Posted by djmmm on October 10, 2005, at 10:04:25
In reply to Re: What phobia is fearing going insane? » rjlockhart98, posted by Maxime on October 10, 2005, at 1:12:01
Matt
I couldn't agree more with Maxime's comments.
We are all taught by our psychologists and psychiatrists to become more introspective-- as a tool to really grasp/understand our feelings and emotions-- Sometimes through this we become our own worst ememy. We begin to overthink, overanalyze, we become emotional hypochondriacs, supersensitive to every emotion, every ache and pain.
It IS good to recognize your emotions appropriately, but ruminating thoughts lead to an "all or nothing" mentality ("don't make mountains out of mole hills"). Like Maxiene was saying, try to find an outlet for your anxiety, anything--gardening, running, writing, photography.
When I start feeeling my depression creap up on me, I clean. When my anxiety makes me want to craw out of my skin, I go for a jog, I do some yoga.
It may sound silly, and it may sound like I'm trivializing your problems, or that I believe that you can "will the pain away," I know you can't, I certainly can't. And I dont pretend to understand the complexities of what you deal with.
I do know that, at some point or another, we are all on the same boat, I KNOW the anxiety that keeps you inside for days, the "I'm having a heart attack, I must be dying, people are following me, anxiety"... and I KNOW the depression the infiltrates every aspect of your being...but I also know the unforgetable feeling of that day when I began to feel better. (through medication, yoga, meditation, writing, art)
Even in recovery I have the fear that I will end up losing myself again. As hokey as it sounds, I have a mantra: "You are not your illness." When you forget that you are so much more than the sum of your emotions, you lose track of everything that really makes up who you are.
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