So many suffers with high anxiety! How do you cope/deal with symptoms?

[granadagirl]

So today anxiety is sky high, it’s usually high nearly most days.

I can’t stop the thoughts going round my head, legs feel like jelly and anxious feeling going through body.
I really wish you could turn the symptoms off just as quick as they turn on.
DP is understanding to a point, but must be sick off me taking about what can I do, how do I stop this, what would you do etc
Then when I don’t like what he’s saying or know it’s not easy or copeable for me at that time to do I get defensive and it turns into me feeling more bad about myself and what NOT a life I’ve got.

35 yrs on and I’m no better, it’s never gone completely. I do a few years of being able to cope then wham it’s back, this bout is nearly 2 years.

Today I feel like I’m going backwards, going to Gp won’t help as there nothing more she can do. I’m on meds, had cbt, counselling and that’s all that’s available to me in my area. I feel it’s a vicious circle over and over.

No real advise, but sorry to hear you are struggling just now. Is there anything you feel has helped in the past?

Breathing excersise helps me when mine's rocketed, especially during panic attacks.

I breath in for 4 seconds and out for 8.
Fee round of that and I feel so much calmer.

J
I had CBT, meds too. Didn't take the meds as was too anxious about having a allergic reactions vicious circle indeed.
The CBT did give me some really useful information about how to control it.
I work go anymore as my therapist left the job. I should really go back.

Hand hold for you OP!

Nothing really helped I don’t think, just time probably days off not being anxious as much and able to go out and feel relaxed
I do use headspace more so recently everyday, it’s the breathing
When doing it, I can feel my chest area with an heavy feeling( not good at explaining) and feel like I’m making myself breath rather than natural

But calmer now, but know tomorrow it will all begin again aghh

Thanks ladies

I don't cope sometimes. I lose my shit, snap at my boss, get irritable with everyone and shut myself away from people.

Some things that help for me are keeping a diary. Nothing with dates or anything just a pretty notebook to write about how I'm feeling so that I can get it out without people getting sick of me talking about it. Regular massage. I go anyway due to a spinal problem and it does help settle my anxiety as well. Probably because I always see the same guy so it's kind of social too.
Making time for myself just to be on my own and uncontactable. The world can fuck off for a few hours.

I keep a diary too, just to sometimes remind myself that
“ that I went, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought”

how anxious I was that day, IBS, rentching, nausea etc
I do have a lot of time to myself, don’t work and no young kids
That’s not my problem, it’s the pushing through the anxiety and not letting it win. Leaving me a curled up wreck on the sofa scared to go out