Fear

[Negeen]

How do you all deal with anxiety? Or fear about your future? I see a therapist and it helps for an hour and then I get nervous again. Lol.

[BaronC]

Face the fears and anxieties head on. You'll never completely remove them from your life, but you will learn to live with them. It's a horrible cliche but you will eventually find your own coping mechanisms to get you through. For instance whenever I go anywhere and I do mean anywhere at all, I always spend the first few minutes or moments finding my 'escape route' in case of a seizure happening or just my own general discomfort.

Soon you'll find different ways of coping with different situations and the anxieties you feel will ease somewhat. As I say, those fears will always be lurking, but it is possible to fight back and eventually win

[lorrainedickson2]

I wish I could give you words of wisdom on how to deal with this Negeen, however I too have a lot of fear about the future. I have a faith and I try and hold on to that.

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I try to think about what I am panicking about logically to try and reduce the anxiety only trouble is I think of something else to be anxious about

[BarbadosKay]

Oh gosh. The fear is the worst thing of all. I can really sympathise. It's so much easier to deal with all the symptoms - even the most worrying and strange ones, like the sound of a jumbo jet fly past inside my head or at night waking up suddenly with the distinct sound of no-one striking a single extravagant piano chord. At the moment, I am dealing with the fear by focussing on my belief that time can heal. I'm not sure what Plan B will be if more time passes and nothing has returned to normal. But for that I guess living day to day is the best medicine. Wishing you well, Kay PS: This forum helps tremendously too...it's very reassuring to discover you're not the only one going through similar stuff.

[iforget]

To be honest I don't have enough energy to worry too much about what may or not happen in the future - the BI took care of that aspect for me. However I find practical preventative planning really helps with the day to day stuff... so for example having an escape route in case of overload/meltdown, making sure I have phone charged & loaded, have meds, snacks etc in my bag in case I am stuck or delayed..and then once I know I have done all the things I can reasonably do I acknowledge the fear and that is beyond my control and I grit my teeth and just push through. It hasn't killed me yet and that knowledge helps too.

[Negeen in reply to iforget]

Are you married iforget? I think my concerns have more to do with the big picture like whether or not i will be able to go to college or have a real career. Raise children. Its not so much the day to day stuff as it is life's major milestones.

[Phat01]

I think everyone has the same fears about the future, things often seem more challenging than they turn out to be. It's important to have aspirations and work steadily towards them one step at a time. Anxiety can get in the way making you doubt yourself but like the song goes if you don't have a dream how you gonna make that dream come true