Feeling down

[Cat26538]

My anxiety is really bad. I’ve been doing everything right but I feel anxious and stressed all the time.

[Hidden]

It’s not always easy to do what is right.

[LovelySnow in reply to Hidden]

So very true.

[LovelySnow]

I'm sorry about this. Sometimes we can do all the right things and negative things still happen to us.

[Hidden]

Doing everything right would have me anxious and stressed, too. I'm just trying to point out how our thinking gets distorted. It's too easy to blame ourselves. We know that anxiety and depression is often due to an actual physical difference in our brains from what would be called "normal", meaning people that have a reasonable sense of anxiety that protects them from danger, but is not crippling in any way. You aren't doing something "wrong" to cause your own anxiety.

But it sure sucks, doesn't it!

[Cat26538 in reply to Hidden]

I blame myself for everything that happens in my family and with my friends