My Mind Is Swimming

I find that my anxiety shows itself a lot during quite time when I can reflect on my day or week. My mind literally starts swimming around in a pool of worry. I worry about every little detail of my day or week. Even things beyond my control. It makes me feel physically nauseous. Any advice to calm the mind when I'm trying to fall asleep? And what about just in general when I need to function during my day but am stuck literally sitting in one spot worried about my past week or day. Ughhh it controls my life sometimes.

I've been experiencing something quite similar. I've been trying mindfulness and grounding and am having some minor success with it.

Hi arnie91,

I feel the same way. I worry about the things I cannot control. I understand about the quietness, at times when I'm relaxing the anxiety hits and I feel edgy and hyperactive. My go to activity to relieve my anxiety is exercise. I get up and take a brisk walk. I ask myself, what is it your anxious about and generally I cannot come up with a good answer. That seems to calm me down some.

My therapist gave me an exercise to help me calm down. She said to keep reminding myself that I cannot control everything. To only worry about the things in my life I can change.

Hope this helps a little.

Pinkrose

Today I seem to have a new head swimming issue. I did something at work today that I do almost everyday. But for some reason tonight after work I started worrying I did it wrong. Most likely I didn't, because I actually remember double checking certain things. But I know I won't sleep well tonight and I won't relax until I go into work tomorrow. Sometimes my anxiety is in check during situations like this. I can tell myself I do these things daily so it's fine, I must have done it right at work. But my anxiety has been so surface level lately so tonight I'm in a panic I just wish I had a different brain sometimes.