Its all back!!!!

[Danny1001]

How are you today gale .... I had a horrible day yesterday had a impending doom feeling hot very detached


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[Gale]

How are you today gale .... I had a horrible day yesterday had a impending doom feeling hot very detached


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It's just not going away!!! I felt detached yesterday too. Had to do a few errands and stranding in line I just felt awful. Today still feeling the same. Can't stand it anymore.

 

[Gale]

Gale, it’s possible that things went like this...you were able to get out of your head for a while, which is great of course. Then you felt “something” that was similar to the old feelings. This began your neural pathways doing their thing, which is bringing you back, flooding your brain with all these old emotions. So then here comes another “symptom”, and another, leading to a cascade of old emotions.

Perhaps if you accept what has caused this, you can calm yourself. Certainly not easy, God knows.

Bob

Bob can you help me out here!!! I need someone to explain what anxiety can do. Big denial here. Still thinking I have a terrible disease.

 

[Bobnnat]

I read up about it in the past, and have spoken with psychologists. Think of a dirt road. Now imagine you walk that dirt road every day, many times. Over time, all that pressure on the ground causes a burrow, if that’s the word, to form. Now the path had depth and maybe indentations.

our brain creates what are called neural pathways similar to that. It becomes the unconscious path the brain takes when those same thoughts pop up. It’s where the brain stores them. Same old, same old thinks the brain.

so when you feel a symptom, your brain becomes lazy and just dumps the emotions you feel, those same old, all the time emotions into that pathway. Of course, nothing good happens. You think and feel the same negative thoughts, and the symptoms get a free pass to run wild.

Anxiety is like a disobedient child. Give up and let him do his annoying behavior, and he will do that and then some. Cry louder. Throw more tantrums. And why not, the caregiver has given up.

so, where does this lead us? We need to create brand new neural pathways. That’s hard to do and takes a ton of patience and willingness to fail..many times. So when you get a symptom, don’t react the same way with fear, anger or whatever negative way you do. If you allow those regular emotions to grab you, the brain, the lazy brain will simply do what it does all the time when this happens..toss it down the old pathway.

but what if, instead you react differently? Perhaps with the thought, oh well,here we go again. Yawn. Go ahead, do your thing symptom, see if I care. That will be hard of course and you will likely fail repeatedly, but each time you are starting to build that new pathway. New construction, a shovel at a time. One day, you’ll start to have periods where you really don’t care as much, and that will slowly happen for longer timeframes. By then, you have trained your brain to not just throw those emotions down the well worn path it’s been doing for decades. Now, the brain will be directing those emotions to the symptoms down the new path, which will grow deep and well travelled.

Allow failure. Expect it. Don’t beat yourself up when it happens. Each time you believe you’ve failed, even if you feel the new way to react for say 5 seconds, you’ve dug a bit of that new roadway. It has to get deep and long enough before it can be used.

 

[Gale]

I read up about it in the past, and have spoken with psychologists. Think of a dirt road. Now imagine you walk that dirt road every day, many times. Over time, all that pressure on the ground causes a burrow, if that’s the word, to form. Now the path had depth and maybe indentations.

our brain creates what are called neural pathways similar to that. It becomes the unconscious path the brain takes when those same thoughts pop up. It’s where the brain stores them. Same old, same old thinks the brain.

so when you feel a symptom, your brain becomes lazy and just dumps the emotions you feel, those same old, all the time emotions into that pathway. Of course, nothing good happens. You think and feel the same negative thoughts, and the symptoms get a free pass to run wild.

Anxiety is like a disobedient child. Give up and let him do his annoying behavior, and he will do that and then some. Cry louder. Throw more tantrums. And why not, the caregiver has given up.

so, where does this lead us? We need to create brand new neural pathways. That’s hard to do and takes a ton of patience and willingness to fail..many times. So when you get a symptom, don’t react the same way with fear, anger or whatever negative way you do. If you allow those regular emotions to grab you, the brain, the lazy brain will simply do what it does all the time when this happens..toss it down the old pathway.

but what if, instead you react differently? Perhaps with the thought, oh well,here we go again. Yawn. Go ahead, do your thing symptom, see if I care. That will be hard of course and you will likely fail repeatedly, but each time you are starting to build that new pathway. New construction, a shovel at a time. One day, you’ll start to have periods where you really don’t care as much, and that will slowly happen for longer timeframes. By then, you have trained your brain to not just throw those emotions down the well worn path it’s been doing for decades. Now, the brain will be directing those emotions to the symptoms down the new path, which will grow deep and well travelled.

Allow failure. Expect it. Don’t beat yourself up when it happens. Each time you believe you’ve failed, even if you feel the new way to react for say 5 seconds, you’ve dug a bit of that new roadway. It has to get deep and long enough before it can be used.

Oh Bob if it was that easy that would be great. I don't know what triggers my symptoms but when it happens they all come at once. So it's like here we go again. And it's always 24/7. I just can't function. I try to force myself to do things but the body won't let me. When bedtime comes I look forward to it because that's when I get some relief. Then morning comes and it starts all over. I so appreciate you sending me this information and taking the time. Hope you don't mind if I ask you things here and there. My best to you!

 

[Danny1001]

Bob that was a very amazing explanation and makes sense. Like had said when it hits , it’s so real it’s hard to ignore but I get what your saying you have to push through and not fall into the trap


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[iwakami]

I always fall into the trap. Lately, i force so much to ignore the symptoms that i am certain that my face is exactly like Hide The Pain Harold. Sucks... Well, another day alive!