anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
You're Not Breathing Right
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Michaela HolbrookPublished 7 years ago in PsycheDon't Sleep
Somehow, I think that if I just don’t sleep then tomorrow just won’t come. Of course it always does, but just let me live in my fantasy for a little longer. Sleepless eyes and with my weak body with the covers softly snuggled around me, I wish that I could just melt into them. I want to sleep so badly…but then again in the morning I would stir and the sun will gently wake me up. Immediately my brain internally screams silently at my torment - that I actually have to get up and live. Which is why I stay up on my laptop watching videos and playing games that bring me joy and out of my own mind for a while before snapping back and realizing my world is much darker and more painful than the ones I escape to. The characters always seem to find a way to live happy - happy perhaps being a bit of a stretch - and fulfilled lives. Somehow meeting people, finding adventures and having everything conveniently fall into place. Everything in which my life is not.
K MathisonPublished 7 years ago in PsycheTips for Coping with Anxiety in the Moment
There is not much worse than feeling an anxiety attack creeping up your shoulder. It's easy to feel completely overwhelmed and defenseless. People with anxiety disorders can have battles with their mental health daily.
Kelsey LangePublished 7 years ago in PsycheAnxiety's Best Friend: Change
It's exciting thinking about all the progress you're making when you don't let that bellowing voice in your head dictate your life, especially for a deranged teenager with trust issues and paranoia. You think of all the ways anxiety has taken over your life; you don't trust anyone, you overthink every decision, and you cut corners wherever and whenever you can. High school becomes easy to cope with when you've been around the same people for 14 years. Graduating and moving overseas, however, had anxiety written all over it.
Breathing to Help You Deal With Anxiety
At the root core of meditation is the control of your breathing, hence your mind is relaxed and your spirit renewed. But it doesn't always come that easily, because you are unfortunately preforming your breathing in an irregular fashion. In fact, the very way you breathe stipulates much about your mental and physical states, seen most acutely in exercising. Weight trainers always stress the importance of controlled breathing, because not only does it help stimulate your muscles, it also keeps your mind on the prize.
George HermanPublished 7 years ago in PsycheModed AF
It's 2017 and things are pretty much going downhill... quickly. Against my better judgment, I am at my grandmother's place because living alone is becoming a type of hell that is unbearable. (Despite a “friend” of mine telling me that moving back would be the worse thing in the world). I am also up to my nose in a depression that I can't explain to anyone. I think to myself that I can't still be grieving, when in fact, I am still grieving everything about my old life — my family, my friends, and the life I was "supposed" to have, whatever that means — anxiously thinking, I can still have that old life back, if I try really hard. I have to be MORE positive, MORE liked, be nicer, do everything right and to just stay above water by working a nice job. It's like the older I get, something in me get's more aggressive. However, on the outside, I become more timid. Go figure?
PTSD vs Scientology
In order to know, really know, my story, I would have to take you back nine years, to the beginning of my military career. However, I won’t bore you with the intricacies of my history. Instead, I will give you the information that I believe is relevant to what led to my first visit at a Church of Scientology.
smokedu PrincessPublished 7 years ago in PsycheBecoming a Loser (Pt. 2)
We sat there. In silence. I was crying, but began to ask myself what good would come out of tears streaming down my face. Crying wouldn’t help, but I could not control the waterfalls. I turned to him and he knew. He knew in that moment that my heart was broken and for the first time in our relationship, all walls, all ammunition, every guard I had put up were gone. He looked at me with his warm hazel eyes and took me in his arms. He was wearing a black sweater from H&M, the one he thought was uncomfortable. The only thought I had in this moment was…"Shit, my smearing make-up will get his sweater dirty," but I knew he wouldn’t care. He didn’t like when I “painted my face,” but I did it anyway. Perhaps to hide the dark circles under my eyes that seemed to stretch out to my chin. Maybe it was to hide the sadness or the pain in my eyes, a sort of distraction for the general public crossing my path for a mere three seconds.
Anik MarchandPublished 7 years ago in PsycheHow to Use Tapping for Anxiety
Have you ever heard of tapping for anxiety? Well, if you haven't it's a simple way to curb your anxiety while costing you nothing out of pocket. It's also known as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), where you tap gently on different parts of the body with your fingertips while you repeat a phrase out loud and pay attention to your emotions.
Bill ShaffirPublished 7 years ago in PsycheBecoming a Loser (Pt. 1)
We were at the grocery store, he and I. I kept on thinking about what he had told me the day before. How he got this amazing opportunity at work. I was miserable at my job, teaching, so naturally, I was a little envious of his opportunity. I had just finished my Master’s Thesis in Art History and well, you guessed it, it was useless. I didn’t know where to turn or what to do with this degree. I didn’t want to work for the sad and shameful business of “the museum” nor could I find employment in a gallery. I didn’t like contemporary art, and Montreal was the Mecca of contemporary empty art. I didn’t know where to turn. I didn’t know what to do. Pure panic set in my mind. I felt stuck. Unintelligent. And worst of all, depression was no stranger to making things much more complicated then they needed to be.
Anik MarchandPublished 7 years ago in PsycheOpen Letter to My Anxiety
Dear Anxiety, You have been with me through thick and thin. Always by my side since day one. You hover close by on my good days and wrap me in your presence on bad days. I understand that you think you are trying to help me cope with the craziness of this world but I’m starting to feel smothered. I don’t need this constant attention and interference in my life. So from this day on, you are no longer going to control my decisions.
Alina GallupePublished 7 years ago in PsycheCoping with Anxiety
Anxiety comes in many shapes and forms. People experience it differently, so what works for me may not work for everyone. But I felt compelled to share some of the things that have worked for me over the past two years since I've received my diagnosis of social anxiety.
Chasity NicolePublished 7 years ago in Psyche