crumbling piece by agonizing piece. Constant fear and pressure, waiting for the day when the levee breaks away. The tears run free with no chance of composure. Holding it in day after day pasting a smile on the outside. The inside is a wreck. I don’t know where to begin, if someone cared enough to ask the question, are you ok?
I worry about constantly about my kids – my relationship with them, their screen/device usage, where the world is heading for them. I fear that in the process I’m actually ruining any chance at a relationship with them and therefore am a failure.
thank you Tara
my mother worried, fear that i would fail or not do well,
i thought that was normal, what if, and to think of ways not to fail making fear worst.
i worried all my life and i didnt want to fail.
i couldnt go ahead therefor never finishing project or assignments without another push, or someone else finishing it for me.
Worrying is a terrible flaw with me. I try my best not to worry but I always fail.
If I could get some help from someone who doesn’t worry and who can guide me through I would sign up this minute, this day.
Anxiety is such a horrid feeling, stops me from eating, sleeping, increases my depression.
It literally disables me, no motivation, can’t start projects, I really just fall into such a dark place where I feel that there is no way out.
I’m scared to take medication.
This was such an amazing incentive, thank you so much for sharing.
Anxiety is such a horrid feeling, stops me from eating, sleeping, increases my depression.
It literally disables me, no motivation, can’t start projects, I really just fall into such a dark place where I feel that there is no way out.
This was such an amazing incentive, thank you so much for sharing.
I have been practicing with anxiety for years with positive results (I still have anxious feelings, but to a much lesser degree). However, since I’ve become older and begun to experience some new limitations, I’ve had an upsurge in anxiety and grief, and I find myself waking up with a sense of dread and helplessness. I’m finding it helpful to receive a fresh reminder of how to address it. Thank you, Tara.
I worry that people stigmatise me for being my authentic self. I feel ashamed of my feelings so I hide away. Then, as I am 67, I worry that I will be a sad lonely old man and I look forward to death’s release from life’s suffering.
I just went through getting a cancer diagnosis. During this three week ordeal, I did more damage to my body via my psyche than one can imagine. As a clinician who primarily treats folks with trauma, I worked diligently at “holding the reins” of my anxiety. Many of my efforts at mindfulness and breathing paid off…not every time, and there were hours where nothing I tried seem to work. Overall, I am grateful I have an awareness of my pattern of worry thoughts, how and where it manifests in my body, being able to be ok with sitting with the fear, and challenging the thoughts that threaten to take me down a rabbit hole that will only support me in anxiety and unrealistic worry. Thank you for the video. I’m looking forward to more.
Thank you for the gentle voice. I too have suffered with fear for most of my life. I have a good job yet constantly worry about losing it to a younger more energetic worker. I was sharing that with my counselor yesterday and was asked if I have any evidence that I should be concerned. There really is none yet it is constant. I will listen to these several times in order to get better grounded. Thank you
My fear thinking comes in the form of obsessing about what I am going to wear and the logistics of how I’m going to get to the event, parking, times etc. It’s all about being safe….
I have suffered with anxiety and I did seek counseling and i have learned tools to help me through my anxiety. I know most of my anxiety was learning to step out of my comfort zone. But I also learned from one counselor that you do not trust your self. That got me to thinking do I trust myself i thought that was odd. I found your comments very informative. Thank you
Wow, I’ve only watched a few minutes because I’m out of time right now, but those few minutes provide SO much amazing information!! Thank you, and I hope I can come back later to finish the video…
I’m 40 years old and I have suffered with a constant anxiety and fear of my past my future and what goes on in my every day Life . It’s crippling and so draining on me and my friends and family . I am engaged in my local mental health team which can be testing and frustrating at times . But this is because I want a quick fix when in reality I need to accept that I’m unwell and have been for a very long time . I self medicated , tried all kinds of meditation self help and attended a course on DBT skills . I’ve tried many medications and nothing seems to relieve my constant worry and fear . I’m tierd and very desperate to heal .
I have a lot of practice to do. These 3 steps are not easy for me. It will take a lot of effort on my part to be able to be mindful again. My generalized anxiety/ panic disorder is the worst it has been in years. I feel broken. And I feel that I need to heal, fix my brokenness. I will try these 3 steps over and over and over. I need to free myself of self doubt, and not being good enough. I am grateful for this video.
I have always as long as I can remember had the self-doubt that Tara describes. My hyper-sensitivity to possible threats, and my sense of hopelessness to meet them and survive, have been with me since childhood living with a parent with an anger problem. The idea of facing my life and problems fully exposed to my own vulnerability, as opposed to using something like worry to prevent me from seeing clearly, is frightening.
This practice is about connecting to inner strength that is always sitting calmly below the anxiety. Interesting that strength and vulnerability go hand in hand.
Thank you.
Thank you for your insight and knowledge. My parent are 92 and 93. I am house sitting their house until it is sold and taking care of their needs. They have just gone into a nursing home. My home is 900 kilometres away. My fear is that someone is going to break into their house. It has been robbed twice before and is out of town on acreage on a fairly busy road. I feel vulnerable and isolated. I have a light veil of fear over me all the time in their house. Not in my own. I’m totally content and relaxed in my own home but I’ve just spent 11 months in their’s with no end in sight. I’ve begun to feel every time I open the bathroom door that someone, a stranger, will be standing on the other side of the door. To lighten the fear, I sometimes open the door and say hello to the invisible person. The anxiety is building I know. I need to take control. Thanks. xS
Thank you for this video Tara, a reminder of what the possibilities of mindfulness can do for us – I was raised by a mother who was in ‘survival mode’, so I don’t really know what ‘thriving’ looks like. At the age of 58 I seem to have worried SO much about perceived threats that they have been manifested, though my thoughts and actions? As I age, the worrying increases as I become physically weaker through chronic illness and of course, as you say, the loop of mental anguish and physical exhaustion. I feel that these behaviours are SO chronic that I would have to physically remove myself from our Western society in order to make the drastic changes needed – however, I focus on my son now and assist him in anyway I can so he does not have to live a life of mental anguish and physical exhaustion.
Dear Tara, you said in another video that our cortisol rises in the morning just before we wake up, so we’ll be alert to any potential dangers. My mother always said that her worries slept at the end of her bed, and pounced on her as soon as she opened her eyes. As I age, I find that last half hour or so before the alarm goes off is particularly susceptible to anxious thoughts. Something that helps sometimes is to write down before bed, three things that made me happy that day. Still, I feel like I’m fighting biology here. 😉
I wake up most mornings shaking with a sick feeling in my stomach thinking that I have something severily wrong with my health. I am constantly thinking I have some debilitating health problem or that I’m dying and I am starting to give myself symptoms and I don’t know if it’s in my head or if. I’ve had quite a few tests done at the doctors office and they have come back fine and now they’re sending me to a neurologist.
From the moment l wake up it starts. It ismuch worse now lhave retired. I know low self esteme plays a major role in this. It is also part of this shy, quiet person issue l have. Depression also has a hand in it too. Its like all the boxes are ticked off for me. What do l worry about. What you got? You name it and l will worry and be anxious about it. I tried hypno therapy to no avail
A lifelong worrier. Having been through a testing time recently I’m struggling to reign in the anxiety. This has helped me realise my ‘addiction’ and given me something concrete to work with to help loosen my need for certainty and control.
I have had adrenaline rushing around my body for as long as I can remember. On the occasion that I notice it’s not there, I almost conjour it up. I have no idea how to completely stop it. I swing between addiction but currently have none I believe.
I’m not sure which came first ?. I feared everything as a child, as I got older it transcribed into worry and anxiety. I would worry about everything and everyone, the drinking got more often and a necessity to get it began for almost 40 years until I tried to end my life. I guess I was put on earth to help others and that is why I’m still alive today
Thank you. This helps me as I deal with a very difficult challenge before me. I know that regardless of the outcome I’ll be okay and I have to keep reminding myself of this.
I’m afraid of rejection. I’ve been rejected so many times before. My usually outgoing personality has been stumped.
In my new role I have some important work to do where I need to meet up with people and ask them to support me as I support them.
This is a great help to me I can see the value in it already, as I have just just practiced some of the exercises.
My next step is to go outside of my comfort zone and expand my circle of concern by approaching colleagues for mutual help and assistance.
I like this video thank you i use to do that with my patients but the 3 steps are very useful, actually anxiety is very common and those self help techniques give the patients a sense of autonomy.they have to be repeated to be efficient though ….
Claudy fom noumea
Thank you for sharing this amazing content for free. I have two of your books and they have been my “refuge” during the most painful part of my life. “True Refuge” in particular was a soothing balm on my soul when I was on fire. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You alway feature on my gratitude list. Sending you many thanks and much love. Monika.
It happens at night
So, I have been using mindfulness techniques for a long time. And on a logical level I am capable of daily rationalizing and realizing that my fears and anxieties are very unlikely to occur or aren’t even realistic at all. (Such as having a meltdown because medical transit didn’t show up at the exact time they told me. And fears over being hated or abandoned.) Get myself to do breathing techniques, sometimes yawn, feel the tightness in my throat and heart beating. try and focus on my body, listen to relaxing music etc. But even when I have done all of this. And have tried comforting myself, and telling myself it is ok to be anxious, I haven’t felt like (overall) I have really gone anywhere. Even though I know I feel better once I am out in public and socially engaged, and don’t even know why I worry about people staring or watching me, I still struggle to walk outside my apartment complex. With crippling fear of people are going to approach me / humiliate or try to harm me. I had another of this happen this evening. And I walked strait back home again after reaching the end of the complex. And then tried again after coming back home for a minute, and got myself to actually go to the store I wanted to go to. And once I got there and was talking to the cashier I felt just fine. And despite these anxieties I still go out and am open about everything in my life. There is what feels like this disconnection between my logical thought process, and this overwhelming and illogical anxiety. I know it doesn’t really make logical sense for me to be so worried. Yet, it is there anyway. I don’t trust anyone, yet I am completely open and talk all the time about everything. And I don’t know if this a problem because my brain thinks differently because I am autistic, or maybe because of my PTSD, or what I am not doing to make the anxiety any better. And I have been using these skills for a number of years now. And am taking a refresher DBT course. But I still can’t figure out where I am going wrong. Because I feel as if this overly emotional piece of me is simultaneous to the logical piece of me. But that they are also disconnected from each other somehow. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Fantastic content!
Thank you so much Tara.
Tara, thank you so much for these 2 videos. I really appreciated the great mix of theory and practice. Worry has been a part of my life for some time & I didn’t really recognise the anxiety for what it was for some time, it had become “normal”. I will practice these techniques with the breathing & some meditation and hopefully break this unhealthy cycle. Many thanks!
Absolutely fantastic ..spot on ???
Now I see that as soon as one possible threat eases, I go full bore into the next one! Stopping to watch the feelings in body, and to offer comfort has been a big help. I’m always scanning the horizon, sure that one or another person or relationship will disappear, or worse, that I caused it. I’m experiencing times when I cannot remember what has really happened, that I am developing dementia. My doctor says it is a case of distraction.
I’m just about to move house I’ve have a teribble time worrying about everything from being scared in the new house to any crawling incect to someone breaking in when I’m there it’s all over the place I sometimes come to not wanting to move yet I’ve waited a desperate six years for this house which will give me a new lease of life yet the worries could make me loose out its awful I worry about upsetting my home that I’m in aswell cause I don’t like anything moved out of there place it brings on fear
Thank you for this tool. It was very simply explained and so simple to do. I wish I had known this tool to teach to my children when they were small. I hope to teach it now to my young clients.
When things seem quiet or are going well…I wonder what will go wrong. I fear the next bad thing….
My Son 29 yrs has suffered addiction since his father passed 8 years ago. I spent the first 3 years trying to save him exhausting all my financial resources. Now the last 5 years living with the pain and suffering of having an addict child/adult that I know has to do it for himself.
He’s been in jail in every State in Australia for drug related problems and behaviour. I’m still struggling with living with the loss of my son on a daily basis and the total feeling of helplessness!
I’m looking forward to getting the help and tools to assist me to move on with my life in a healthy happy min ull manner to enjoy my other children and my life! without guilt and pain!
I have recently been diagnosed with anxiety I find it controlling my life. Every time something happens bbn I feel my anxiety getting stronger
Thank you so much. Being anxious about the future has always played a role in my life. To what end as the future plays out as it should and more often than not, what I thought would happen did not. All that energy in anxiety was a total waste. No I try to talk myself out of the worry, anxiousness and focus on what I know is happening now and what I know is planned for tomorrow. Anxiety has become a control tool and perhaps it could orginiate with old time Catholic teachings-so was anxious lest something be deemed wrong so it is cloaked in guilt. Ridiculous but there it is. Recognizing it and deliberately letting it go is freeing but is also work in my case.
I really enjoyed this. It so helps when someone can put into words what we do. I hope it is ok to share something that has really helped me. I have had success with using breathing to help with my anxiety. I can’t do this technique AND think my anxious thoughts at the same time. I breathe in to the count of four, hold my breath to the count of two and exhale to the count of six. You can use different numbers, just make sure the inhale and hold count is the same as the exhale count. All that counting stops the thinking. You just can’t do both at the same time.
This is a great 3 step program that I will use in my practice. Thank you
I have spent over a decade slowly chipping away, crumbling piece by agonizing piece. Constant fear and pressure, waiting for the day when the levee breaks away. The tears run free with no chance of composure. Holding it in day after day pasting a smile on the outside. The inside is a wreck. I don’t know where to begin, if someone cared enough to ask the question, are you ok?
I worry about constantly about my kids – my relationship with them, their screen/device usage, where the world is heading for them. I fear that in the process I’m actually ruining any chance at a relationship with them and therefore am a failure.
thank you Tara
my mother worried, fear that i would fail or not do well,
i thought that was normal, what if, and to think of ways not to fail making fear worst.
i worried all my life and i didnt want to fail.
i couldnt go ahead therefor never finishing project or assignments without another push, or someone else finishing it for me.
Worrying is a terrible flaw with me. I try my best not to worry but I always fail.
If I could get some help from someone who doesn’t worry and who can guide me through I would sign up this minute, this day.
Anxiety is such a horrid feeling, stops me from eating, sleeping, increases my depression.
It literally disables me, no motivation, can’t start projects, I really just fall into such a dark place where I feel that there is no way out.
I’m scared to take medication.
This was such an amazing incentive, thank you so much for sharing.
Anxiety is such a horrid feeling, stops me from eating, sleeping, increases my depression.
It literally disables me, no motivation, can’t start projects, I really just fall into such a dark place where I feel that there is no way out.
This was such an amazing incentive, thank you so much for sharing.
I have been practicing with anxiety for years with positive results (I still have anxious feelings, but to a much lesser degree). However, since I’ve become older and begun to experience some new limitations, I’ve had an upsurge in anxiety and grief, and I find myself waking up with a sense of dread and helplessness. I’m finding it helpful to receive a fresh reminder of how to address it. Thank you, Tara.
I worry that people stigmatise me for being my authentic self. I feel ashamed of my feelings so I hide away. Then, as I am 67, I worry that I will be a sad lonely old man and I look forward to death’s release from life’s suffering.
Fantastic interventionTara-thank you for sharing!
I just went through getting a cancer diagnosis. During this three week ordeal, I did more damage to my body via my psyche than one can imagine. As a clinician who primarily treats folks with trauma, I worked diligently at “holding the reins” of my anxiety. Many of my efforts at mindfulness and breathing paid off…not every time, and there were hours where nothing I tried seem to work. Overall, I am grateful I have an awareness of my pattern of worry thoughts, how and where it manifests in my body, being able to be ok with sitting with the fear, and challenging the thoughts that threaten to take me down a rabbit hole that will only support me in anxiety and unrealistic worry. Thank you for the video. I’m looking forward to more.
Thank you for the gentle voice. I too have suffered with fear for most of my life. I have a good job yet constantly worry about losing it to a younger more energetic worker. I was sharing that with my counselor yesterday and was asked if I have any evidence that I should be concerned. There really is none yet it is constant. I will listen to these several times in order to get better grounded. Thank you
It is constant no matter the situation.
My fear thinking comes in the form of obsessing about what I am going to wear and the logistics of how I’m going to get to the event, parking, times etc. It’s all about being safe….
I have suffered with anxiety and I did seek counseling and i have learned tools to help me through my anxiety. I know most of my anxiety was learning to step out of my comfort zone. But I also learned from one counselor that you do not trust your self. That got me to thinking do I trust myself i thought that was odd. I found your comments very informative. Thank you
This has given me a new perspective to helping staff via supervision. This is a great website. Thanks
Wow, I’ve only watched a few minutes because I’m out of time right now, but those few minutes provide SO much amazing information!! Thank you, and I hope I can come back later to finish the video…
Thank you. This was very beneficial.
I’m 40 years old and I have suffered with a constant anxiety and fear of my past my future and what goes on in my every day Life . It’s crippling and so draining on me and my friends and family . I am engaged in my local mental health team which can be testing and frustrating at times . But this is because I want a quick fix when in reality I need to accept that I’m unwell and have been for a very long time . I self medicated , tried all kinds of meditation self help and attended a course on DBT skills . I’ve tried many medications and nothing seems to relieve my constant worry and fear . I’m tierd and very desperate to heal .
I have a lot of practice to do. These 3 steps are not easy for me. It will take a lot of effort on my part to be able to be mindful again. My generalized anxiety/ panic disorder is the worst it has been in years. I feel broken. And I feel that I need to heal, fix my brokenness. I will try these 3 steps over and over and over. I need to free myself of self doubt, and not being good enough. I am grateful for this video.
I have always as long as I can remember had the self-doubt that Tara describes. My hyper-sensitivity to possible threats, and my sense of hopelessness to meet them and survive, have been with me since childhood living with a parent with an anger problem. The idea of facing my life and problems fully exposed to my own vulnerability, as opposed to using something like worry to prevent me from seeing clearly, is frightening.
This practice is about connecting to inner strength that is always sitting calmly below the anxiety. Interesting that strength and vulnerability go hand in hand.
Thank you.
Thank you for your insight and knowledge. My parent are 92 and 93. I am house sitting their house until it is sold and taking care of their needs. They have just gone into a nursing home. My home is 900 kilometres away. My fear is that someone is going to break into their house. It has been robbed twice before and is out of town on acreage on a fairly busy road. I feel vulnerable and isolated. I have a light veil of fear over me all the time in their house. Not in my own. I’m totally content and relaxed in my own home but I’ve just spent 11 months in their’s with no end in sight. I’ve begun to feel every time I open the bathroom door that someone, a stranger, will be standing on the other side of the door. To lighten the fear, I sometimes open the door and say hello to the invisible person. The anxiety is building I know. I need to take control. Thanks. xS
Thank you for this video Tara, a reminder of what the possibilities of mindfulness can do for us – I was raised by a mother who was in ‘survival mode’, so I don’t really know what ‘thriving’ looks like. At the age of 58 I seem to have worried SO much about perceived threats that they have been manifested, though my thoughts and actions? As I age, the worrying increases as I become physically weaker through chronic illness and of course, as you say, the loop of mental anguish and physical exhaustion. I feel that these behaviours are SO chronic that I would have to physically remove myself from our Western society in order to make the drastic changes needed – however, I focus on my son now and assist him in anyway I can so he does not have to live a life of mental anguish and physical exhaustion.
Thank you so much for helping me to understand
Dear Tara, you said in another video that our cortisol rises in the morning just before we wake up, so we’ll be alert to any potential dangers. My mother always said that her worries slept at the end of her bed, and pounced on her as soon as she opened her eyes. As I age, I find that last half hour or so before the alarm goes off is particularly susceptible to anxious thoughts. Something that helps sometimes is to write down before bed, three things that made me happy that day. Still, I feel like I’m fighting biology here. 😉
I wake up most mornings shaking with a sick feeling in my stomach thinking that I have something severily wrong with my health. I am constantly thinking I have some debilitating health problem or that I’m dying and I am starting to give myself symptoms and I don’t know if it’s in my head or if. I’ve had quite a few tests done at the doctors office and they have come back fine and now they’re sending me to a neurologist.
From the moment l wake up it starts. It ismuch worse now lhave retired. I know low self esteme plays a major role in this. It is also part of this shy, quiet person issue l have. Depression also has a hand in it too. Its like all the boxes are ticked off for me. What do l worry about. What you got? You name it and l will worry and be anxious about it. I tried hypno therapy to no avail
A lifelong worrier. Having been through a testing time recently I’m struggling to reign in the anxiety. This has helped me realise my ‘addiction’ and given me something concrete to work with to help loosen my need for certainty and control.
This was great . Helps me understand my negative thinking but I do mindfulness which Is a great benefit
I have had adrenaline rushing around my body for as long as I can remember. On the occasion that I notice it’s not there, I almost conjour it up. I have no idea how to completely stop it. I swing between addiction but currently have none I believe.
I’m not sure which came first ?. I feared everything as a child, as I got older it transcribed into worry and anxiety. I would worry about everything and everyone, the drinking got more often and a necessity to get it began for almost 40 years until I tried to end my life. I guess I was put on earth to help others and that is why I’m still alive today
Thanks for the reminders of how to slow down and do what is possible in the present!
Thank you. This helps me as I deal with a very difficult challenge before me. I know that regardless of the outcome I’ll be okay and I have to keep reminding myself of this.