Do you think you'll ever live an anxiety free life?

[Ashley0323]

I do not think I will ever live life without anxiety. I think I have had it so long (since I was about 12) that it is part of who I am now. I refuse to get on any meds for it and I just cope. Luckily, I do think I can get through life with anxiety, just learn to deal in certain sitautions.

 

[John Snort]

It's possible to permanently overcome anxiety. However you need to identify the underlying issues and deal with them. You need to keep fighting because it takes incessant fighting to win. It might demand much: self help + some therapy but the end result would be an anxiety free life for you. Just keep believing that you'll live an anxiety free life and in the end you'll have your heart's desire.

 

[deanyd_17]

I don't believe such a thing exists, for us or for anyone else. If we have something, there is always the potential to lose it. This will produce anxiety to one degree or another. I think that if our goal is to eliminate anxiety completely, we are fooling ourselves. An aim for reduced anxiety, a life characterized primarily by peace should be our goal.


Remain hopeful that we may attain such peace. To seek more is folly.

 

[Laneorexorcist]

Nope, not at all. Even if anxiety is a really bad thing, I think that it's always going to be there. But what I really think that is going to change is the fact that soon or later I will finally learn to cope with it, to manage it, but I think that's not something that I personally can overcome. It's also have became a part of my life... Just like a really awkward but good friend, I guess.

 

[Kelleyann409]

Oh, I hope so! I don't remember "always" having anxiety. For me it seems to be a relatively new occurrence. It started about a year ago, as my son hit puberty! It started small, I was worried when he was off by himself with friends. I worried about school. I worried about him growing up. What parent doesn't? But it started to take more and more of a hold on my.


I think in part, it is a new chapter in my life and I do need to get used to my son growing older and separating from me and becoming his own person.


So I do hope maybe as I grow and become used to this new stage in my life, my anxiety will lessen or become more infrequent; but right now, I don't know if I am confident enough to think it will every truly go away. I will keep my fingers crossed in the meantime! =)

 

[ErinPaige]

I can only hope so... I believe a lot of my anxiety comes from my current living conditions. Hopefully I'll get some relief once my living situation improves, but even then, I don't see my anxiety ever going away for good...

 

[rz3300a]

Well unfortunately I think that my pessimistic and cynical nature about most things really prevents me from thinking that I will, but then again who really knows what will happen in the future, so I can always hold out hope. It does really make me interested in the effect of money on anxiety, because this is the first thing that came my mind here. I bet if I had significant amounts of money, and really no financial worries, my anxiety levels would be a lot lower than they currently are, but I also cannot say from experience because money issues have just always been a big part of my life. Very interesting to think about, though, and thanks for sharing.

 

[lexinonomous]

I do not think I will ever experience being anxiety-free. I have experience life without anxiety, but once it began to show up in my day to day life, I realized it was here to stay. There has been absolutely no escaping anxiety since it showed up on my doorstep. Part of me is saddened that I will never know what life is without it, but another part of me has dealt with it long enough to know it's manageable. If given the choice, I would definitely choose to experience absolutely no panic or anxiety.


I have hope for the future, hoping that there will be better medications available with lower risks. Currently, I refuse to medicate myself.

 

[SirJoe]

I don't think it will fully go away, because we need it. Everyone suffers from anxiety it's part of us. The problem is when it takes over us. I think that with time we will be able to deal with it if it seems to get out of hand.

 

[Gdevz]

I've suffered from anxiety for my entire life. It comes and goes, so no, I don't think I'll ever live without anxiety in my life.

 

[Panic57]

No, and I don't want it to completely go away. You're supposed to get anxious about not paying the bills otherwise they don't get paid. I just want to be at a reasonable level instead of all consuming and self destructive. I don't trust people who don't worry about anything, they either are scam artist or have to much money and time on their hands.

 

[Aree Wongwanlee]

No, I don't really want to live totally without anxiety. I believe that a bit of anxiety makes life more interesting. If life is totally without anxiety, we would not know what anxiety is. It's because of those times when we have anxiety that we can appreciate the other times when we don't have anxiety. Isn't that so?

 

[AndrewNguyen]

Me too, A life without anxiety suck a boring one. Sometimes I think with some of that, my life is more interesting. We must learn how to pass or accept it. Maybe it isn't easy but it will help ourselves more strong.!

 

[theduck7]

I think with time a lot of anxiety can be eventually be overcome. There will always be stresses in life but they don't always have to be huge. It's really hard to let go of some stresses but by working on it a little at a time I think the big issues can become little issues.

 

[MichaelJacob]

I don't think it's possible, i know it's possible to be anxiety free. It definitely will take time and effort, you have to see what helps calm you down like for me a hot shower or bath, or relaxing music or ASMR videos really help. Also little things that lots of people don't take in account like getting plenty of quality sleep, eating healthy, no smoking or drinking, and not being around negative people really help out trust me. I would know I've have had GAD for about 4 years along with 3 other disorders.

 

[rldonah]

No, because some degree of anxiety is normal. I would like to believe that I won't always be so prone to anxiety though. I'm working on improving, and I'm taking it one day at a time. That's all I can really do because if I start worrying about the future and whether or not this is something I'm going to have a problem with for the rest of my life, that's just going to be counter-productive. I try to stay in the present as much as possible because frequenting the past and trying to predict the future doesn't help. I am greater than my anxiety. I just need to figure out how to tame the beast.

 

[SirJoe]

I've kind of just figured that I will have anxiety for the rest of my life. I mean' date=' I'd prefer to not have anxiety obviously, but I've come to live with it. Sure my anxiety feels like it's taking over my life at times, but I think as I grow older it'll be easier to deal with. Also, you have to look at the fact that medication is becoming more advanced every day, and hopefully in the future there'll be something that helps with anxiety.[/quote']
I totally agree, it's not as if it's something that will just disappear we just have to find a way of dealing with it and not allow it to dominates our lives completely.

 

[KW2496]

I don't think it will ever just completely be gone. But I think it's important to get to a point where it happens less often. And then when it does, be able to get through it easier and faster. I would like for it to completely go away and that would be wonderful if it did.