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Does anyone else ever feel like this

Fen

Hi guys, I just wanted to see if anyone ever gets the gets periods where they get mentally so overwhelmed and if so, what helps you feel better? 

I don’t feel sad or low in my mood, I just am finding I can become quite overwhelmed and nervous by my own thoughts and over think easier than usual. I also have less capacity to mask and less desire to socialise.  

I don’t deal well with changes and uncertainties and I’m having quite a few  in my life atm, so that could be playing a role. 

I find I feel so overwhelmed by everything, and even though I don’t feel sad necessarily, if I allow myself to cry for 5 minutes it’s like realise of the anxiety and I feel slightly better. Maybe that also helps as the cry represents me activity accepting how I feel instead of trying to bury it inside and ignoring how I feel, which is a habit I always used to do. 

I hope I made sense and haven’t just rambled! Can anyone else relate to this ? 

Hope everyone is having a great day Blush

  • A cry definatly helps i think. I have been anxious over the past 3 days, ruminative over something. Today i had to do something about it. I spoke to someone about what was worrying me  and it helped, i had clarification on what i was worried about and cleared my head. I do have obsessive thoughts. Something will happen  that raises my anxiety, but it does pass. Mentally ovetwhelmed, yes. I have to rest x

  • in reply to Fen

    i think it helps because you are focused on that one thing. and it exhausts you so because it uses so much energy and gets you sweating and tired your full energy is focused on that one thing. so everything else is forgotten. 

  • I can relate to the effects of change or uncertainty affecting mood. It affects my ability to function. If I have a lot of them and one gets sorted I begin to feel less anxious. It can be something as simple as waiting for the day when our surgery opens appointments and ringing to book, especially if I get an early appointment as it's quieter.

    As I also overthink I try to limit myself to the immediately impending events and put those further ahead out of my mind.

  • in reply to Caelus

    Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m definitely guilty of rumination too! 

    Glad you find kickboxing helps you 

  • in reply to Erwin

    You’re right, maybe it’s a mindset. Thank you for sharing you’ve felt like this too, makes feel less alone and normal 

  • yeah thinking too much is what im guilty of. and thinking of the same thing over and over again worded in different words. which is why i can write essays and essays of a problem over again worded differently each time whenever im writing a complaint to my boss lol my brain doesnt shut up, so i can write none stop. i looked it up one time and its called rumination, where you over think and keep cycling and thinking of the same thing over and over and thinking negative stuff and too much.

    crying comes harder and isnt a common occurrence but i did get pushed so far as to be in a crying state for a week none stop one time. but generally i like to feel better by doing kickboxing and stuff like that.

  • Hey Fen, yes I can relate to this feeling or mindset. I don't know, I can be happy as can be and then suddenly I get this feeling where I am really overwhelmed and really anxious but then a few weeks later or even days later it just disappears.

    I have never understood it and why I get that feeling or mindset, the isn't a motive or anything. 

  • Also, I think I am realising I used to socialise more due to wanting to fit in and feeling the need to mask to prove i’m “normal” more than actually wanting to socialise. 

    Seeing how “most people” love socialising and realising I find it so exhausting compared to others around me, often makes me feel odd or strange. I know deep down that is not the case, but being late diagnosed, I am still learning who I am and that authentic me is fine, and there is no need to try be someone I am not. 

    Does this relate to anyone else?