What do you do when your "safe" place is causing anxiety?

[Bluebelle]

Any suggestions?

Ordinarily I feel fairly comfortable in my home-okay I still freak out that someone might knock on my door but that is something else entirely!

Suddenly my home is not the safe haven it used to be -I feel stress and anxiety .

It is awful ! Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for reading

[Tyke]

Hi Bluebelle

I have had really bad anxiety where I have felt anxious everywhere. Some places less than others, but nowhere entirely safe. I have been helped by medication (I am on Sertraline an anti-depressant and Propranolol, a beta blocker) and other things such as relaxation tapes and exercise. I have also found keeping myself occupied with something as much as possible is a good help. I also found it helpful to push myself to do things I was afraid of as that seemed to reduce my general sense of anxiety over time.

Tyke