Yeah, that's what it does. Facing it isn't magically going to make it better. It will make it worse for probably months, until it gets better.
You have to be willing to power through!
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Yeah, that's what it does. Facing it isn't magically going to make it better. It will make it worse for probably months, until it gets better.
You have to be willing to power through!
The recovery is in the still feeling the feelings and thoughts but still doing the action 'going outside for a cigarette' anyway. Until you do it and it doesn't affect you. This can take many times over a period of time but sometimes it works quickly. Don't think about the action pre going, just say to yourself "I'm going for a smoke" and do it.
That link that Mr Polite posted is Wonderbro" and he is often come by when you search for Claire Weekes because he follows her knowledge but puts it in a more simple fashion. I think he is a good choice if you wanted guidance and are in a position to be able to watch and listen. I understand that sometimes that is not possible because the mind is just too busy.
Quietening the mind is so difficult and sometimes impossible and the harder you try, the more it bangs away. You just have to try to do things anyway, a little here and there. Regular eating, lots of fluids, maybe change your routine because your brain has got into a habit of thinking the same way every day. Change the routine and you open up change in the brain and that gives you an opportunity to change those thoughts.
Ok this might be a stupid idea but you can’t avoid looking at the sky and going outside for ever you know you have to expose yourself to it to get rid of the anxiety. So maybe you could turn it into something fun to help normalise it again. Like find patterns in the clouds that look like things or when it’s dark look for the brightest stars you can find? Just a thought but would probably be difficult with it being so cloudy at the moment though.
Yeah, I’m not expecting it to instantly take away the anxiety, it’s just the reaction makes the anxiety grow, obviously making me worse and the anxiety around it even greater.
This, https://www.dpmanual.com/articles/de...ious-thoughts/, describes exactly how the thoughts come and how they feel. I’m in real trouble I think.
I have taken the suggestions and am trying to implement the ones I can, constantly. :shrug:
What make you think I’m not?
I only posted that link because I’ve spent ages trying to explain how weird and scary these feelings and thoughts are and then found an article (I wasn’t even googling for hours, it was an article under the second video I watched), which outlines it perfectly. I have been trying lots of things people have suggested.
I’ve been quiet because I tried to leave it all alone and get on with living, but it hasn’t helped, and these existential thoughts have completely taken over me.
I hope everyone is okay.
I presumed that was the reason for your absence lionman. Sometimes it helps but rarely it solves the issues.