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Sep 01, 2011, 11:52 AM
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I've been seriously disconnected from reality for the past 3 weeks or so. I hate that feeling, but on the plus side, my anxiety levels were way down, because I was just so incredibly numb!
Well - now, I've managed to re-connect with reality, and while I love the feeling of being back in touch with things, and being more focused, and just being able to experience things more fully....my anxiety is back at a high level again! It feels like I can't win...I can either be numb and not feel anything, or I can experience everything clearly, but that includes the anxiety. I know there has to be a middle ground, and today I'm going to ask my T for ways to help me find that middle ground. The last 3 weeks, when I had a session with my T, there was no anxiety before hand...mostly because I was just so detached from my emotions. Now that I've rejoined reality, I'm panicking about my session in an hour. I asked my T, in an email, if we could do a mindfulness exercise at the start of our session...I'm so glad I did, because with my anxiety levels as they are, I'm not sure I'd be able to handle the session otherwise. This is so very frustrating!!!!!!!!
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Sep 01, 2011, 11:56 AM
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I wonder why you feel numb sometimes, maybe the anxiety burns your emotions out?
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.-William Styron |
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Sep 01, 2011, 08:24 PM
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I use to use intermediary activities like reading young adult and/or fantasy novels; I use to read 3-5 books a week. The reading was a distraction but not too far off because the characters would be working on their, similar-to-my problems and succeeding, giving me hope and some "safe" emotional instruction and relief?
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Sep 01, 2011, 09:36 PM
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I hope your t can help figure it out. Sounds like you understand what's happening pretty well.
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Oct 31, 2011, 07:58 PM
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Actually, I don't see why this should be. A life of pain without pleasure will be familiar to many readers on this site.  But it IS possible to be happy most of the time. That's where I am now, even though I still have many remaining issues. |
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