Anxiety support thread anyone :)

[YommyMommy]

Was wondering of anyone was interested in a anxiety support thread :D

X x

[QuiteQuiet]

No worries, I am supposed to be studying but it's too much, again I am telling myself whats the point' not even asking... just telling myself. I may go lie down and remove some of today.

Take care.

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

Yy to the little talks in my head that put things off! Definitely did that this morning

I think, reflecting on it, it is because I did something I found very stressful on Saturday. It totally occupied all my stress circuits for several weeks, my work really suffered. But it was absolutely non-negotiable that I went. So I did, and got through it, and I feel like I'm still calming down from it and processing everything that happened really. Probably why I'm a bit feeble today.

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

You take care too Quite

[QuiteQuiet]

I cannot even lie down, my body wants to sleep, my brain wants to think

Nevermind, I will knock myself out 10.30pm tonight...

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

Have you ever tried reading [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Thinking-Start-Living-Happiness/dp/0722535473?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 Stop Thinking Start Living?] It's really a sort of simplified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy thing for depressives and (to an extent) anxiety sufferers. Sometimes I find it useful and like I'm in a position to take the advice - other times I'm a bit too far down the rabbithole!

But might be worth a try, so thought I'd mention it?

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

Doh, link fail. Stop Thinking Start Living

[QuiteQuiet]

Thank you, I may try that when I next get some money.

It's easier to help other people than deal with your own problems isn't it ?

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

Definitely. This is why I am on the MN so much

[MulledWineOnTheBusLady]

Stray "the". Can't even write today!

[QuiteQuiet]

I'm all typed out, I never usually manage a full sentence.... I am typist who cannot type!

[QuiteQuiet]

sentance or sentence, this American dictionary spell-check is way too confusing for me, it keeps replacing my s's with z's also.

[YommyMommy]

Lol QQ!!

I really need to start proof reading before posting. I often cringe when re reading...I'm terrible for making silly mistakes

Hope everyone is having a calm evening x x

[QuiteQuiet]

Even better I also suffer from slight dsylexia, I sent a memo round an office once saying

'please can you all have your dairies order by October this year'

know/now, brain/brian, through/throw.... diaries/dairies

If I keep posting you will not doubt spot them all and if I cannot think of a word I just make one up which resembles it

[QuiteQuiet]

Jesus Christ dyslexia

[QuiteQuiet]

How is everyone today?

I have 2 things to do tomorrow, I was going to back out of one, but I may put my Nike top on and 'Just Do It'

I am so not over-thinking about tomorrow btw!

[YommyMommy]

Hey QQ,

Best thing to do with Anxiety it to beat its ass!! Only way it can get better!!

So don the Nike t-shirt and just do it x x

[alwaysworriedtoo]

Said that dd can go to her best friends house on Mon and keep getting a wobble!

[YommyMommy]

Hey always worried!

Why you so worried about it? She'll b fine and so will you! x x

[alwaysworriedtoo]

Thanks Yommy Mommy, shes been before but this is the first time shes been picked up from school by friends dad and driven there. I don't like traffic at this time of year! I'll just have to remind myself he takes dd's friend home by car all the time why should this time be any different. (But then its like those films ='I've only got two weeks left to retirement/ holiday/ Christmas' and then you just Know Something is going to happen)I always get a wobble when dh Is driving anywhere further than usaul at this time of year too...

[YommyMommy]

I'm sure dd's friends dad drives very carefully! She will b fine.

I know that feeling of impending doom though and it's no fun!! X x

[QuiteQuiet]

Thank you!!

I swear I'm fighting this anxiety full frontal I shall list what I have done in 2 days to impress myself! Oh and apparently my therapist is not erm... useless the first few session, I speak lots she listens and attempts to work out WTF to do with my wacko brain! Poor lady, she has her work cut out.

Okay I have:

Drove with a semi flat tyre.
Garage tyre thing didn't work so drove further and to a new petrol station I didn't look like dumb ass blonde and pretend not to know how to inflate the tyre I filled the machine with 20ps and just put the metal object on my tyre and press it's lever and voila - I inflated a tyre, okay this may seem minimal but for me it's a big anxiety of mine.

I then, drove to a new garage and yews I was confused as I have no idea what petrol to use a new garages but a man was waiting so I felt slightly anxious and chose green, that worked!

So that was all yesterday.

Today

I couldn't find any suitable Nike clothing due to the weather, so I walked the dog in this hissing rain.

I then came home see he time panicked slightly, as had GP at 9.20am, faced another fear .... the GP car park, I have to say I impressed myself, I reversed into a space without hitting anything/one.

I spoke with the GP, almost winked at the dishy one who I know I am destined to marry one day, possibly when I have less problems and move to another practice, he smiled at me twice and went I love him, we sit together talking when I can him for an appointment (popular GP) and we sit and together......forget the GP QUIET, he is married fgs!

Anyway, then I came home for an hour, then back out to another horrid carpark, I waited 5 minutes on a space and decided to try my luck in a private parking zone which I half thought may lock me in, I arrived back after 45 minutes and voila car was intact, not locked in and no fines.

I then had a man come here at 1.00pm, I was sure he was coming to throw me out of my new house for my children putting muddy hands on the walls but he didn't I must stop threatening the children with 'one more dirty mark and we move to Easterhouse flats with the penniless people' I am starting to believe my lies. He just asked 5 questions and left..

So I think I may well get to keep this house, dirty marks and all.

Thank goodness this week is almost over, I don't even have to leave the house until Tuesday if I don't wish to now!!! Oh that may be a worry, not a big fat of the contraceptive jab in the buttock, it's necessary through, it'sthat or roll around for a week every month in agony, then support worked on Tuesday after sore buttock (I'm getting clever here, planning things on the same day).

Then a week today I have to.... oh yes my psychologist for an hour (does anyone else crave a bed to lie on or is that just me?) then some policemen at 2pm (not in trouble I am always good, nervous wreck but not troublesome).

So all good here.

Hope everyone else is fine-ish. Try trick the anxiety by just GOING OUT AND DOING THINGS!! Okay, I do cave in sometimes but this week, so far so good!

I find if my children have to go somewhere, get the phone numbers of the parents better still take the children so you know where they are and can go get them at any point!

[QuiteQuiet]

alwaysworried can you get your DH to call you every hour or 2 ? Or even a text? Sure dd will be fine x

[CC77]

Hi, I'm so pleased to have found this support thread, can I join too?

I'm pretty sure I have an anxiety problem, and it has been getting a lot worse this year. At the moment I am the subject of a disciplinary issue at work, which has never happened to me before and is mortifying, and even before that I found myself getting irrationally cross with my children and husband to the point where I was questioning my sanity. For the first half of this year my dad was dying of cancer, then I got married in July which was stressful beyond belief, and then he died 2 weeks after that.

I was prescribed anti-anxiety medication about 10 years ago, and stopped after 12 months, but now I really think I need some more. I am terrified of talking to a doctor about it though as I'm scared I'll just be told to pull myself together (I know this could be irrational). I haven't had panic attacks this time, just feelings of panic, despair, major social phobia (school pick ups are a nightmare) and general low self esteem and negative thoughts.

It's good to 'talk' to fellow mums about this, as having children has given me all sorts of extra reasons to be anxious!

[3plus2]

Bad today feeling sick and stomach churning over :( convinced I've got a life threatening illness with every twinge :( I seriously need to get help

[alwaysworriedtoo]

I don't very often get the life threatening illness vibe as much now . Only because I reached a certain age and was suprised because I wasn't dead! Now (most of the time) I think well Iv'e felt like that before and it was whatever
My worst have been was when I was covinsed that I had bowel cancer and spinal cancer. Of course I hadn't, (but it might have been, the brain cries out and so always go to doctors with any strange or new symptoms) I had tests and stuff and I had 'mild' I.B.S ( probably made worse by stressing about it and worrying about it)and had trapped a nerve in my back which after physio recovered. The other was I thought I had a brain tumor after an aunt had died of one. I was having headaches and dizzyness and seemed to remember hearing that that was how my aunt(not blood related) had started. After going to doctors feeling doomed I was releaved to find out I suffer from Migrainous headaches. That explained why everytime I had a headache it was truly terrible!

I Hope your symptoms go away gracefully and leave you in peace to feel better very soon.