Health Anxiety / Anxiety / Distorted Life :/

[C0OKIES]

Hello everyone, new to this website and the community! This post is about my health anxiety/anxiety (but can also be for anyone who may relate or have gone through this. This might be a bit to read but I'm hoping that anyone who comes across my post can relate and find comfort and maybe advice here. So in my bio states what I'm currently going through, so I won't repeat it here to keep this shorter. But my main issue is getting through this anxiety. Does it really ever get better/easier? I've been doing self care things like eating outside, doing a bit of journaling after those meals, and spending some time outside instead of being in my room. It was going good for a few days until today, when I had an "episode" (I refer to them as episodes because I don't know what else to call them so don't attack me). Whenever I have these episodes, I get extremely anxious and start to overthink and that makes my heart rate increase drastically and it feels like the end of the world. It isn't a panic attack but if I continued down that road it would become one. But my point is, it is so damn hard to stay grounded and tell myself that everything is okay and that its just the anxiety messing with my mind/thoughts. I'm hoping experienced people or people currently going through this or something similar can stop by this post and drop some advice and anything they think may be helpful.

[Agora1]

Hi C0OKIES and Welcome. I will start in saying that it can get better/easier in time.

Like anything else in this world that we want, it takes effort and dedication on our part. There is no magic wand to wave or magical key to open the door to success. It's all about finding the reason for your anxiety, working on those issues with a therapist and most of all, keep moving forward. Once we stay in a fear begets fear cycle, we become stuck and go nowhere.

Physical self-care is important but more so our mental health care. After all it's about our Mind/Body Connection that has put us in this situation. What we think and believe is connected to the body and how we react. I know how terribly frightening an attack can be with each one feeling like the worst ever. If we realize that this feeling is temporary as well as a lie from a negative thought that has grown, we can retrain our brain to not fear it.

Anxiety likes to play a game with our mind making us believe in it. But games are meant to win and we can't allow anxiety to take control. Accepting anxiety and not running from it will bring down the adrenaline levels and make your attack shorter. Eventually, you will be able to stop it either midstream or before it goes into full throttle.

You will have the control and not it. You will win and not anxiety.

That is what we all strive for. A book/video by Dr. Claire Weekes on "Hope & Help for Your Nerves" will give you an idea in how to accept anxiety for what it is..A thought, A lie...

YouTube has the videos to get you started.

I'm glad you are here with us my friend. You've taken your first step in going forward.

You are not alone xx