Tornadoes Do Not Help Anxiety!!

[FindingMyself88]

I live in North Alabama (Birmingham) and we were under a Tornado Warning for almost 3 hours and had several touchdown tornadoes in towns around the Birmingham Metro area. As if my anxiety and dissociating wasn't already acting up enough, this intensified it. Spent an hour and a half curled up in corner between bed and wall with my parents which was TOO close to my mother for my taste (read my latest most about her being home and you'll understand)! Now I am physically exhausted, can barely walk, but yet I can't sleep :((

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I was bad here today too. I totally understand.

https://www.myptsd.com/threads/terrible-weather-anxiety.23809/

 

[FindingMyself88]

Did y'all have any damage, I know Mississippi did and around me. My biggest fear was that it might keep me from seeing my therapist tomorrow, but it looks like it isn't going to get bad again until tomorrow night. I hate bad weather!

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

No. Towards the end of the day there was a lot of worry about flooding and there still is right now. Tomorrow is bad weather again. I am hopeful that it will be okay. Every time I check tomorrow's weather the news gets a small amount better.

It's awful to think it's just the start of the season. When the sirens go off I just think about all the places in the world I could live that don't make me brake out in a sweat and hope to die quickly.

 

[FindingMyself88]

that is good! tomorrow isnt suppose to be as bad here either, just thunderstorms.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I think about having this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astraphobia

But I don't find my fear to be irrational.

 

[FindingMyself88]

Interesting, if it causes you fear and anxiety at any bad weather then its a possibility! I'm normally okay unless there are tornado warnings and I'm not home alone. tonight had tornadoes plus its been a bad week for me.

 

[TLight]

I was in a bad earthquake when my symptoms and stress were extremely high. It really did a number on me too.......
Ride the waves. In the big picture of things you are entirely safe.......I tell myself it's not my True higher self that is in danger, it's just my biological human form responding with all it's chemicals and crap. But this human form is not who we truly are. I try to remind myself of that constantly.......it's just the animal self.

 

[FindingMyself88]

@TLight thank you for sharing, that is a very good way of looking at it and very much needed right now. It has started storming again and we are under a tornado watch, not a warning yet but they do expect it. I did get to see my therapist today so that helped too. Right now I am just trying to keep painting as it keeps me calm.

funny you said animals…I'm painting a bird right now lol