It's okay to tell my anxiety to "get lost".
Sometimes, when I feel anxious, I feel scared that losing my anxiety will make me less vigilant, which will cause me to miss something, and I will suffer as a consequence. I become afraid that without my anxiety, I won't be myself; that I would somehow be lying to the world. But I think that's just my anxiety lying to me, so that I will keep it around. Recently, I have given myself permission to enjoy those anxious-free moments and it feels really great.
Are there any times that you have successfully told your anxiety to beat it? Does your anxiety try to retaliate? What things does it say to you, to reason its way insidiously back into your mind?
@Larzipan I think that I try to kick my anxiety out because the best way to really remember things is to go onto your calendar and set alarms on your phone to remember. I can understand what you're saying about how you might suffer and forget something, but if you do write everything down on an online or physical calendar to remember, I guarantee the anxiety will be ultimately useless unless you forget to look at the calendar itself. What do you think about this?
I feel the same way sometimes, like the anxiety is part of your personality and you can’t change it no matter how much you try , my anxiety is really bad like that , i miss work and school because of it and dont like to be around ppl when im feeling this way ! It’s horrible feeling…
