Thread Re: Anxiety - ah, depression's tricky pal. For years, I was able to take the stresses of life. Anxiousness was just a human emotion. A little buzz. Then I got to know people who had anxiety and I learned so damn much. But you still don't really understand it. You can't.
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Not until you start experiencing it. Which I have the last couple years. This morning I had a full-on panic attack. It started with waking up earlier than I thought. I got a glass of water and tried going back to bed. Then...
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I couldn't sleep. My heart started racing. To the point it was going to leap out of my fucking chest. Sweating. Crying. Nausea. Every single thing in my life was wrong, and will go wrong. Something horrible was going to happen. Or happening now.
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What triggered it? Easy. I have lunch plans today and I still feel kind of full. Seriously, that's it. This boring, insipid, completely normal life detail sent my stupid body into a system-wide panic. And sometimes it takes NOTHING.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Your word-of-the-day: Catastrophizing. Seriously, look it up. Being able to name your demons correctly is the first step to self-exorcizing... Also exercising.
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I realize this is just meant to be helpful but I talk about the power of naming correctly later in the thread, I know what catastrophizing means, and exercise regularly.
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