What's your relationship with your anxiety disorder?

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  • Shalindria - 10 years ago

    My anxiety helps be get things done. When I feel revved up I tend to do more, accomplish more. But, panic attacks are horrible, so I guess I like my anxiety in small doses.

  • Mireya Penagos - 12 years ago

    I think anxiety was a positive thing for me as I grew in a very agressive environment, changing all the time, so I learnes to be vigilant of all the outside signs that something "dangerous" for me was going to appear, the agressive comments of my parents, or something with the potentially of causing distress in me or in my family.
    Now, I live a rather pleasent life, I think, no more alcoholic parents or environment but I still have this hipevigilant actitude that transforms in anxiety at any time, so, now it is not as usefull as it was at one time, now I am in a freinds party and I can start to be anxious and afraid, and I try to observe the environment that surrounds me to lowdown the anxiety, it takes a lot of energy and time, so, sometimes, pleasent things can be tiresome and scaring situations.
    I hope that in time this anxiety will desappear or at least, diminish.
    Thank you for hear us.

  • Jan Varnes - 12 years ago

    Great poll. It is a great thing to have a question about your condition out of the blue to see how you really are feeling about it. Honestly, my condition has become much worse since the Mortgage Bust, people do not even realize what is happening to them as the phone rings five to six times a day, threats that are idle, but constant. Seriously without a doubt we must take care of ourselves on a daily by checking in with our feelings, (happy, sad, mad) the ones you need to really think about to identify.

    I am sure that my sensitivity has cost me a few friends, maybe saved a few lives, and pushed me to other routes for getting somewhere only to find out later of a terrible accident at almost the precise time I would have been in the area. So, anxiety is like a kind of intuition, but once it is out of control and I am too deep into my own spinning, it is really hard to stop it without taking to someone about it. Even writing online chat or journal can sometimes stop me from feeling like I am in serious danger, or fear that I might pass out or begin to cry without the ability to cease. I am not yet able to self sooth on "Q". It has taken many years to identify why I became nauseated at 4PM daily at a very stressful job. After I left my job to move on it was not a 4PM thing but it is definitely stress related . Or the inability to handle the stress begins much sooner in the day like 1 or 2 PM.

    That is journal or a sheet you can keep track. Anyone with this condition should see what or whom may be bringing on the feeling. I learned I had to stay clear of certain people until I realized what was causing it. Here again is that intuition of something hidden and later divulged and the anxiety around this person or people would go away.

    Thanks for the topic....! I needed to answer as I am now breathing normally. It works.

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