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it's interesting to read all of your thoughts and experiences with anxiety.

welcome, (((LTB))) and thanks for sharing! alas, no, i don't speak Spanish outside of a handful of words. although I can understand it, i don't relate too much with your "brand" of anxiety, but i do appreciate you sharing your experiences and find it interesting to see how it affects people differently.


(((kmay))) it's good to see you posting again. I also run when anxious, but i run inside of myself and hide in order to avoid any kind of confrontation or vulnerability.

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Worst is I'm not really involved in my life - sometimes my mind is elsewhere or it causes me to dissociate or... I'm feeling so afraid and "fast" that I'm calming myself on the inside so I can maintain the outside and I'm therefore missing everything


i most relate with your brand of anxiety, (((cat))) ... the high energy and the huge personal space. but the quote above is what popped out for me. I think i very often am anxious and just never really knew it, maybe just because i'm so used to feeling that way that i think it's normal and how everybody else feels. in general, for me it's a very spacey feeling, almost all the time, like my head isn't really connected with my body which i wonder if that's a mild form of dissociation. also, always feeling like everything i do is automatic pilot. I Live my life largely by always being in motion ... i have to always be doing something and can't seem to ever really slow down and be in touch with what's going on around me or inside of me. i live inside my head, if that makes any sense to anybody.

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prevents me from asking for what I want, keeps me in bad situations, blocks confidence and worth
i could have written that. and i get the "site" muscle pains (very sharp, stabbing pains at various locations on my body). I guess i never made the connection with anxiety, but it makes sense to me, and now i'll be more aware when it's happening to see if i can tie it to anxiety. thanks for sharing your experiences, and i'm glad to hear that you manage it well.

(((Jillann))), i also am an exzema sufferer! it's awful, isn't it? again, i would never have even considered that it was tied in to my anxiety, so I'll be more aware of it when it happens. for me it's my hands and wrists and the arches of my feet and the outside of my ankles. it is maddening! i'm sorry to hear you suffer from this as well. Thanks for sharing your experience. I just might have to check into Lexapro!

thanks again for sharing your thoughts and experiences, everybody!
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