mico
18-11-04, 14:34
Hello peeps and peepettes
Sorry, but I'm probably going to go off on one again and write yet another post that doesn't make any sense [:P], but this one does have a positive side to it (I think). :)
Recently I've been struggling with my anxiety a little. I posted a topic a couple of weeks ago about my lack of motivation etc, which still relates to how I'm feeling now, and I appreciate the help I got then but I'm stil;l feeling a little stuck. Usually I'm very positive (or at least try to be :D) but I'm finding it a little difficult at the moment, it seems the further you get the more complex it gets, or at least my thoughts are making it more complex. It may sound strange, but at one time my anxiety appeared to be fairly simple, difficult, but simple. Over the past year, my anxiety (GAD mostly) has appeared much more unpredictable, confusing, frustrating, etc, etc. Sometimes I do what I think are the right things to overcome it and they send me backwards, I do the wrong things and they send me forwards! What's going on? Actually don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question. But I'm certainly a little bewildered by the whole experience, so I thought it was time for some new ideas, maybe update my inventory and go purchase myself some new weaponry to defeat the Panic Monster.
I know there is a page on the main site with book recommendations and such, but I feel I have read most of the basic self help books, or at least grasped the concept of what they are trying to say. The basics I got through a long time ago, I feel I'd like to read something deeper. Actually, to be perfectly honest, I don't know what I want to read (here I go again, you guys will be tempted to give me one of these [B)]). I just feel like I need a new train of thought, a new direction, anything, as long as it's new and provokes a new train of thought. I just need some extra guidance at the moment.
So, my question is: Read any good books lately?
Preferably I'm talking about something a little more than your average 'you need to relax, expand your comfort zone, etc' self help books. But anything really that you guys have found to be a big help, even something that just simply inspires, a little inpsiration can go a long way.
Any ideas? What's the biggest tool in your inventory?
mico
Sorry, but I'm probably going to go off on one again and write yet another post that doesn't make any sense [:P], but this one does have a positive side to it (I think). :)
Recently I've been struggling with my anxiety a little. I posted a topic a couple of weeks ago about my lack of motivation etc, which still relates to how I'm feeling now, and I appreciate the help I got then but I'm stil;l feeling a little stuck. Usually I'm very positive (or at least try to be :D) but I'm finding it a little difficult at the moment, it seems the further you get the more complex it gets, or at least my thoughts are making it more complex. It may sound strange, but at one time my anxiety appeared to be fairly simple, difficult, but simple. Over the past year, my anxiety (GAD mostly) has appeared much more unpredictable, confusing, frustrating, etc, etc. Sometimes I do what I think are the right things to overcome it and they send me backwards, I do the wrong things and they send me forwards! What's going on? Actually don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question. But I'm certainly a little bewildered by the whole experience, so I thought it was time for some new ideas, maybe update my inventory and go purchase myself some new weaponry to defeat the Panic Monster.
I know there is a page on the main site with book recommendations and such, but I feel I have read most of the basic self help books, or at least grasped the concept of what they are trying to say. The basics I got through a long time ago, I feel I'd like to read something deeper. Actually, to be perfectly honest, I don't know what I want to read (here I go again, you guys will be tempted to give me one of these [B)]). I just feel like I need a new train of thought, a new direction, anything, as long as it's new and provokes a new train of thought. I just need some extra guidance at the moment.
So, my question is: Read any good books lately?
Preferably I'm talking about something a little more than your average 'you need to relax, expand your comfort zone, etc' self help books. But anything really that you guys have found to be a big help, even something that just simply inspires, a little inpsiration can go a long way.
Any ideas? What's the biggest tool in your inventory?
mico