Forcing Anxiety

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I'm new to the board:wave:

Just a question. Do those of you suffering anxiety tend to force more of it upon yourself? Like, when I'm feeling anxious, it's almost like I force myself to think negative thoughts, and thus feel worse. Does that make sense?

Some days I feel like I try to think of the most horrid things I can, almost as though to psychologically test myself. Is that weird?
 
I understand what you mean. Sometimes I accidentally do that, although I don't mean to think about negative things. I find that the best thing to do is just try to keep busy to avoid thinking about that. I'll even do puzzles or something that makes me think about the puzzle itself, rather than other thoughts. I like to play a game of sudoku when I want to distract myself, or I listen to some good music on my ipod. It takes time, but it's definitely something you can try to stop from happening! Good luck!
 
Thanks for your reply:) I LOVE puzzles, so that would probably be a good idea for me.
 
YES! it's so weird...it's like im trying to test myself to see if i can handle it & if i can it makes me feel good, but if not, i feel like crap. I dont understand why i do it.
 
That's it...in a nutshell! It's like a psychological test with yourself. I think "If I can stand it, then I must be getting better, or the meRAB must be working."
 
I know exactly what you mean, that last few weeks at the gym I've experienced a few attacks. I was doing some cardio as my heart started to work harder and faster all of sudden it just started fraking me out and my heart just started racing like crazy. Everytime it happened I did manage to snap out of the attack after a few minutes, but one time I really felt like my hear was going to explode.

Anyways ever since the first one everytime I;m doing cardio its like I almost think about my heart pounding to see if I can make it happen again or really to see that even if i feel my heart pounding that so what I won;t get all panicky about it.

Its like I'm testing myself to see if I can handle it and one time I actually created the anxiety attack by doing this, instead of just trying to not think about it.

Weird - but I know exactly what you mean -
 
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