anxiety

[Guzzi63]

I’ve never done this before ,writing in a group ,I’m 60 I’ve now had anxiety for 3 years ,lately it really bad and shed many tears ,,my heart is constantly racing and take beater blocker that helps ,it’s so bad now I’ve just started taking floxatine ,4 days in ,I’m praying they take the sharp edges off ,you find yourself living in fear and not enjoying life ,I would say I’m excistin ! I was adopted and two years in my adopted dad passed away ,think things were tuff for my mother ,anyway she remarried and are still alive ,90 ! I’ve had a bit of counselling and abandonment issues have come up ,3 years ago I actually found my birth mother in Canada ,so in touch but never met ,but basically my anxiety is awful ,I’m wondering what else to do ,desperate really ,so many people worse off I know but seems terrible to have to live like this ,

[gajh]

Hello and Welcome. I am glad you found your way here. Now you can talk to people who understand anxiety. If you are interested in a book recommendation, a good one is Hope and Help for Your Nerves by Dr Claire Weekes. She teaches you a method to overcome your anxiety. There are people on this site who have made a full recovery using her method. They share their experiences with us here. It is very inspirational. There is hope.

[Guzzi63 in reply to gajh]

Thanks ,it seems like there I no end to it ,I have moments of complete joy when the anxiety leaves my body but it loves to return ,my wife has listened to me now for years that s all we talk about is me ,I pray it ends 🙏🙏🙏

[marsbarr]

Welcome you will find many friends who understand how you feel here. Someone is always available 24 hrs a day; every day

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This is a positive and safe forum for you to explore new ways to express what you’re experiencing. Writing can be a good way to focus and bring clarity to the chaos anxiety brings. It’s a good mental discipline to attempt to snatch one point of focus at a time out of the whirlwind of thoughts anxiety creates. Sometimes the clarity that comes from putting those thoughts into a singular perspective alleviates their ability to disrupt our mental balance. It’s like holding an object out at different arms length to focus differently, describing it to yourself in writing, reading it again later, analyzing it, questioning, being non-critical, just exploring for better understanding. Then, when comfortable, sharing it. It’s positive to understand that often the anxiety is a mental lens that we’re experiencing the world and ourselves through, a distortion of what’s really going on. Just as anger or other strong emotions are. It’s like putting reins on a horse named anxiety and attempting to steer it where we want because it’s too strong to control and too fast to jump off of.

Find new things that claim your focus, art, activities, things that require both mental and physical involvement. Great distractors for anxiety, as well as being another way of burning up that physical energy that causes us to spin in place at times too. Explore, discover, express, share….repeat.