Anxiety and thoughts

[LHall123]

Hello, does anyone find with anxiety they concentrate a lot more into there thoughts and are always thinking about how they feel?

[Hidden]

Yes, it's hard for me to concentrate because I'm always thinking about how I'm feeling and if I'm trying to distract myself then I feel a weird symptom that'll stop me in my tracks and I get nervous thinking about what's wrong with me. I don't know..it consumes me.

[LHall123 in reply to Hidden]

I'm the exact same the minute I'm not thinking about how I feel or something worrying me I get some weird feeling! It's mad

[sallySingh14]

Yep it's horrible and I'm the same I feel I have to act on my thought because I think something bad will happen

[Bagrat]

I tend to get a fleeting ache pain or something and before it's gone I have thought of several serious things it could be. Then I rationalize it but the thoughts in my head by then. I always go back to taking several gentle breaths and noticing how that grounds me. Always reassuring that no matter what else your body does your breathing keeps going with our without your concentration. It's always there to centre and calm you.

[mens]

absolutely right because you are unable to focus on any other thing except your own thoughts and the response which keeps running in your mind. its a lousy feeling that gives you the sinking feeling.

[Agora1]

Oh yes. Every minute of every waking day, it is a struggle to not think of how I am feeling. And should I have some freedom of symptoms, that also triggers me to then again wonder what is happening.

[mittensque]

No matter what I do, or who I am with, ever since I wake up till I fall asleep (which is also hard because of these thoughts) I cannot stop thinking about anxiety, and why I always feel this way, and how nothing is helping me. And the funny thing is, that even though my mind is preoccupied with this 24/7 for a year now, it feels like I don't have enough time to think enough about it.