Monday Morning. We can all do this.

[WingsofNylon]

I find the anticipation of the coming week hard on my mental health. I'm going to guess that others do too.

Whatever you are facing, you do have the strength. Even if you don't feel it yet.

I can do it, you can do it, we can all do it!

Come and share words of encouragement and your Monday aims.

I'm going imagine I have a team of enthusiastic cheerleaders behind me all day. Backing up every positive decision I make.

That sounds a good method!

I worry about my 13 year old DD and anxiety. We’ve had a few times where she’s needed more support with things and I want her to have more strategies to deal with it. She might go for that one

Feeling much better after spending a couple of days with close friends and family, still very buzzy though and sleep a bit patchy still.

OK finally feeling better, bit of a shame that my week off work is nearly over. Maybe it would have been useful to have booked a few more days off so that I had more time to enjoy being off work instead of stressing, but I didn’t and here we are. Plus I am missing the structure of work and the interaction with my colleagues as well.

How is everyone feeling?

I'm on edge. Our ndn has been making so much noise all day. And is still banging away. I'm so angry with them. They are the definition of inconsiderate. Also there is a very real chance that I will be made redundant tomorrow so this two combined are making a very worked up Wings!

I'm loving the technique of screaming at anxiety. Will have to try that one myself soon.

Wishing you are anxiety free Mondays.

I'm really really nervous. It's my first day tomorrow and I feel really overwhelmed. I'm worried I'll oversleep and I'm simultaneously worried I'll not sleep at all.

I'm flying to Alicante in 5 hours!! Ereeeek! I'm such a nervous flier, working myself up like crazy.

Up with an anxiety attack after a Sunday lunch with friends where I was all strident feministy and now worrying that the friends I have known for a decade hate me. It’s so irrational, I hate feeling like this. DH is quietly slumbering next to me and I am working myself up into a full panic. Ridiculous.

My @ drop-down don't work so risk spelling errors.

New dolly cricket sorry you are all feeling the worry. Did any of you manage sleep? Thankfully I did. I am distracting myself from thinking about work. That way I won't talk myself into not going.

Would reflecting one one with. Help anyone? Something you did to help make today a bit easier for yourself? I made myself breakfast to take to work. That's a big deal for me, thinking ahead and making a healthy choice is usually bottom of my list. I may not have a job by the end of the day (out of my control) but I will have given myself nutrition and not junk (in my control).

Well my flight was due to leave 20 mins ago. We are now sat in a broken plane at manchester airport while they try to find another. Not happy!

dolly they are your friends. I too would feel nervous in your shoes (because I analyse all social interactions way too much) but they like you. If you are worried that they might have been personally hurt (for example felt like you were judging them) then maybe contact them about something positive but totally unrelated to remind them of your friendship? I hope that makes sense.

Argh! That is frustrating. I was about to ask you what your flying tips were and suggest music. It is the sheer noise of a pal e that I find hard. Has this development made you more or less anxious? How is your DS? Assuming you are traveling as a family.

Morning everyone. I’m a bit up and down generally. Currently not wanting to get out of bed as is cold out there and warm in here. Good thing I work from home as I start at 8.

Yes me, husband and 2 kidlets. I'm now panicking about the transfers we booked privately that are expecting us to land at 10.30 when it's looking like it's now gonna be 11.30 at the earliest!! They are still sorting a plane for us!

Ooh had days off and now more nervous again

Am going to be having a telephone assessment for nhs counselling between 9 and 10. Is again good I work from home. Have filled in a questionnaire ahead of it which would again show I appear to have anxiety and depression which isn’t exactly a surprise

Thanks wings. It's so silly, reasonably I know the stuff I'm beating myself up over is nothing but I've got myself into a weird little anxious hole and feel a bit trapped. Sitting at work hoping I can be as invisible as possible today, I just don't feel like I have any resilience for the real world today

Hope the assessment goes well miranda.

Overthinking everything today. Am premenstrual which is not helping. Lots going on and am happy but anxious I guess.

Assessment went all right - seems there are group CBT sessions available that are lectures with a workbook and after that you can maybe have something else. Feel it is all rather hard work. Am seeing GP tomorrow to discuss medication and am taking Dh with me as we’re both not sure I would get my points across.

Bank has texted saying they’re going to call me at 1:30. Am now anxious wondering what that’s about. Also anxious as haven’t seen Cat for a little while and it’s raining (the cat is one of my anxiety triggers, or at least not having seen the cat for a while is)

This is my time off until I start work again around 5 and feel I am wasting it rather than achieving anything

Have continued to waste time. No sign of Cat which makes me feel very anxious.

I do really wish my life weren’t going the way it is at the moment.

(Also would prefer not to be working this evening but that is a normal thing to feel
I think)

Found cat. Have shut Cat in (which may or may not be what Cat wants but is better for me). Have stripped beds and put a load of washing in.
Am calming down a bit

@mirandawest I am exactly the same about our cat, funnily enough I've spent the best part of today obsessing that I might have accidentally locked him out this morning before I left. I know I didn't, I'm sure of it... but the thought keeps coming into my mind of him being trapped out now it's dark. I really, really don't like him being out when it's dark but in winter it's hard as we don't get in until 6.30 and it's already dark at 5.

I prefer to make the cat flap entry only so he can only get out once during the day but DH says it's cruel and I need to tackle my anxiety rather than keep him in. Which I know makes sense, but....

I’m sort of glad it’s not just me. I hope your Cat is safely where he should be. Ours is a black cat and apart from the anxiety over her having gone missing I don’t want a black cat out in the dark

I survived and it's bloody brilliant

Really glad it went well

@NewYoiker Delighted for you!