Having a very hard time coping with isolation.

[chickentender]

I do better when I just accept that life involves social isolation now since the pandemic began. But I feel like it's slowly draining me of hope. I can't even sleep tonight because I'm so stressed and wound up. I feel like a prisoner just watching my life tick away day after day after day.

 

[Zoe Jean]

Hi There,
I am so sorry to hear that. Where are you from?
Social isolation can contribute to stress and anxiety but there is always an underlying cause of the stress/ anxiety. Did you feel stressed before this? What exactly are you stressed about? Do you not like your own company?

 

[chickentender]

Hi There,
I am so sorry to hear that. Where are you from?
Social isolation can contribute to stress and anxiety but there is always an underlying cause of the stress/ anxiety. Did you feel stressed before this? What exactly are you stressed about? Do you not like your own company?

Thank you. I have PTSD so I always have some level of anxiety. I am dealing with loneliness from the isolation of the pandemic and some other life stuff that has happened- a few deaths in the family in a short amount of time. I'm in the US.

 

[Zoe Jean]

Is someone helping you with PTSD? Are you stuck at home? I'm sorry to hear about the loses in your family. Would you like to talk about everything? If so I'm here I haven't got PTSD but i did suffer with chronic stress and anxiety for 10 years.

 

[chickentender]

Is someone helping you with PTSD? Are you stuck at home? I'm sorry to hear about the loses in your family. Would you like to talk about everything? If so I'm here I haven't got PTSD but i did suffer with chronic stress and anxiety for 10 years.

Thank you so much. I had been going to therapy but my therapist wasn't helping me much anymore because we are too different so I can't actually speak to her about certain things and reach my goals because we're coming from 2 different places on a lot of topics. I am about to start the process of finding a therapist online. One of the things I need to go to therapy for is my extreme fear of medicine and medical environments. I need to complete my booster series still and I'm stuck home because I haven't done that yet unfortunately.

 

[Zoe Jean]

Im sorry to here that it hasn't worked out with your therapist. When I use to see therapist I didn't help me either as they sort of only focused on the problem and not helping you to overcome it long term only in the moment things.

I ended up healing my chronic stress and anxiety through seeing a life coach who used NLP techniques on me as it works on rewiring your beliefs and programs that cause that cause you to act and feel the way that you do.

I am here if you would like to talk about it.

 

[chickentender]

Im sorry to here that it hasn't worked out with your therapist. When I use to see therapist I didn't help me either as they sort of only focused on the problem and not helping you to overcome it long term only in the moment things.

I ended up healing my chronic stress and anxiety through seeing a life coach who used NLP techniques on me as it works on rewiring your beliefs and programs that cause that cause you to act and feel the way that you do.

I am here if you would like to talk about it.

Thanks so much. I have never heard of NLP techniques, I will look that up!

 

[Zoe Jean]

My pleasure I loved it so much I am now trained to as a NLP Practitioner.

 

[Jonathan123]

There is a big difference in being alone and being lonely. Some find being alone is all they want, and enjoy it. But being lonely is not the same. The majority of us humans are gregarious, we need others around us, and there is nothing wrong in that any more than there is to be alone and like it. It depends so much on our temperament. There is a lot to be said for being alone. It gives us time to begin to think more positive thoughts without the distractions others bring with them. Our fellow humans are not always as kind as they could be!
But being alone and sitting brooding and having 'poor me' thoughts is not good. Self pity is out in anxiety. On another thread there was talk of having a hobby or something to occupy the mind. Those of you who work may not need that as you are fully occupied anyway!
Getting stuck in the groove of negative thoughts and depressive thinking is so easy, as is self pity. Most would say 'how can I think positively when I feel so bad'? This is where occupying the mind with something other than negativity comes in. The anxious mind can form habits of negative thinking. Breaking those habits is not easy, and once again we come back to acceptance. Accepting it all without adding more fear is always possible. Throw a rock into a calm and tranquil lake. The ripples go right to the other shore. It's like that with anxiety. The rock is like a panic attack or an anxiety episode. The lake is calm until we throw in the rock. (Negative thoughts and the OMG's and 'what ifs'). A calm lake reflects the mountains in all their beauty, but a troubled lake distorts everything and all reflections are lost. Calming the mind requires complete acceptance of it all without adding fear to fear. Stop throwing rocks into the lake!