Does anxiety make you more emotional/sensitive?
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Not sure you can stop being like that. Most people with anxiety disorders are more sensitive/emotional. I think it's a blessing and a curse. The trick, I think, is to learn to manage our emotions so we're not constantly going off the rails. I suggest listening to a few episodes of "Disordered Anxiety" podcast. They offer some good advice that really makes sense.
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No, No, No not by any means. Learning to control our emotions is not easy but can be done. Anxiety sufferers are usually sensitive people. That is to say they react to events in an exaggerated way. Anxiety is no more than 'normal' feelings greatly exaggerated. Everyone has emotions, it's the price we pay for being human. But emotions must not be allowed to control us. If we are of an emotional disposition then allow the emotions to come, no 'bottling up'. But see them for what they are, an abnormal reaction to an event that others would feel but not react to so intensively.
If you bottle up emotions and try to maintain a 'stiff upper lip' then the emotions will appear in a physical; form. The idea that men don't cry is a good example of 'bottling up'.
So many men are taught that that it's no wonder they suffer emotionally and why sites like this are composed mostly of women. Women open up so much more easily than men. Another thing to go is self pity. 'Ploms disease'! Poor Little Old Me.
Winston Chirchill used to put on his memos. 'action this day', and that is a good saying as it applies to anxiety. Begin acceptance, not tomorrow but now, today. Accept it all without adding more fear. It takes time but it works.
How are you a burden? Do your loved ones tell you that?
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yes ...im up and down, i have a physical reaction, i shake and blush and my face just drops, and look so fearful, im so embarrassed when this happens and just needs to run away, its this that makes me so angry with myself and very emotional
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We suffer becuse we are constantly trying to get rid of 'IT' a normal reaction to danger but the wrong one. The more we try and lose the pain the more we create the circumstances for it to flourish. By adding fear to fear we perpetuate the problem. Getting angry with yourself and getting emotional are all negative responses to fear greatly exaggerated.
So called 'normal' people have the same reactions but they don't hold on to them, as soon as the danger is past they get on with their lives. Anxiety suffers don't. They acquire the habit of seeing any small event as catastrophic. That is the nature of anxiety.
The secret lies in seeing emotions and feelings as part of the recovery process provided you accept them without negative comment. Face anything it can throw at you head on but don't REACT to the fear. Not easy, don't I know it, but acceptance does work given time. Negative reaction and all the 'what if's' add up to more suffering.
I have used the analogy of sheep being chased by the sheep dog. They panic and run in all directions, but as soon as the dog has gone they go back to munching grass as if nothing had happened. If those sheep were able to say 'Oh my god, what is happening to me', they would take a long time to recover. See it all for what it is, tired thoughts in a tired mind. In anxiety the mind loses it's flexibility and it is often difficult to take in new ideas.
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