Anxiety

[girl_dee]

Being away from the exit is a concern....

Mistly i feel like the air is being sucked out of the building

Today i have to go to a bug building and deal with US Customs....

Of course i hardly slept a wink

[Apocalipstic]

I've been working on making sure my home and work environments stew not stressing me put. I've been very anxious this spring. Burning. But I'm taking steps to make it better.

I don't always take care of myself. With a lot of help and encouragement I'm trying to do that.

Glad you are doing Nat!

Dee, that sounds way stressful! I hope all goes smoothly.

[starryeyes]

I have always suffered from anxiety but haven't tried to medicate it yet. I always have the "feeling of impending doom" and have visuals of my house burning up with my dogs inside because I left something on, or other things in that genre. Ugh, I hate it.

I also have social anxiety, which is weird because I am a professional communicator and it doesn't affect me at work at all, in fact people know me as super friendly and social and I am always the get-together planner, event coordinator, speaker at events, etc. I feel most comfortable when I have a role or a duty to fulfill.

If I don't, and have to go into a new situation or around people I am not comfortable around, ugh it sucks. But I hold it all inside and I don't let it show, which might manifest it more, who knows.

I need a psychiatrist. Haha.

[Queenie]

I use to have awful social anxiety. It was so fucking painful! But over the years I grew out of it. I think what really helped was me moving to london and starting new in a new place with my then soon to be husband. Funny thing is, now I will talk to anyone. I just dont give a crap any longer.

I have anxiety when it comes to the bloody phone tho. Its not with talking to the person on the other end. It's dialing the number. It's like a mental block that makes me unable to punch the numbers into the fucking phone! It is starting to really bug the crap out of me!

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Apocalipstic

I've been working on making sure my home and work environments stew not stressing me put. I've been very anxious this spring. Burning. But I'm taking steps to make it better.

I don't always take care of myself. With a lot of help and encouragement I'm trying to do that.

Glad you are doing Nat!

Dee, that sounds way stressful! I hope all goes smoothly.

Apparently i was stressing by the look of all those typos,,

i did good and it was quick,,

[Medusa]

I think that identifying your stressors is probably the most helpful thing you can do (at least that has worked for me!). While I don't have terrible anxiety, I do get really stressed out when I feel like I'm losing daylight on projects or my never-ending to-do list.
Knowing this, I will do very simple things like prioritize things with these kinds of categories: things that MUST be done, things I'd like to get done, things that I probably think are important but that really aren't in the grand scheme of things, and things that I can do to help me accomplish the bigger items on my lists.

It's a simple strategy but it works for me.

[Apocalipstic]

I've started listening to meditations on audio dharma when I am anxious. Seems to help.

After a recent move, home situation is better than it has been in years. Work, a work in progress. Lol.

[Bad_boi]

Mediation helps my anxiety a lot. I have had since I was a kid.

I made a thread here if anyone wants to check it out or give feedback.
http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...ead.php?t=6875

[Gayandgray]

I’ve been researching online and talked to my doctor, and I started taking 600mg of L-Theanine daily. It has helped my anxiety so much! I really feel a lot calmer with day to day things and I don’t panic as much over little things. I take 2 pills in the morning as soon as I get up, 2 mid-afternoon, and 2 at bedtime.