Anxiety with what
It's a scary time we are living in. And this is bringing a lot of anxiety and fear of the unknown. What will happen in 6months? Will we go back to normal? Okay nothing will ever be normal again. Or will we be in a whole another mental state of being and how we will live
For the past few weeks i've been scared for my family and mainly my health because i have this weird feeling that something bad is going to happen to me. I don't know how to stop this feeling as it takes over my whole body.
@j0yl0
That's exactly what I felt 2 weeks ago, and because of that I wasn't able to have a decent sleep and I also lost my appetite. I specially hate it during bedtime, because that's when all my negative thoughts come out. Everything that I thought I felt in my body, therefore making me more anxious. But I have decided to do something, eventhough I'm not sure if its going to work, I started watching videos on anxiety self help and listened to different podcast channels that deals with managing anxiety. In a way, it helped me to understand what's happening inside my head. Now I'm doing exercise in the morning and even tried yoga and meditation. I know it's difficult to quite an anxious mind, but hey, there's no harm in trying. I hope that I have given you something to try, its hard but I believed that this too shall pass. Take care.
@colourfulMango1050 One positive I've taken from this is that the team I work with have all felt quite anxious (when they usually aren't anxious people generally) and there has been this greater sense of understanding from them about how it feels to have to work while feeling this way. Before this all happened I always felt that my team didn't really get the side effects of being anxious and how it can disrupt your work or daily life in general. So hopefully once this is over, people might have more of an awareness perhaps? That's just something I've felt anyway!
@helloBeechwood1519
I was a surgical tech ICU and EMT in combat guys. Believe me, long term anxiety and stress is worse than the temporary stress of combat and high high stress. We did not have time to look for each other as we do here for support. Check each other. Give encouragement. There was dying and pain everywhere. If you took the time to think about it, you would break and not be able to help anyone. That's what our front line care workers are doing now. I know it. And I suffer for it now.
So to avoid the long term effects, learn to breath properly, to take the time to go outside and walk (social distance) and go talk with support in the neighborhood or your family. And try not to use your anger, fear and anxiety on them. They are your best support.
We were given our brains to be careful. So use your brain. Be careful. That is all you can do. If you have to see a doc about settling you down and sleeping, then do it. Talk. Telehealth. Stay open about healing. I made the mistake of holding eveything in, and it took me years to learn how to learn.
We used to look for a patient who had been through a firefight and had his/her life flash before their eyes (Mine did.) If they were crying, if there were tears, we had hope for them. The saddest part of this crisis is that we cannot hug one another. But we will someday. Look for heroes. They are there, even where you live. Gather strength from them. Don't watch too much TV. It is your life. Not theirs.
