Rough couple of weeks

[Timmypliskin]

Hello to all.

I'm just checking in, first thanks to all that have helped with positive feedback and listening in the past.

Have been doing better overall, but still dealing with some ongoing physical symptoms... dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, and though I have been dealing with it better, I can feel it building up... so hard to believe that it's anxiety..

Though I know it is, just like most people here, sick of it being the focal point of my life...

Thanks for your time.

[Jeff1943]

Why so hard to believe it's anxiety? The stomach is the organ of the body most sympathetic to anxiety. Hence your nausea.

Muscular tension in the chest is a common experience among those suffering from anxiety disorder.

But these are not ''physical' symptoms. They are caused by an over sensitised nervous system that knows only too well how to imitate physical symptoms. So they are fake symptoms, they are feelings not real physical illness though they feel real enough, I know.

Why should they be the focal point of your life? Why let them? Obsession causes more anxiety, more fear. It is fear that keeps nervous systems over sensitive. Instead accept the symptoms and the feelings, accept them for the moment.

Acceptance brings you peace, no more fighting, no more constantly testing yourself. Acceptance is the first step on the road to recovery.

[Timmypliskin in reply to Jeff1943]

Thank you... your 100% correct.

It is crazy how much you body can react to the over sensitized state.

And just have to let be will be.

[Jeff1943 in reply to Timmypliskin]

That's right, Timmy, we don't have to put up with anxiety for the rest of our life.

We don't have to continuously list our latest symptoms here for ever and ever because that's not going to make us recover.

Acceptance as described by Doctor Claire Weekes in her book 'Self help for your nerves' shows how to banish fear which allows our over sensitised nervous system to recover.

[Timmypliskin in reply to Jeff1943]

I agree completely, and have also listed to much of her books/ talks on YouTube.

Sometimes it's very difficult to see the facts. And accept things for what they are.

I do know for a fact that when I can keep from dwelling on things for extended lengths of time, I do feel better. Keeping busy and doing things , have helped me alot.

It's so easy to fall back into the negative pattern, and to get hypersensitive... it's one of the reasons I checked in on this site, sort of felt myself slipping into the old patterns. And it helps to talk, but I agree about not dwelling on things.

Thanks again...