Traveling is high up on most people's to do list. It's almost a cliche to hear someone say something like "I'd like to X, Y, Z and travel someday". And it's obvious why - who wouldn't want to go see the world? Well you can count me as one of the few that doesn't. Now let me make clear that I would love to see the Pyramids at Giza, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Great Wall of China, so on and so forth. I would love to see these places in living color and not just in a book or film. However, like many people with anxiety, I have a fear of
All By Yourself
Feeling alone in a room full of people really sucks. There is just no poetic way of summing up the feeling of loneliness that an anxiety disorder can produce in a person. I have literally been in a room with hundreds of people and have felt absolutely no connection to either them or the fun they seem to be having. Is this really surprising though? As an anxious "what ifer" many of our thoughts are aimed inward and can be negative and also repeat incessantly. When we get stuck in the quagmire that is anxious brooding all we can do is think
Chat Room Addition
Having an anxiety disorder is lonely business. You're always wondering if there are other people like you out there. Well let me assure you that there are and many of them are not only looking for information but also support. It may take a little time for my readers to take notice of the new chat room, but hopefully it proves useful. I'll leave the chat room up for awhile to see if people take advantage of it. Tell me what you think? Will you be using the chat room?
What Smart People Say About Fear and Anxiety
Have you ever had a thought and heard someone else say or write something similar but way better? Yea me too and it happens very frequently. There is something special about a set of words that becomes a reference. It's usually a basic insight that you have had but could never articulate. Here you'll find some of those sets of words that have become mantras in many lives and potential ammo for our hope of living a life free of anxiety. 1. "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live". - Dorothy Thompson This is a
The Modern Anxiety Epoch
As an anxiety sufferer it is normal to feel like you're all alone in the world. But according to some studies you are part of a growing number of people with an anxiety disorder. Some scientist believe that as much as 16% of the worlds population will have prolonged anxiety during their lifetime. That means that out of the worlds current population of 6.6 billion people a little over a billion of us will have problems with anxiety. Clearly you have plenty of company and you are by no means a special case. In fact, anxiety disorder is one of
Dental Debacle
I usually don't talk about myself on this blog in specific terms. I generalize a lot and do so to drive home the fact that I experience what you experience on a regular basis. So although my blog is about anxiety disorders and not me per se today I wanted to share a little story about my visit to the dentist which went from not so great to fantastically horrible in about 2 minutes. This particular dental experience was by far the worst ever. Despite my general anxiety disorder I usually do well at the dentist's office. This is because I
Losing Relationships to Anxiety
After I developed generalized anxiety disorder I began to get tremendously focused on only that. I lost interest in a lot of the things that I used to like and instead spent my time worrying. But as I worried I failed to notice that I was starting to lose friends in the process. I stopped going places so people stopped inviting me to go out. When I did go out I couldn't drink or relax so I became something of a bore. I would usually chalk up my loss of friends to regular relationship attrition. I figured that as you get older you naturally
Just Say No To Anxiety Drugs
Today I wanted to talk about anti-anxiety drugs and whether or not we should be taking them. Let me just start by saying that although the title of today's post is "just say no" maybe a better way of understanding my viewpoint on this issue is "just say no - most of the time". There is a great debate out in the world about whether or not people should be taking drugs to correct any health issue. There are many proponents of holistic healing and natural remedies who feel that drugs are not the answer to illness. On the
How To Reconnect With Loved Ones
Today I wanted to touch on a subject that I have struggled with for years. That issue is the connection, or lack thereof, with the people we love. This problem is not just between you and your significant other, but also between you and your sibling, parent(s), friends or even your dog. As I have mentioned many times in the past our anxiety disorders tend to make us selfish worrymites that only think about our disturbing thoughts or symptoms and how they are affecting us. During this worry time we exclude others from our lives and seem
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