Is it possible to stop anxiety ruining your life?

[Littlemiss74]

I don’t think I’m normal. I worry about things to a ridiculous degree, things that haven’t even happened yet. I worry about family members, my children/dh, health, trying to keep up with being a mum & working, everything.
I can’t tell anyone as I don’t think anyone I know worries like this. I feel pathetic that i waste so much time and energy worrying. My dh knows I’m a worrier but when I try to talk to him about a specific worry he says, ‘stop worrying, wait & see, that hasn’t even happened yet, we’ll deal with it if & when it does’. He doesn’t worry about anything until it actually happens. How do people manage to be like that?

I am on a’d’s, HRT & having counselling but still worry. Sometimes I can’t concentrate on anything except the current worry going round & round in my head. It feels horrible, as if I will never be able to live a truly happy life.

Why are some people like this I wonder? Has anyone ever been like this & managed to stop it? 😔

Was your mum, or another significant adult in your childhood, a worrier? We learn more about "how to be in the world" in the first few years of our lives than at any other time - sadly before we have the mental capacity to decide if what we are learning is actually true.

Have a look at this Ted X - hopefully it'll help you better understand what anxiety is, why we need it and how to work with it rather than fight it;