A vicious circle - Anxious Anticipating Anxiety

[sunlight7]

Hey everyone, Tonight I’ve been having some bad anxiety and I’m not 100% sure why but i think I am anxious right now because I’m anticipating getting anxiety later. Last night when I was with my family, there was a lot of stimulation going on, and I got really bad anxiety and I also wanted want to leave the room but I felt guilty because they wanted to spend time with me and the dogs were in there prime time getting into stuff (ones still in that puppy phase). Usually when I feel anxious, I try to separate myself from whatever is giving me anxiety if I’m able to pinpoint it and if it’s something I can’t get away from for example, if it were a work project, I can’t really get away from that, but if it’s a lot of stimulation, I can leave the room and go somewhere quiet, I digress. Am I overthinking this or am I alone here with having anxiety because I’m afraid you’re gonna have anxiety if that makes sense?

 

[Friday]

Anticipatory stress….

…it has a name, so it’s not only a thing, but a common enough one to name!

 

[sunlight7]

Anticipatory stress….

…it has a name, so it’s not only a thing, but a common enough one to name!

Good to know. Glad I asked, thank you for the response.

 

[sunlight7]

Good to know. Glad I asked, thank you for the response.

I should have done my homework better. I feel a little silly for asking now. Lol

 

[Friday]

I should have done my homework better. I feel a little silly for asking now. Lol

Pfft.

No need to feel silly.

There are definitions, and then there’s lived experience. Worlds apart. I’m not in a place to talk lived experience, but could easily drop word that you weren’t alone or crazy.

 

[Freddyt]

I’m afraid you’re gonna have anxiety if that makes sense?

Oh heck yeah it makes sense. One of the big parts of this for me is rumination - that vicious circle of thoughts that thinks about and dreams up every worst case scenario under the sun.

Finding ways to break that cycle of thought is a challenge many of us face. You need something engaging enough to keep your mind away from those thoughts. Not easy sometimes but as a shameless plug - the Social forums here often work for that for me. Really. Thinking and typing and composing an answer has you thinking about that instead of feeding the whirlwind of thought......