Fighting the good fight

[MmSh]

Steps I've taken to fight the anxiety:

1) Trying to stay in reality. Making efforts to fight back on the lies my anxiety tells me. I reassure myself that in the present moment, nothing is happening. That I'm OK.

2) I'm not the POS my anxiety tells me I am. Where is the evidence that I am less than? I have family and friends that care for me. I have a normal life. I don't have any drama or issues that impede my way of living. I have only my anxiety that makes MY thoughts dysfunctional.

3) Reminding myself that I am more than just my anxious thoughts and behaviors. I am many other things. My anxiety is only one facet of my total self.

4) Reminding myself that my childhood trauma isn't the only thing I should remember when thinking back - it is not the whole of my childhood. In that trauma lies good memories of friends and family that were good and positive.

5) Telling my anxious thoughts to go to hell. I look at my friends and family and sweet dog and I tell my anxiety to take a hike. I've got other things to think about.

[CL3V3R-G1RL]

I'm working on that part myself. Calling a truce with my anxiety. I get it's there for a purpose but it's overreacting. It's scared tactics aren't going to work anymore. I'm going to get through this 💪🏽

[MmSh in reply to CL3V3R-G1RL]

C-GIRL!

YES! You got this! All those are reality checks for anxiety. It cannot stand in the face of that reality.

Keep up the good work!!

[JohnPB]

Sounds like you are on the right track by countering the negative thoughts. Your choice of choosing to focus on the positive is wonderful.

[MmSh in reply to JohnPB]

Thank you. At that moment when I wrote that post I was having a good moment. And my positive thoughts won against my negative ones.

But it’s not easy and the negative wins more often than not. But I keep trying in hopes of tipping the scales to one day have the positive be the dominant force in charge.

It’s a journey

[JohnPB in reply to MmSh]

Thanks for the reply. I, too, struggle with staying more positive. As we focus on being positive we find it becomes more natural.