it's really weird today. I can feel my anxiety levels go way up for a minute, and then drop down to nothing. then go way up and even out. up... even...up...even....

I think that i ignore my GAD... like it's not a problem at all.

I need to be more aware of it.

[faerie_moon_x]

I agree. I think your GAD can trigger you very easy. I have it also. I think my tendancy to worry drives my racing thoughts negatively a lot.

yes... it can and is very triggering. when it's bad, i get that thing I was talking about the other day. what Blue called impending doom.

[BlueInanna]

I get the impending doom thing so bad, sometimes I feel like I'm going to fall off the planet . Talking my head through it seems to help. But then sometimes something bad does happen so I'm often wondering if the anxiety sense is something I'm supposed to use as like a warning or to just dismiss it cuz I'm just having my catastrophic thinking problem Dismissing it is really hard, impossible feeling sometimes.

it leads to all kinds of emotions and eventually a mood shift. I hate it with a passion

[BlueInanna]

Yea me too... The mindfulness therapist told me to try to catch little physical indicators that its coming on...

yeah, but then what?

[BlueInanna]

Exactly lol... She liked for me to use breath and meditation and exercise. Best thing I've found is do 10 mins of yoga usually a couple rounds of sun salutations, I hold each position only 5 breaths and then do the next pose. And if it gets really bad I pop a klonopin.

I should do that. next time i feel it coming on... drop on the floor of the store and do yoga! lol... I could just imagine that.

"It's okay, he's mentally ill" haha...

I just wish there was an instruction manual for all of this.

[BlueInanna]

Where I live I can think of some stores where it would be accepted lol. If it hits me in the store, I just leave, cuz that's just the kind of place where there can be too many people and loud noises and annoying. Or just get what I need asap and get the heck out of there!

i hear that!

[~Christina]

OK you will think this is silly but my T taught me this and it works 99% of the time.

Take a deep breathe in , let it out. As you are taking in the next deep breathe focus on how the air feels like when it is actually going into your lungs, as in feeling your bronchial tubes expand with the air... It takes a bit of work to figure out how it feels to you. So try it before you "need" it.

Anyway I swear by it.

[kindachaotic]

me too Christina, I focus more on the exhale, it does work.

also helps with road rage.

[Mollie May]

Originally Posted by BlueInanna

Where I live I can think of some stores where it would be accepted lol. If it hits me in the store, I just leave, cuz that's just the kind of place where there can be too many people and loud noises and annoying. Or just get what I need asap and get the heck out of there!

I will often just drop everything I'm doing/holding and leave the store. I've been int he store with my husband before and done it. It took him by surprise the first time. But he just drove me home and let me go sit by myself for a while, so I could take an Ativan and work it out. It would be nice to never have to worry about that happening again. But it will. So we do the best we can with the anxiety and the "impending doom" feeling (which is just the worst!).