2022 positivity thread!

[dillydallydollydaydream7]

2022 is not far off and over the last few days I've been doing some thinking, and I am not going to let my health anxiety or OCD impact my life anymore going forward. I am SICK of googling symptoms, worrying every little ache and pain could be cancer, and generally panicking that I'm going to die early and leave my family behind.

I have a wonderful DH, 2 beautiful DD's and a lovely, happy family life. I will not let this take over me any more. I WILL take control of my anxiety and OCD.

Here's to a more positive 2022!

If anyone else feels they would like to, please jump aboard the thread

Hi @dillydallydollydaydream7

I'm with you! So tired of anxiety ruling my life, don't want to waste any more time ruminating on the 'what if's'. I'm up for doing something different in 2022!

Hi OP this is a lovely idea.
I am very up and down at the moment so often struggle to see the positive.
I do not want to waste my life being fretful about everything and dreading everything and seeing each day as a series of obstacles to get over until bedtime. That's not living it's existing.
I really want 2022 to be different ❤

@rainbowninja @wildthingsinthenight I'm so pleased you're on board with this! I totally agree with you both, it's always a series of 'what ifs' and it really is existing and not living. I feel we are all worth so much more than worrying the days away - we need to be positive and focus on any little thing that helps us be that little bit more positive

What a lovely idea, fellow OCD-er here with magical thinking issues, intrusive thoughts and ruminations as well as general anxiety.

I find thinking of a whole year really overwhelming at the moment but have started to set an intention for the month ahead so will be doing that instead. Going to be doing all I can to try and be/ stay positive but it’s so hard isn’t it.

Lovely idea, thanks OP x

@newhomenewworries you are very welcome, thank you for joining us

I think the idea of setting monthly intentions is great, whatever works best for you is always worth going with. It is really hard you're right - I'd love for us all to be able to look back on this thread this time next year and be able to say we've achieved something in relation to taking back control, no matter how big or how small x

A monthly intention is a great idea. It does help to break things right down and I find it I'm having a really bad day/week.then time is broken down to smaller and smaller increments. Very bad days I'm ticking off 15 minute slots. Sometimes minute by minute!

@dillydallydollydaydream7 thank you, I think my January intention needs to be acceptance- accepting that I am where I am atm and that I need to change but accepting that, rather than not addressing it, if that makes sense. And accepting myself as a person as well.

@wildthingsinthenight I feel you, there’s been times I’ve made a little excel spreadsheet for day by day and filled in each “completed” day with a colour to show I’ve gotten through it!

Oh I'm glad you started this thread @dillydallydollydaydream7, you're right, it's about trying to take back a bit of control and not letting anxiety run the show.

@wildthingsinthenight @newhomenewworries I've been there too on the tough days, surviving minute by minute and trying to work out what to do in the next 15 minutes and then the next. I'm so glad we are here to tell the tale and to still be up for fighting it 💐

I'm doing the same! not depression or anxiety but two personality disorders, i started taking Fluoxetine a couple of months ago to give myself time to get a dosage built up in my system and for it to begin working, noticed a difference pretty quickly but in the last week or so, I've been thinking of asking for the dose to be increased as there's been a couple of days I've struggled over the Christmas period. I've been working on a plan to keep myself focused, calm and controlled. Fingers crossed for a positive 2022 for all of us

Thank you @rainbowninja, I'm pleased it's going to be a help for us all.

@AutumnAnn I'm pleased medication is working for you and you've felt the benefit of it so quickly. I was prescribed sertraline a while ago but I tried not to take it, now I wish I did because I feel it might have helped take the edge of the worst times