A different perspective..

[Kmeyeraa11]

I hope everyone’s having a great day/ night!

This is just another perspective to look at anxiety and depression..

Think about this:
Your thoughts make you anxious. Your intrusive thoughts, the ones that make you second guess yourself. The way you look at and see things makes you anxious. If you’re busy and actively doing things keeping occupied, are you anxious? Or are you anxious once you think about it? If you’re sitting at home, are you anxious? Or are you anxious once you think about it?

I think people try too hard and that is the problem. You just have to let go. Work on and focus on your thoughts and how you think of things.

Recall a time where you felt anxious or down and think about what thoughts were going on in your mind and why.

Your anxiety wants control. By continuing to constantly try new things to feel better and constantly thinking about it, you’re only feeding it. Let go.

If you give a complaining child what it wants and attention, it will keep acting up. Just like anxiety.

Let go and life your life, focus on improving your thoughts but don’t focus on your anxiety. If that makes sense?

By no means am I saying other methods are invalid, if something works for you then that’s great. I wrote this to help people if it seems like nothing else is working. Give this a try, but don’t try (if you understand what I’m saying).

Remember: Exercise and eat well to take care of your body!

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Kmeyeraa11, I agree with you that a person's belief system plays a part in how anxious and nervous they often feel. Your thoughts can make you anxious if they're unhealthy thoughts.

 

[Kmeyeraa11]

Kmeyeraa11, I agree with you that a person's belief system plays a part in how anxious and nervous they often feel. Your thoughts can make you anxious if they're unhealthy thoughts.

Yes and is that not what anxiety is? Worrying about things caused by thoughts?

 

[Brad66]

You can't think yourself out of being anxious, sad, or depressed. You can only act your way out of it, and by act I mean take action (not faking happy).

I have my bad days, especially at work, where my mind just won't stop. On those days when I get home I just try and do something constructive that I can feel good about. Tonight was one of those nights so I cooked a complicated meal for my wife, played with my dogs, exercised a little longer than I usually would, and cleaned up my office (it needed it). Had I come home and tried to play video games or watch TV it would have been a long night. I still don't feel completely myself but at least my wife is happy with me and tomorrow might be better.

 

[smilingsoul]

There's some confusion of terms there; worry vs. anxiety. These aren't the same thing, although they do overlap. Anxiety is a physiological state of heightened sensitivity to the world around us, mediated by adrenaline and the flight/fight/freeze system. My wife worries, but she doesn't suffer considerably from it, nor does it prevent her from functioning in work, recreation, or socializing. I rarely worry, but when my anxiety is high its like my body is reacting to a truck bearing down on me, although no truck is actually there. This can happen in the middle of the night, waking with my heart pounding, sweating and shaking. Undoubtedly, that can then lead to worry about not getting enough sleep, or fearing a months-long relapse is coming, or about how I would handle it if I was away from home. None of that would make settling down any easier, sure, but those aren't the things that set it off. Unfortunately, there is no one thing that sets it off. Sometimes it seems to come out of the blue, sometimes events that are naturally stressful to anyone sort of set a hair trigger that kicks into anxiety from some minor provocation.