Trying to talk myself through it

[PT81]

Anxiety when up and I’m trying to accept it. Accepting that I’m practicing not letting secondary fear heighten my already anxious body. It’s hard and it’s a struggle. But this will pass, I just need to ride it out.

[Pugglesworth]

Letting the struggle go is extremely difficult.

Until it isn't.

Acceptance of the here and now just as it is: much easier said than done.

Until it just happens.

I forget to concentrate on myself: my feelings, situation, worries, pain.

And then, accidentally, I'm free for a moment.

Then I remember: there was no one suffering there at all.

[Eagledove]

This is my challenge too. Stopping the anxiety from escalating.

The book ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ by Dr Claire Weekes has been a big help for me in this regard.

[Beevee in reply to Eagledove]

You don’t try to stop it escalating. You give it a free reign to do its worst and then let it. That is acceptance.

[Eagledove in reply to Beevee]

You need to stop the fear/adrenaline/fear cycle.

Fully accept the symptoms you have as just generated from stress and anxiety. Otherwise you will get much worse. I’ve been there more than once.

[PT81]

Yes, I’m currently reading that one now.

[Beevee]

Acceptance is not something you try to do. It is not a “doing“ thing. It’s an attitude that takes time to develop, to let the symptoms come and not do anything to try and stop them, suppress them or deliberately distract yourself to stop feeling it. It’s changing your attitude from What if to so what and meaning it.