Comments on: How To Cope With Anxiety

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:44:13 +0000

I’m pretty stressed out right now, but at the same time, I know that freaking out isn’t going to do anything to help the situation, I just have to get up and do something about it, instead of sticking my head in the sand and hoping it rights itself.

By: KcGeek

KcGeek — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:33:36 +0000

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By: Burrowowl

Burrowowl — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:39:49 +0000

I know some people that have had anxiety attacks. They have described it as a pretty bad situation, but didn’t play it off as being the result of a mass of even half-rational fears. I fully accept fear as a proper emotional response to a variety of situations, reasonably-predictable and often entirely appropriate. I’m not so sure that what I’ve had described to me as “anxiety attacks” were caused by fear at all; they just had symptoms we commonly associate with fear.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:00:16 +0000

I consider myself a strong person. However, anxiety is somthing I am learning to deal with that I never thought I’d have a problem with. I still have a lot of anxiety issues from my last relationship, where I lived in fear of arguments from her insecurities. I was scared to talk to people and I never felt I was good enough. Even now, direct calls to my desk from outside lines get my heartrate up higher than I’d like, because that is how she normally called me and very few others do. I’ve even found it difficult to be open and comfortable dating now in the aftermath. It’s a fear that I am not used to having and that I didn’t know I had until I wasn’t in the situation anymore. And now it simply haunts me on a daily basis. Fortunately, my friends and family are coming back into my life and they support me. I just have a lot of things to work thru in my head again before I feel like myself. It’s sad that I tolerated everything that I did. I suppose I am a victim of emotional abuse. But at least I am opening up now instead of holding that fear inside. I just have to face my pain and learn to trust again. At least I came away knowing what not to do, so now I can do it better.