Work advice, please!

[Eagle12]

I have been working so hard to get my anxiety at a manageable level. I have been using every skill I have ever learned. My job on Tues and Thurs is so chaotic that I don't see any relief in sight. My supervisors and co-workers life's are so chaotic that it spills over into my life. Changing jobs is not an option. This morning my relief was 30 min. late and no one in charge seemed to know anything. I can't control other people. Things can't always be prodictive and life is just messy at times. What do I do? I need to function in this world with the added stress of anxiety. My supervisors can't control their own lives so they are not in a position to help. What can I do to stop the panic two days a week in the middle of all this chaos and and unpredictable environment?

[Hidden]

That would be way to much chaos for me. Sounds like you're working some magic, already. Please pat yourself on the back for dealing as well as you have for such madness.

[Agora1]

Breathe Eagle12. Using breathing in situations we have no control over,

can help reduce the stress on our minds and our bodies. xx

[Hidden in reply to Agora1]

Actually I like your answer better then mine.

If this post were an election, I would be now dropping out officially and throwing all my support behind your answer.

[Agora1 in reply to Hidden]

lol xx

[Hidden]

^^^ Yes learn to breathe, it will calm, lower your heart rate, relax and settle the fight or flight response. Our hormones like adrenaline spike, etc.

Its better to take 10 minutes to do this than stay in a state where you aren't being productive due to panic and anxiety.

[abc30]

Try for a while to not think to yourself. Think to all people that is sick on this earth, with cancer, with chronic disease at lung, people that cannot breathe, cannot live, people that are very poor. Comparing with all of these your suffer is like a breeze. In the same time try to practice elements of yoga, specially relaxation Technic. Lay down on bad, try to relax first left leg, then right leg, then left hand, then right hand, then your head. Finally feel your body heavily. Concentrate your mind to feel entire body in the same time, legs, hands, head. Concentrate then your mind to imagine that you are in the middle of meadow with a lot of flowers with many smells and wind blows lightly. Somewhere is a spring with crystal water. The sky is deep blue and you feel lost in its infinity. Try to keep this feelings for 30 minutes. Your anxiety will disappears .

[4woody]

Breathing is always a good place to start. Thinking of the suffering of others has never helped me. Know in some definitive way that it is okay to not be in control. That helps. Accepting the chaos I live in is a step, I want to take more steps because chaos and adversity still really throw me physically and mentally.