Anxiety

[savorie]

I'm a worrier. I worry about one thing or another every single day.

Frankly I wish I could snap my fingers and just STOP. Worrying interferes with my quality of life. And I value a high quality of life, so why do I fret so much?

It makes me tired.

Oh, and I would like to stop being in pain every day. That would be outstanding.

Comments

[neoteny]

Someone recently posted in patrissimo's LJ the saying: "Worry is a waste of imagination." I can get behind that.

[anthologie]

I forget who said "worrying is praying for bad things to happen," but thinking of it that way helps.

That said, are you the one telling yourself you worry too much, or is someone else saying that?

I find that when I "worry," it's because I need to think through the bad stuff so it won't catch me by surprise when it happens. That said, it rarely ever happens, but I HAVE to do it because if I don't, I won't feel prepared. And for me, "feeling unprepared" is a much worse mental state than worrying is.

[savorie]

Other people have been telling me that for awhile, but I often defended it for similar "being prepared" reasons.

It's a lot more infrequent that I get actually fatigued from worry, and that's when I start to question the whole point of it.

[anthologie]

Eh, other people can stuff it. Just because I worry more than they would doesn't mean I "worry too much."

[zellandyne]

I am on Buspar to help me deal with my anxiety. It doesn't completely get rid of it, but it helps give me the bandwidth to actually evaluate which worries are useful (things I can prepare for), which I have no control over and might as well put aside, and which are totally unlikely and just a result of my habit of worrying.

*hugs*

[mary_wroth]

Yea - my roommate is on Buspar and as someone who has lived with her for a while - I can see the dramatic improvement it has made in her quality of life.

[elgecko]

That, exactly, is me. At one point it got bad enough for me to seek treatment for generalised anxiety disorder. It helped. There's a certain amount of this sort of thing that I've just declared to be the background noise of my mind.

[savorie]

:-)