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Originally Posted by Thirty shades
For me understanding my anxiety doesn't make it go away or any easier to manage.
Being triggered happens long before I can catch it. I am not very good at being aware of my feelings. I find it more helpful to keep a small life, cut out people who trigger me and focus on the nice things that happen. I guess I try and avoid anxiety until I have no choice and it grabs me, suffocates and terrorises me. In reality in is with me most of the time in varying degrees.
I have now got Panic disorder as a result of so much stress from the outside world. I have made friends with a paper bag to breathe in and out of. I wish there was an answer that would cure us.... I hope your course can help  |
I understand so much about my anxiety, I just find it hard to describe what it's like.
My anxiety can also terrorise me, so I can totally empathise with that.
So sorry that you've developed panics so intensely. I used to get pretty severe panic attacks too, though they've thankfully lessened over the years, partly because of therapy and partly because of meds.
But I know I'll live with anxiety for the rest of my life, since I started out life very anxious from birth and early attachment trauma, and everything else in my life from then on just added to it.
Thanks for your good wishes.
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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
Is your anxiety just a generalized feeling or is it triggered by specific life events?
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Both! I feel anxious and worried pretty much all the time to one degree or another. I worry about anything and everything.
But then I also get triggered, mostly by people looking at me, and I feel that they're staring at me and laughing at me, like all the girls who bullied/peer abused me at school did.
I also can't deal with anyone behind me, because of how they followed me and assaulted me back then.
I'm slightly better than I used to me in that I don't have major public meltdowns about it, but I am still very obviously anxious.