HOW I BATTLE ANXIETY AND WIN!
Anxiety is a rotten
thief that tries to steal our happiness away, and anxiety can only
occur when you're not focused on something that advances your life from the smallest thing like making your bed and then look at the progress and it feels good. (I had to learn the hard way
and I suffered SEVERELY! My anxiety got so terrible that I had to be
admitted to the hospital. I found that
keeping busy doing anything at all helps. ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE
When I feel the
anxiety starting, I consider it a challenge and a fight that I must win,
(This takes a real creative effort) I try to quickly focus on anything (one of my hobbies like drawing, logging onto 7Cups, Playing a few games of chess online, etc. Nothing
hard but maybe looking at your cellphone's photo
gallery, or looking / reading through old text messages and maybe sending
a
text with a creatively edited photo. I use 7Cups as a distraction often (which is what
brought me here tonight). When our thoughts are blank, the anxiety
sneaks in, but when we are focused on something (Productive, Practical, Positive and/or creative),
it diverts our attention and hence we no longer are paying attention to
anxiety. Learn to hate anxiety and start finding creative distractions
and look for ways like singing out-loud, or listening to the radio while
sketching a silly doodle, or doing a crossword puzzle. I write poems
about my anxiety also. I make little to do lists so I can keep my thoughts directed at progress in my life. Keep it simple and give yourself a lot of self care!
Blessings, Day
PERCEPTION
Perceiving what we believe in is deceiving and has
no meaning as life's mistreating dishes out this beating leaving us
--TRIGGERWARNING--
bleeding..... But we cant see it if we
close our minds, and we cant think about this when we're blind, so walk
away and you will find, a friend here waiting for a sign! So take your
time and organize whats on your mind and you'll find you're not really
behind, so relax your eyes and realize you're fine just the way you are.
And you can reach for the stars, put cream on the scars and healing
transpires. The delusional parts only confuse our goals and corrupt our
souls leaving us with a heart full of holes. Set goals now and your mind
will see what closed eyes have failed to believe, don't let sight
deceive keeping us on our knees; throwing logic into the breeze. Winds
at your back excited, Winds of hope reignited me. Step by step confide
so we can share the secrets of life ......thinking "what could be" If we
let it, if you hold back you'll regret it.
There, Now I've gone and said it!
We
hold ourselves down; Dirty on the ground I've found myself tormented
and bound by invisibility. I've ignored all possibility, so I must set
myself free of a self-inflicted confined mystery that causes so much
mind-bending misery.
@juliak1968 (Now I've added ''& PTSD'' to the title)
