Anxiety puts your life in a standstill?

[avocado]

Does any one else feel like their life is at a standstill when they’re experiencing a period of high anxiety? Hard to explain. I feel like everything is just a blur, I lose focus on my long term goals, and my life is just stuck. It takes a few weeks just to feel normal again.

 

[E.B]

Yes all very normal when going through a season of anxiety.

 

[youcanhelpyourself]

I've had anxiety for over 30 years. But I overcame anxiety and panic attacks few years ago. Now life has new meaning for me. I even wrote an article on how I cured my anxiety. I have uploaded a pdf file. I think you will enjoy reading it!

 

[am6985]

For me it isn’t necessarily my long terms goals that are put on hold. But my daily goals are put on hold. It’s hard to live life daily when all you can focus on is the anxious thoughts.


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[Nutmeg]

Does any one else feel like their life is at a standstill when they’re experiencing a period of high anxiety? Hard to explain. I feel like everything is just a blur, I lose focus on my long term goals, and my life is just stuck. It takes a few weeks just to feel normal again.

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I was stuck this way for the past couple of days, and it’s been absolutely awful. I mostly slept or stared in to space. All because I had worried myself crazy about something and couldn’t stop the rumination.

 

[OafFish]

I've been at a standstill so long I think there's no way forward anymore

 

[Jonathan123]

It's sometime called 'depersonalisation' and is very common in anxiety. Our minds get tired and tend to partially shut off so that thinking can be difficult. Concentrating can be difficult also. But it is usually a passing phase. OK, be like it, let it come, but ACCEPT it as something that will pass if we don't try to stop it! All the OMG's and 'what ifs' are what keeps it going because it adds fear to fear. It is so difficult for a sufferer to realise that so much, in fact all of our reactions are normal reactions to fear. We frighten ourselves by being afraid of normal reactions. Fear will always act in the same way to the mind and body. The mind senses danger, the brain responds to its master and sends fight/flight signals to the body which responds with all the symptoms of anxiety we all know so well. If only we could grasp the normality of what is happening! That one four letter word is at the root of it all. FEAR! But we become mesmerised by what we feel, like a rabbit in a car's headlights. We are afraid to move and do something about it 'just in case'. Once again, acceptance, total acceptance.