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how does one feel anxiety?

raspberrypie

i've always felt like i could 'feel' depression... down, low energy, irritable, in a coma... but anxiety - that's always been a mystery - except for when i just get a anxiety 'attack' or just fearful, etc... but i'm wondering about just constant anxiety. for example,  i feel i always am wary of danger, very careful about protection against theft, worry over activities and events so much that i just have written them out of my life. ...

i think 'hiding' in my house hides my anxiety from me. i think i use avoidance of things (no more air travel, no hotels, no movies, no crowds, all complicated by covid) a lot, and so also --- my anxiety might just be hidden from me. i have grown to 'accept' i will never do those things again. maybe that's the wrong long term approach.....

i prefer also not watching the news a lot ---- it's pretty disturbing, the world now.

anyone else experience anxiety this way?

i'm thinking of trying a medication for this ---  have been trying ritalin for about six months, trying to get the right dose. of course, ritalin is not for anxiety....  but now wondering about trying some mild anti-anxiety thing, to help me cope with life.

thank you!

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  • Anxiety is worsened by avoiding the things that make it worse. Desensitisation is the was to go… gradually exposing yourself to the object of fear such that it no longer makes you anxious. A specialist behavioural psychologist could help but Isometimes, you are completely right, something like Citralopram as a short term solution will help you get through whilst you are desensitising yourself but you risk psychological dependency.

    Anxiety comes from the mind, not from things outside the mind. So if you were scared of lifts, it’s not the lift causing the problem, it’s your relationship with it. If you hide from everything, soon enough even the place you are hiding in becomes a source of fear. If you were training a dog not to be frightened of other dogs, it wouldn’t work to pick it up every time it passed another dog. It needs to face the other dog, distracted by tasty food, gradually getting nearer each time so that it becomes calm when another dog is nearby. From a behavioural psychologists viewpoint, humans aren’t much difference.

    In other words:

    Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!

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    glad it (exposure) works for you --- but my understanding of autism spectrum, sentivities, etc --- no, many must learn their triggers, sensitivities, etc --- and learn how to mitigate them. that includes.... avoidance. i guess exposure to stimuli can be useful, though, once you find the stimuli that you want to be more comfortable with...  at this point - i'm using a lot of avoidance.. most psychologists know almost nothing about ASD...........

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  • in reply to NAS78124

    glad it (exposure) works for you --- but my understanding of autism spectrum, sentivities, etc --- no, many must learn their triggers, sensitivities, etc --- and learn how to mitigate them. that includes.... avoidance. i guess exposure to stimuli can be useful, though, once you find the stimuli that you want to be more comfortable with...  at this point - i'm using a lot of avoidance.. most psychologists know almost nothing about ASD...........

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