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yesterday was a good day but not today
yesterday was a pretty good day but today is not going good so far my question is for those of you who have suffered from anxiety for years did you have constant anxiety or did it come and go in cycles. this is really scaring me because there is no way i can feel like this for years i just feel like i want to come out of my skin
Mine focuses pretty tightly on social situations, that includes telephone conversations, being in a work environment, going for a family gathering. My anxiety is always with me, always has been, but to what degree has varied. When I am depressed, it is worse. When I isolate myself and let my focus go from things outside of myself to focusing on what is going on in my head, then my anxiety is at its worst. In other words, the more I do the things that cause me anxiety, the less the anxiety becomes.
My anxiety is constant. it has never gone.its 24/7 around me.i cud never come out ov it. My system is now so much weak that i cannot even go upstairs without feeling my heartbeat and shortness of breath. For me , nothing worked.
Some people have it for years on and off whereas others have relief for over a decade before anxiety rears its ugly head again!
I had anxiety first when I was 18, it stayed several months before fading. Then it struck again when I was 32 expecting a baby, once again it was with me for a few months on/off and then left. It came back again, I'm now 42, a few months ago and I have been dealing with it on/off since.
Even though each time is hard, I get a lot of support with family and friends. Do you have that support system around you? Sometimes just the company helps and being able to talk to someone about it. If they have not suffered from it, it is hard for them to relate but it helps all the same to feel that you will not loose your mind.
The feeling you describe of "coming out of your skin" is awful and I completely relate to that, I feel like that several times in the day but I also say to myself "this will not last" and it does pass. The problem comes when all we think about is how we feel. From the moment we wake up in the morning we find ourselves looking for the anxiety and analysing every physical feeling, it is true mental turmoil.
Rather than saying to yourself that you cannot live like this for years and assuming that it will be with you always, try a different outlook. Try accepting the way you feel NOW, at this moment in time. Abandon yourself to the anxiety and relax into it, as though you are easing yourself into a shallow bath of warm water and let yourself go. You will not die, you will not go crazy, however you will find that gradually you will relax. Try it a few times, until you feel relief and once you have found that it works you have won! You will have found a solution to deal with it when it happens without "fighting" it all the time and using up all your energy. Claire Weekes describes this well and much better than me in her book "Peace from Nervous Suffering". Read it and let me know.
Remember you are not alone.
I had anxiety first when I was 18, it stayed several months before fading. Then it struck again when I was 32 expecting a baby, once again it was with me for a few months on/off and then left. It came back again, I'm now 42, a few months ago and I have been dealing with it on/off since.
Even though each time is hard, I get a lot of support with family and friends. Do you have that support system around you? Sometimes just the company helps and being able to talk to someone about it. If they have not suffered from it, it is hard for them to relate but it helps all the same to feel that you will not loose your mind.
The feeling you describe of "coming out of your skin" is awful and I completely relate to that, I feel like that several times in the day but I also say to myself "this will not last" and it does pass. The problem comes when all we think about is how we feel. From the moment we wake up in the morning we find ourselves looking for the anxiety and analysing every physical feeling, it is true mental turmoil.
Rather than saying to yourself that you cannot live like this for years and assuming that it will be with you always, try a different outlook. Try accepting the way you feel NOW, at this moment in time. Abandon yourself to the anxiety and relax into it, as though you are easing yourself into a shallow bath of warm water and let yourself go. You will not die, you will not go crazy, however you will find that gradually you will relax. Try it a few times, until you feel relief and once you have found that it works you have won! You will have found a solution to deal with it when it happens without "fighting" it all the time and using up all your energy. Claire Weekes describes this well and much better than me in her book "Peace from Nervous Suffering". Read it and let me know.
Remember you are not alone.
its been my experience that it comes in cycles...however the cycles for me can last a few days strait...
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