LiveAboveIt
18-11-16, 02:51
Hello everyone,
I've been doing much better for awhile now. The only issue that seems to be resurfacing that I never dealt with, is this weird over-awareness of my thoughts/thoughts about the anxiety. It causes severe panic and stress and I'm not sure why. Once the thoughts about the anxiety, or the fear of the anxiety enters my head, I begin to panic that it's all I will be able to think about. I can watch my mind trying to decipher or find a solution to this, which just prompts even more anxiety because I can't seem to control it.
This all seems to just snowball into the idea that I can't control my thoughts and I will spend the rest of my life thinking about my anxiety and feeling like I'm stuck in some weird thought purgatory.. Regardless, it all comes down to being over aware of my thought process and the fact that I am thinking.. I've read that this is sort of an anxiety/OCD trait, mindfulness hijacked?
Has anyone else suffered with this? What are some methods or forms of therapy that I can use to conquer this issue? I get into arguments in my head about it, because I've been told that the more you fight/fear a thought, the more frequently and intensely it will come.. But I've also been told that you can thought stop and all that.. I just don't know what the right answer is and I'm just stuck in an endless loop.
I've been doing much better for awhile now. The only issue that seems to be resurfacing that I never dealt with, is this weird over-awareness of my thoughts/thoughts about the anxiety. It causes severe panic and stress and I'm not sure why. Once the thoughts about the anxiety, or the fear of the anxiety enters my head, I begin to panic that it's all I will be able to think about. I can watch my mind trying to decipher or find a solution to this, which just prompts even more anxiety because I can't seem to control it.
This all seems to just snowball into the idea that I can't control my thoughts and I will spend the rest of my life thinking about my anxiety and feeling like I'm stuck in some weird thought purgatory.. Regardless, it all comes down to being over aware of my thought process and the fact that I am thinking.. I've read that this is sort of an anxiety/OCD trait, mindfulness hijacked?
Has anyone else suffered with this? What are some methods or forms of therapy that I can use to conquer this issue? I get into arguments in my head about it, because I've been told that the more you fight/fear a thought, the more frequently and intensely it will come.. But I've also been told that you can thought stop and all that.. I just don't know what the right answer is and I'm just stuck in an endless loop.