I have severe anxiety and my dr is aware of this, but I think I would be in a worse state if I was taking meds.. I know they're supposed to help but I would spend the first week (or however long they take to kick in) getting worse from fear.
I mostly concentrate on doing happy positive things and try and meditate. If you've never done meditation, you might think that's a weird idea, but use a guided one and it can definitely distract you and calm you if you try hard enough xx
I have severe anxiety and my dr is aware of this, but I think I would be in a worse state if I was taking meds.. I know they're supposed to help but I would spend the first week (or however long they take to kick in) getting worse from fear.
I mostly concentrate on doing happy positive things and try and meditate. If you've never done meditation, you might think that's a weird idea, but use a guided one and it can definitely distract you and calm you if you try hard enough xx
It took me the first about 9 months I was seeing my psychiatrist to realize that I didn't need to be anxious about taking medication for my anxiety. It's a vicious cycle.
Usually when my anxiety hits, it is not a time when I can stop what I'm doing and meditate, it's usually when the s**t hits the fan and I'm alone with two small children and they both need me and something else is breaking or going bad. Deep breathing? Yes. Doing something positive and meditating? Not happening.
I guess it is different for everyone. I see it as if I were able to distract and calm myself easily, don't you think I would? Do you think I choose to be anxious just because I enjoy it so much, and if I want to I can just "quit" being anxious?
I have severe anxiety and my dr is aware of this, but I think I would be in a worse state if I was taking meds.. I know they're supposed to help but I would spend the first week (or however long they take to kick in) getting worse from fear.
I mostly concentrate on doing happy positive things and try and meditate. If you've never done meditation, you might think that's a weird idea, but use a guided one and it can definitely distract you and calm you if you try hard enough xx
It took me the first about 9 months I was seeing my psychiatrist to realize that I didn't need to be anxious about taking medication for my anxiety. It's a vicious cycle.
Usually when my anxiety hits, it is not a time when I can stop what I'm doing and meditate, it's usually when the s**t hits the fan and I'm alone with two small children and they both need me and something else is breaking or going bad. Deep breathing? Yes. Doing something positive and meditating? Not happening.
I guess it is different for everyone. I see it as if I were able to distract and calm myself easily, don't you think I would? Do you think I choose to be anxious just because I enjoy it so much, and if I want to I can just "quit" being anxious?
I understand that it is near enough impossible to control in certain situations. Once it happens, it happens and its too late. My measures are based on trying to do it every day before it kicks it. Because if I'm already too far in, I can't concentrate for sh1t. The mind just doesn't shut up.
Everyone live in different situations so it may be harder for people to find time for this, but I try and stop every few hours and force myself to concentrate on .. well, not doing anything, not thinking about anything. As I said, this can only be done if you're not mid attack, but sometimes attacks are a built up of subconscious goings-on that you don't know are happening until it explodes. So I try my best to push it back down the escalating later. However, like I said, not everyone lives in situations where they can spend time on this.
I am awful at keeping up the practise, and awful at doing all the stuff I have read and been told I should be doing to keep my anxiety on the low end. To me, a good period is when I only spend 10 out of 30 days in a complete messed up state, rather than spending nearly all of them. I haven't been free of it for many years.
I have severe anxiety and my dr is aware of this, but I think I would be in a worse state if I was taking meds.. I know they're supposed to help but I would spend the first week (or however long they take to kick in) getting worse from fear.
I mostly concentrate on doing happy positive things and try and meditate. If you've never done meditation, you might think that's a weird idea, but use a guided one and it can definitely distract you and calm you if you try hard enough xx
It took me the first about 9 months I was seeing my psychiatrist to realize that I didn't need to be anxious about taking medication for my anxiety. It's a vicious cycle.
Usually when my anxiety hits, it is not a time when I can stop what I'm doing and meditate, it's usually when the s**t hits the fan and I'm alone with two small children and they both need me and something else is breaking or going bad. Deep breathing? Yes. Doing something positive and meditating? Not happening.
I guess it is different for everyone. I see it as if I were able to distract and calm myself easily, don't you think I would? Do you think I choose to be anxious just because I enjoy it so much, and if I want to I can just "quit" being anxious?
I understand that it is near enough impossible to control in certain situations. Once it happens, it happens and its too late. My measures are based on trying to do it every day before it kicks it. Because if I'm already too far in, I can't concentrate for sh1t. The mind just doesn't shut up.
Everyone live in different situations so it may be harder for people to find time for this, but I try and stop every few hours and force myself to concentrate on .. well, not doing anything, not thinking about anything. As I said, this can only be done if you're not mid attack, but sometimes attacks are a built up of subconscious goings-on that you don't know are happening until it explodes. So I try my best to push it back down the escalating later. However, like I said, not everyone lives in situations where they can spend time on this.
I am awful at keeping up the practise, and awful at doing all the stuff I have read and been told I should be doing to keep my anxiety on the low end. To me, a good period is when I only spend 10 out of 30 days in a complete messed up state, rather than spending nearly all of them. I haven't been free of it for many years.
I actually tried this out! Well, I tried mindfulness which is essentially the same thing, and if I was fairly calm it was pretty effective, you'd come out of it feeling so relaxed. Then I'd end up getting so anxious because I couldn't find the time to do it, or when I tried I couldn't find the quiet and I ended up worse than when I started
Apparently it really does help a lot of people, both of my therapists recommended it but it just wasn't for me. Big up on my meds personally but I do think it's something to be open minded about, what with there being no cost or side effects