Posted by janetlee on November 22, 2006, at 11:01:05
In reply to Re:Teejay an important question please reply, posted by teejay on November 22, 2006, at 7:17:01
> Hiya kiwi,
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> well I can give you no definitive answers as I still suffer, and suffer terribly but there are some strategies which certainly seem to ease the symptoms, or at the very least put a cap on their severity.
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> Breathing exercises help with immediate panic of flare ups of focussed anxiety. You should be able to find lots of these exercises on the web. The same goes for stretching exercises which too can help in the short term.
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> The main thing though is to realise that its not the potential stress of a given situation thats causing you anxiety, its the WORRY OF IT thats causing the anxiety. Its a subtle but very important difference. Your mind forms a mental image of you in a given situation and then projects certain fears and neuroses onto that image. The thing to do is when you are actually in the situation (which is never as bad as your mind has told you it will be) remind yourself of all the worry you had and how much time you wasted getting anxious about it. Believe me, it makes you feel really stupid! The thing to do is then remember that experience and how it wasn't as bad as you imagined and recall it each time you get anxious about an event.
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> The real tough one (and the one I have no answers to) is the mega free floating anxiety issues. They are without doubt chemical in nature as nothing I do will even blunt it when its there. It can last a day or several days and be severely debilitating, but then all of a sudden its like it burns itself out and it lifts and disperses with no intervention at all. Now if you have any answers to that conundrum I'd love to hear em.
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> Hope that helps in some way.
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> TJTeejay,
That's my problem! I have GAD, which is the free floating anxiety. I can be okay one day and then wake up the next and it's waiting for me, for no specific reason! It's been 3 days now and it really gets me down.
janet
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