One Foot In Front of The Other

[Garrett30]

In 2018 I started to feel symptoms, sensations, have episodes where I felt like I was dying and needed to be rushed to the hospital....I felt as If I would pass out and not wake up. I felt light as a feather, but also heavy at the same time and would try to walk it off but the intensity was too much for me. It would start to happen more often until finally I went to a doctor for a check up. He said that I could be struggling from anxiety and anxiety attacks...I thought for something to feel so intense, that's anxiety?

On top of that, I started to have sensations in other parts of my body, started to freak out that it could be a brain tumor etc...Crazy right? Anxiety can really take over your life if you let it. Even to this day it still does for me, but am so curious about the brain, energy in the body, trauma, and how your thoughts dictate the direction your life will go.

[secrets22]

Hello Garrett........i get all those symptom's as well as brain fog when nothing seems to coordinate , and of course we then get caught up in the most terrible emotional state, anxiety is truly horrendous, it bends our mind , but take heed you are not alone.

[Turnipgirl in reply to secrets22]

It gets like a vicious circle doesn't it if you don't take steps to address it!

[LynnSalv]

It seems hopeless sometimes, but know that we humans have a way of overcoming these struggles we face. I hope you get to feel relief in the near future from your anxiety 🙏

[Turnipgirl]

What I found has helped me with anxiety over going on crowded buses is to take things a step at a time and walk myself through situations that make me anxious to prove everything is fine and there's no reason to be frightened and then go on to do the situation proving everything is fine and there's no need to feel frightened!

This afternoon for me it's an appointment at the benefits office at 3.30pm to claim benefits and what I decided to do was leave home nice and early rather than stay in and get myself more and more worked up in there, got an early bus down to town which is now out of the way which was crowded, treated myself to breakfast out and will go to the park and get on with some job hunting and then go to the jobcentre at 3 30pm for my appointment and go from there!

[Agora1]

Hi Garrett30, as much as we fear Anxiety and the Sensations it causes,

we can overcome it by picking apart what causes it.

I've used YouTube as my guide in knowing what is happening

and why. Once we have a basis for our fears then we can work

on eliminating them one step at a time. Great Post xx