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Originally Posted by eskielover
DBT has a section called Distress Tolerance. It teaches skills that allow for distancing from the anxiety to get one's mind off it for short times. Like for me it was watching a movie on my computer or taking a hot shower or cleaning my house or wirkibg on a craft project. Anything that took my mind iff of building up the anxiety to a higher level by focusibg in it continuosly.
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Does it include strategies to allow you to revisit the source of an anxiety - for long enough to deal with any 'must deal with' requirements associated with it? How do you avoid total avoidance?
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Originally Posted by eskielover
Some people do breathing but that never worked for me. The mind can not focus on 2 things at the same time. Just like a computer it can only time share....a computer gives time slices when multiple processes are being done....our mind works the same way so when we give a time slice to another activity that requires our focus it gives less time to think on what our anxuety could normally build up.
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I think I've read some your posts where you mentioned having a computer engineering background - it's not often that the concept of CPU time slice comes up in conversation! (It could be argued that the human brain is closer to a multi-core/parallel CPU system, although the conscious experience part of it does seem to be closer to a traditional single CPU setup.)
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Originally Posted by xmascarol
I do but some people tell me I shouldnt be anxious,I cant help it.I was never this way when my late husband was alive we had an enclosed porch and whenever it would storm we would sit out there and watch them,i guess being alone it just scares me more,there are people all around me I wish someone could be with me whenever a storm comes but I also know that is not possible, I know it is because I am alone and I worry what if something happens.When I first moved into these apt 8 years ago we had a major hurricane lost power for like 12 days,I felt so losts.We do have a generator, still whenever I see that awful lightening ,it always seems to make me jump.The only way I can feel safe is if I lay down and close my eyes and pray.I have some friends that fear it even more then I do.When I told my land lady I was scared she just laughed at me,she is a witch anyway.
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Sometimes, people's lack of empathy can by really annoying... An anxiety can be so easily amplified by a change/combination of circumstances - do you have any keepsake from the time you shared the experience of lightning under the enclosed porch? Carrying such a keepsake with you (or just concentrating on it) might help dial back the anxiety.