Well, since a little more than one year, I suffer from anxiety, I've been smoking pot for a few years, but the anxiety suddenly came in while sme real life problems and stressful events and people were invading my mind... Since then, I stopped smoking, and slowly am getting out of my anxiety. The advice I am asking for is that how shall I stop worrying over nothing important or really bad, because people tend to tell me I get over-worried on easily solved problems... What advices can you give to such a person like me, who worries and get nervous over stupidities...?
I'm just the same, recently I've been pretty anxious and getting physical symptoms with it. I'm also a nurse, so have been trying to put theory into practice. Take sometime out during the day and do something that you enjoy - music, walking, swimming etc. Perhaps put some relaxing music on and do some breathing exercises. Try and get fresh air and do soemthing to occupy your mind. It's all psychological - think about why you are feeling anxious, what you do when you get anxious etc Also, maybe try some CBT techniques - it allows you to see what m,ay be causes your anxiety and what you can do to change it, if you want some more info I can try and help! Cannabis does increase anxiety, as it does depression.
Yes, I am willing for the advices about the CBT techniques. And it's true cannabis increases the thing, and my advice is to not smoke while anxious/depressed...
When I was studying we learnt a few models, but the one I found the easiest and which I try and use is the Padeski model. It looks at how thoughts, emotions, behaviour and physical symptoms are all connected and are all affected by the environment/ situation we are in. Say one's anxiety was caused by a failing an exam (the situation) The thoughts might be - failure, thinking you are rubbish, let people down, can't do anything right etc The emotion might be - disapointment, sadness, guilt The behvaiour might be - avoiding doing anymore work or working excessively to prevent further failure. The physical symptoms might be - palpitations, headaches, stomach aches, sickness The idea is that all these are connected from the situation you are in. Then if you have another exams and fail - it reinforces your beliefs that you are no good. Try writing down what you feel for each and then write a problem statement - such as "I feel anxious about failing again and this leads me to worry constantly" Then change it with a goal statement - such as "I would like to feel ok about failing and speak to lecturers for support" By looking at what you feel and what may have caused it helps to break things up and make it easier to tackle. Sometimes it can be hard to think about all the things until they are written down, then you can try and break the chain. Just remember that things go wrong or whatever and it doesn't mean that you have done anything wrong or are rubbish at anything! Look at the chain and see if you can see what causes what and where you can try breaking the chain. Sorry if that isn't explained very well!
yes but you can never predict the future. i suffer from horrible horrible anxiety. almost everytime i leave the house. it seems like anytime there is a situation where i have to leave my safety zone, or im not in control, or i have some kind of time constraint i get it. I get really bad stomach cramps and nasea. What can I do? I had this really bad when i was a kid...then for a little while i became and alcoholic and I didn't give a fuck about anything and it went away. Now, it is coming back even worse than before and I have no clue how to deal with it. It is basically ruining my life. I get so nervous about everything.....
Same here. Stomach ache, nausea---got so bad I lost a job because of it. kind of ironic: I was so stressed about possibly loosing my job the stress made me loose my job. I don't know what's more stressfull; having a job or not having one. For me the best medicine seems to be talking things over with someone who has a very calm, relaxed, easy going way that rubs off on me. It's a good antidote for someone who grew up with a mother who was a huge drama queen like I did.
That sounds like a good approach. Sometimes just writing everything down helps a little because when it's all swirling around in your head, you can't really work with it like you can when it's on paper. Otherwise your just in a mental blizzard of troubling thoughts and can't focus on any one of them, but just get overwhelmed by all of them. I tend to worry excessively about other people...for no really good reason. I'm glad I don't have kids yet. I can't imagine the worry wart kind of parent I would be. I'd probably drive myself and my kids nuts.
I've been using Klonipin (an antianxiety drug) for PTSD. It does help sometimes, but it seems like my body develops a high tolerance to it so fast that it only works if I only take it once in a .
