nikitarosine
12-05-11, 20:35
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001936/
I posted this link because it sounds like me to the 'T'. I don't have panic attacks. I don't have OCD.
But I get so overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and fears of failure or looking bad that I collapse in on myself like a dying star.....meaning I get so fatigued that I find it difficult to move....and I watch the same shows obsessively on my laptop to assuage the low level feeling of panic.
I was a secondary teacher but I couldn't cope with the stress and now I'm starting my own business/looking for work. I've quit teaching. I was doing so well and yesterday an email - just an email - and a polite one at that - sent me into this anxious rumitive ridiculousness.
Sometimes I feel like all of my intelligence, creativity, and good will is rotting inside my body.....growing inert as each day goes by because I so often become plagued by anxious feelings of embarrassing failure.
It used to be worse. My husband thinks I'm the bees knees so that helps. And I have a loving community of people on my side. But I need strategies for dealing with this because I have to work and make money, you know?
Thanks for listening:-)
I posted this link because it sounds like me to the 'T'. I don't have panic attacks. I don't have OCD.
But I get so overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and fears of failure or looking bad that I collapse in on myself like a dying star.....meaning I get so fatigued that I find it difficult to move....and I watch the same shows obsessively on my laptop to assuage the low level feeling of panic.
I was a secondary teacher but I couldn't cope with the stress and now I'm starting my own business/looking for work. I've quit teaching. I was doing so well and yesterday an email - just an email - and a polite one at that - sent me into this anxious rumitive ridiculousness.
Sometimes I feel like all of my intelligence, creativity, and good will is rotting inside my body.....growing inert as each day goes by because I so often become plagued by anxious feelings of embarrassing failure.
It used to be worse. My husband thinks I'm the bees knees so that helps. And I have a loving community of people on my side. But I need strategies for dealing with this because I have to work and make money, you know?
Thanks for listening:-)