Increasingly waking up with #anxiety. Went online for solutions. Breathing exercises. (Don’t do nearly enough.) Get more sleep. (Interrupted by anxiety!) Drink enough water. (I do.) Improve gut health/flora. (NHS has mucked me around for over a decade now re increasingly debilitating gut/allergy conditions. No help whatsoever.)
It’s a lovely morning outside. I just wish my physical self wasn’t blocking my mental self from seeing it. :/ ☀️
Having a crippling anxiety today. Level: Unbearable. I don't fucking know what causes it this time either. I have not been reading any news, commercial social media or anything, just been home and trying to breathe. Wtf... h e l p... #GAD#Anxiety#MentalHealth
Just got a panic attack and during/after it drawed my anxiety I call Möykky (a blob/knot/gob).
It is hard for me to breathe when Möykky grows big enough. He prevents me from enjoying anything and makes me suffer great amount of mental pain. He suffocates me and doesn't seem to let go. If it gets bad enough no amount of excercise, walking around, breathing or doing will do. Only tears and panic help me a bit.
The circles mean he can grow and shrink, but it's really rare he fully goes away. I'm happy when he is tiny as an insect. His left hand present everything evil in this world. He has a infinity cloak which is his superpower, it brings him back no matter what I do.
Exposing him via this drawing brought me some comfort. He is smaller again.
Mastodon really has helped me with my anxiety and this is not the only occasion. Thank you so much. You are important. You matter. A tiniest kind comment can make someone's day like mine. :bunhdheart: #Anxiety#GAD#MentalHealth
What are we doing to our children that around 28% are avoiding #school due to #anxiety?
We pressurise children more & more, make #education a test-based, inflexible activity, stress out those delivering it & then expose them to all sorts of sh*t on #socialmedia..... and then tell them to fail at school is to fail at life.
I've known a lot of people with #anxiety so I've given some thought about what I have that they don't and I think it's the ability to think about something else.
I could be getting attacked by a bear and still find my happy place and get eaten in peace.
I've been talking to a lot of folks lately about #anxiety - many are shocked to know how anxious I am.
"But you're such a natural at social events."
"You're so confident on the podcast."
"You organise and run so many events - you can't be anxious."
"You're such an extrovert."
It shocks me to hear that people see me like that because it is so far from the truth.
At every social event I am still anxious. I run through planned sentences and conversation topics on the way and while there. I am constantly considering if I'm "peopling right." And I am totally exhausted every single time.
The difference between me now and me when I was too anxious to go out of my house is that now I choose to do it anyway. My mantra, after a lot of therapy, has become "do it afraid."
So I fake it. And it seems I fake it so well many of you think I'm super confident and have no anxiety at all. If you saw the crash after any social event you may think differently.
You don't have to be confident. You don't have to "get over" your anxiety. You just have to find ways to do what you want to do anyway.
Lately, I struggled with #depression, #ADHD, #autismburnout symptoms and a worsening #anxiety. I really liked my job and the people there, but after one month of sick leave, I was going back to hand out my demission. As always, when I wasn't let go because of said sick leaves.
For those with #MECFS, do you find yourself struggling with #Depression and/or #Anxiety since becoming ill, especially if it seems different from depression and/or anxiety that you experienced prior to becoming ill? If so, how are you managing your depression/anxiety? Have medications helped? Are you using non-medication approaches that work? @mecfs
#Today I'm going to pick up my glasses...I got my bus pass activated, I know the approximate time that I need start walking to the bus stop, sunscreen for the walk home applied. I've picked out a metal music playlist on Tidal for my journey back home. Everything but my nerves are ready for this little journey.
For years I hesitated to use the bus system here, #anxiety was wracking my brain. Technology is making me comfortable with the idea enough to try.
Bus is due in 10 minutes.
Time to get wrapped up to go out in this rain. #Anxiety is kicking in, but needs must since the nephew decided to use all the milk, and for everyones safety, I'm not going without coffee.
I should be home by 10.30.
Wish me luck!
The best way for me to avoid anxiety at work is to not fall behind where anxiety is waiting to get me. Procrastination is the mainspring of my anxieties and has always been my greatest struggle.
It's why I tell myself every morning before work that 'we're going to get after it today'. A reminder of what I have to do.
I had a good evening at the jazz last night, I just lied a lot when people asked me how I was. And I slept OK but I feel sick with anxiety this morning for NO REASON. My supervisors are being supportive so I don’t need to worry about PhD stuff. I don’t need to do anything I don’t want to today. Yet still I can’t swallow. I’ll go for a run once my grocery delivery has been, that might help #running#anxiety