Discussion Healthy Anxiety?

[CFLoser]

Hello. Anxiety has been on my mind the past few days as it struck me that some depressed people will physically hurt themselves to curb anxiety. Meaning that unsolved anxiety is SO SHITTY that physical pain in the moment is better than worrying about something in the future.

I want to create a thread about solving Anxiety, not necessarily curing it but getting it to a place where it helps you more than it hurts.

Has anyone had success with dealing with anxiety long term?

 

[down for the count]

No, i haven't but it could be done through improving one's self-efficacy or ability to deal with life's challenges. For example improving social anxiety could be done by dealing with social situations successfully. Once you feel like you can deal with whatever comes your way your anxiety will lessen at least theoretically. This could be done with any problem.

 

[stellabelle]

Hello. Anxiety has been on my mind the past few days as it struck me that some depressed people will physically hurt themselves to curb anxiety. Meaning that unsolved anxiety is SO SHITTY that physical pain in the moment is better than worrying about something in the future.

I want to create a thread about solving Anxiety, not necessarily curing it but getting it to a place where it helps you more than it hurts.

Has anyone had success with dealing with anxiety long term?

No. Nothing stops it. People just taunt and taunt and taunt and taunt more.
They lie and lie and lie and lie.
Swept under the rug. Imagine being the little girl failing school because you're too anxious about what's going to happen to you when you get home. Another violent attack day in and day out. What a routine.

Being told what a "failure" you are/will be and how you'll never get away from abuse or abusers.
Never being able to cope with that.
Never getting justice for it.
Well. Might as well just die since everyone else has a great life.

 

[tagicoco]

It's difficult with anxiety andI I'm still working against it, I think for me at least, a lot gets worse when it becomes a duality between mind and body, I get so angry and frustrated at my body for getting anxious, for shaking and breaking and failing for not doing what I want it to do. I had been told in CBT therapy that it was "mind over matter", but I realised that I could not force my body into feeling differently whatever I tried, the feelings would highjack my attempts. That cutting or getting high or drunk were all methods of attempting to control the mind, that "mind over matter" is a lie, and if my body was sick and nauseous and weak that it was not necessary to overcome it, but to nurture and care the same way. That the mind is the body, and ignoring any mystical bullshit, physically my brain and body is in debt to physical hormones and affects of a mental state. My health anxiety often flares up in my worse mental periods as I know my self-care is worse and I am spiralling. I think the only way we can combat it is to stop defining the physical body as separate from your mental self. As long as you allow yourself to separate, then hurting and punishing the physical form to somehow aid the mental health will appear to be a solution.