A graphic look at anxiety...
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Re: A graphic look at anxiety...
I have a lot of anxiety about that pie chart not being round.
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Re: A graphic look at anxiety...
It's not that far off to be fair... in my late 20s I was having a miserable time. Permanently angry, sometimes a touch manic, suicidal, etc. I thought I was depressed. Went to the Doctor's at my partner's urging (possibly insistence) and went through a diagnostic. Came back with anxiety.
It made absolute sense when I examined the way I felt but it had never occurred to me that it could be anxiety - I am incredibly self-confident and outgoing.
A course of beta blockers followed, along with the scariest most awful hallucinations known to man. But... they allowed me to develop a coping mechanism, I learned to distract myself as my anxiety started to rise and focus on something else. It's not perfect and it's made it much harder to quit smoking (dealing with physical withdrawal is easy - but about a week after that... my anxiety levels start to spike viciously and even 4-6 months down the line, it gets no better - and I've returned to the smokes each time because of it - there's only so long you can use Xanax to keep calm without becoming addicted...) but it is something.
If someone had told me that anxiety could be crippling to your emotional and mental welfare before I had been diagnosed; I think I would have laughed.
It made absolute sense when I examined the way I felt but it had never occurred to me that it could be anxiety - I am incredibly self-confident and outgoing.
A course of beta blockers followed, along with the scariest most awful hallucinations known to man. But... they allowed me to develop a coping mechanism, I learned to distract myself as my anxiety started to rise and focus on something else. It's not perfect and it's made it much harder to quit smoking (dealing with physical withdrawal is easy - but about a week after that... my anxiety levels start to spike viciously and even 4-6 months down the line, it gets no better - and I've returned to the smokes each time because of it - there's only so long you can use Xanax to keep calm without becoming addicted...) but it is something.
If someone had told me that anxiety could be crippling to your emotional and mental welfare before I had been diagnosed; I think I would have laughed.
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Re: A graphic look at anxiety...
Good post, Grinch.
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