Dan21
22-01-07, 11:33
Does anyone else find one of the biggest difficulties is the realisation that your mind can cause physical symptoms, and so many? Throughout the entirety of my Health Anxiety experiences, I still find it almost impossible to accept that my subconscious can affect me in such a profound way.
Lately I’ve been feeling all sorts of symptoms, it’s like they have had a reunion and nothing I say or do can stop me feeling this way. I was talking with a friend who is aware of my anxiety and how much I worry and he pointed out to me that I have had to deal with a number of issues over the last 18 months that most people deal with over a number of years. Getting married, my Dad dying, moving house, being viciously bullied at work by management, leaving work and returning to full time education, finding out I’m going to be a father as well as all the other bits of stress that come along. My friend pointed out that I’m not giving myself chance to come to terms with everything that has happened. I’m not acknowledging the scale of everything and that I’m struggling to deal with it all.
My anxiety has gone of the scale after finding out my wife is pregnant and I cant get the feeling out of my head that something terrible is just around the corner. I find it almost impossible to accept that my life (our life, my wife and I) could have something good in store as whenever I have dared to believe this lately, something awful has happened. If I’m honest, it feels like I have forgotten how to think positively or even believe that the rest of my life isn’t peppered with hard times.
Lately I’ve been feeling so tired, achy, dizzy and my anxiety is creating all sorts of horrible thoughts in my head. I’m pretty convinced that there is something wrong with me or lurking just below the surface. I really don’t want to have to deal with these sorts of thoughts and feeling for the rest of my life. It’s as if I have lost all sense of perspective in my life and don’t know how to discern the anxiety and related thoughts from what is really happening in my life.
Any advice at this moment would be very gratefully received
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I want to go up to my anxiety, smile, put my arm around it and say to it caringly, 'Hey! How are you? How's your day been?'
Then, just as its about to answer me, I wanna throw a sack over it and give it a hiding within an inch of its life.
That would be nice.
Lately I’ve been feeling all sorts of symptoms, it’s like they have had a reunion and nothing I say or do can stop me feeling this way. I was talking with a friend who is aware of my anxiety and how much I worry and he pointed out to me that I have had to deal with a number of issues over the last 18 months that most people deal with over a number of years. Getting married, my Dad dying, moving house, being viciously bullied at work by management, leaving work and returning to full time education, finding out I’m going to be a father as well as all the other bits of stress that come along. My friend pointed out that I’m not giving myself chance to come to terms with everything that has happened. I’m not acknowledging the scale of everything and that I’m struggling to deal with it all.
My anxiety has gone of the scale after finding out my wife is pregnant and I cant get the feeling out of my head that something terrible is just around the corner. I find it almost impossible to accept that my life (our life, my wife and I) could have something good in store as whenever I have dared to believe this lately, something awful has happened. If I’m honest, it feels like I have forgotten how to think positively or even believe that the rest of my life isn’t peppered with hard times.
Lately I’ve been feeling so tired, achy, dizzy and my anxiety is creating all sorts of horrible thoughts in my head. I’m pretty convinced that there is something wrong with me or lurking just below the surface. I really don’t want to have to deal with these sorts of thoughts and feeling for the rest of my life. It’s as if I have lost all sense of perspective in my life and don’t know how to discern the anxiety and related thoughts from what is really happening in my life.
Any advice at this moment would be very gratefully received
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I want to go up to my anxiety, smile, put my arm around it and say to it caringly, 'Hey! How are you? How's your day been?'
Then, just as its about to answer me, I wanna throw a sack over it and give it a hiding within an inch of its life.
That would be nice.