Anxiety

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I also think Routies are cute.

I had a quite severe anxiety disorder in my early twenties. It was a result of an incident where I was attacked by a serial murder. I know all about anxiety. We are old friends. I discovered a strategy that I still use to this day to lessen my anxiety. I learned that when a person has anxiety attacks it is because the physical body is going into fight or flight mode. This worked well for people back in the day when we had to hunt our own food and so on. In today's world we often cannot actually fight or flee the source of our anxiety and so we often become alienated or distanced from our own biological reaction to stress. When we experience stress the heart pumps fast, the adrenal glands do their thing, and we breath very quickly. The modern mind experiences this fight or flight mode as a kind of anxiety that we often cannot pin point or attribute to any real phenomena in our environment. So we end up with free floating anxiety. That is, we have panick attacks that seem to rise out of nowhere, when in fact is because our modern minds have become alienated to our biological reaction to stress.

Also, in the case of post traumatic stress disorder, the brain processes the fear and trauma that occurred during the actual incident, but does so when it is safe to do this, perhaps up to a year after the trauma event actually occurs. People who experience traumatic events have to go through a 'debriefing" process that is a form of therapy, otherwise they are in danger of developing PTSD. That's what happened to me after I was attacked, I got PTSD a year after the traumatic event occurred and I didn't know what was happening until I was told that I was having anxiety attacks related to the traumatic event.

My writing might seem a bit odd in this post. We are having a bit of a heat wave where I live and it's so hot that it's a bit hard to think straight to write a post!

wow if anzity is caused by stress then i must be stressed out all the time, because mine is a constant thing and yet i don't feel stressed.

I've had a Mini-Attack just a half an hour ago, after my Mom kept on showing me her Bee Sting. I can imagine how her Foot feels, but she forgets that I have a weak Stomach. It wasn't anything like what happened to me, Last Week.

my anzity went up a little when i saw pink liquid drip out of my cat's neck. the first thing i said was "oh my god, my cat's leaking." that doesn't happen anymore thank god.

I have extremely high anxiety right now. On Friday night I went out on a work function, and the only way I can go out to anything is to have a couple of drinks to relax, and be able to talk to people. Well, I have never been to a work thing before but I couldn't get out of this one, 'cos I have made a friend at work and she wanted me to go with her. Anyway, the place had free drinks and I got really plastered and probably behaved badly - I can't remember. It wasn't anything drastic, but I think I was telling people what I really thought of them, that sort of thing. Anyway, they all think I am weird anyway, and now they will all hate me even more! The thing that I am anxious about is that I have been trying to phone my friend all weekend and she is not answering her phone, which must mean she is not speaking to me because she is embarrassed about my behaviour. I have probably lost yet another friend, and I don't have them spare to lose. Also, I have to go to work tomorrow and face everyone!
I hate feeling anxious, my fingers and toes are cold and I feel sick to the stomach. I tried hugging my cat but he bit me cos I was clutching him I guess. I even scored a couple of things from ebay this morning to fed my obssession, but nothing helps. I could go for my walk, but it is 11.28 am here and the park will be full of people which will annoy me. I have to wait until after 4pm, when people are leaving the park. I can't take another route. I just want to go to sleep, to get away from this horrible feeling.

Reminds me of New Farm Park! That would be crowded even in the middle of winter.

Well, unfortunately, sometimes it is the only way Aspies can communicate with NT's, (using drugs or alcohol) to get on a similar social level, if you like. Try not to worry to much, they are all probably feeling very hungover and not remembering much. Did you get to go for your walk, in the end?? That's the problem with living in Australia, we all want to get out into the fresh air!

The two things that calm me down a bit are alcohol and late-night walks.

No wonder CockneyRebel is obsessed with Routemasters, those busses are cool. I wish we had them in Australia.