Impending Doom

[anon99]

Does anybody ever feel normal but just anxious. Like you know something bad is gonna happen.. and just imagining all these things happening and wondering what you will do or if you’ll be too far from help? Like a heart attack or other stuff 😳 then you get any weird sensation anywhere in your body and it’s like yep.

[DeoDeo]

The reality is, that very often, half of the things we worry or are anxious about, never happen. Therefore, we have to challenge those negative thoughts, which come to our mind, without we even noticing them, for their validity and if they are facts, or just an opinion.

[anon99 in reply to DeoDeo]

How do you mean challenge them? Its like almost everytime I worry about something I get a symptom that resembles what I’m worrying about.

[DeoDeo in reply to anon99]

You see, we get these automatic thoughts, coming into our mind, and we accept them, without even noticing that they have just intruded into our mind. The reason to challenge them, is because, very often it is not the event which is the danger, but our interpretation and the meaning we give to that event. Our interpretation of events in our life, can be based on our own core beliefs. Those are a negative beliefs, which have been build with time by our negative past experiences, influenced by people we meet in our life, our childhood, the films we watch, the celebrities or influencing people in our life. That is why, we have to check, if the meaning we give events, is based on a fact, or just on our opinion..

[grussell49 in reply to DeoDeo]

👍

[Brightfuture22]

I feel the way you described every day. Some days the impending doom feeling in small and I can work through it, other days I am gutted by it. I am convinced that something terrible is going to happen to me. I get all the symptoms of whatever ailment I am catastrophizing about. It’s horrible, to suffer from health anxiety and live every day waiting on the inevitable hammer to drop. I am sorry you are expecting this.

[anon99 in reply to Brightfuture22]

I’m sorry you are too. I feel crazy sometimes.

[Natsteveo in reply to anon99]

Sweetie your not crazy at all

I get that feeling too it’s the way our body reacts what our mind is thinking fight or flight... I get that dread in the pit of your core then my body goes tingly then anxiety kicks in straight away when I had cbt therapy my therapist said that what our minds think our body and nerves react too ...

That’s where the feeling that something bad is going to happen our bodies get ready to fight straight away it’s awful to go through but your not alone I’ve been there like most of us and still get it... you will get passed this stage

Nat xx

[anon99 in reply to Natsteveo]

It’s hard to retrain thoughts and tell yourself it’s all a lie. Everyday it feels so real and each day passes and nothing happens but it’s still so real and there. So sorry you go through this.. it is not for the weak. Ty for your reply

[Natsteveo in reply to anon99]

We are all in this together here if u need a chat

Nat

[scooby07]

Everymorning I wake up I have a terrible feeling I hate it and everyday I feel like I have a pain somewhere I'm learning to get on with it but it's not nice

[anon99 in reply to scooby07]

Me too. from the time I wake up til I go to sleep. Do you have derealization with it? It makes everything 100x worse.

[MelissaG]

Yes every day I have that feeling, my worse fear is dying but also heart attack, I have to have a 24hr heart monitor fitted soon, and a scan to check my valves to make sure they havent got worse so every day I'm absolutely terrified, some days I feel fine but still have that feeling of dread

[anon99 in reply to MelissaG]

😳 Some days are better than others for me also but the thoughts/feelings are always there. Goodluck on your tests.

[fib4]

i'm the same way always waiting for something to go wrong it's hard to talk myself down sometimes i know it's all in my mind and it's the anxiety talking but it's still hard to handle sometimes

[utep99]

I get these feelings. Most of the time they are errant! Keep going and likely you will discover the same!