Anxiety
I am 32 years old and for 16 years now I have suffered from anxiety. I wanted to make a solidarity post for anyone and everyone who suffers or who has suffered from anxiety. What terrible feeling(s) we can go through on a weekly or even a daily basis. Anxiety seems to always linger in the back ground just waiting to come out to play whenever it feels it's time. It doesn't seem to matter if something actually went wrong or bad has happened. I would love to have a little bit of a discussion with anyone/everyone on this topic and perhaps we could all help each other feel a little better.
The reason I decided to write this post is because I am having one of the tough times dealing with anxiety right now where the symptoms are bad and frequent. It really makes trying to just live a normal life like everyone else around you a lot more difficult. I constantly am having heart issues, palpitations, cramps and weird symptoms that I imagine are heart attacks. It drives me nuts but I keep plugging away at my daily activities trying to get through the attacks.
Medication
There have been quite a few people that I know who suffer from anxiety who take anti-anxiety or antidepressant medication. I however have never taken any medication and plan on never taking any medication for this either. I do not and will not tell others they shouldn't take medication it's just not for me. I personally don't even like Tylenol or Aspirin.
I did try and purchase Kava Kava root from Hawaii once years ago and tried to drink it several times a day and unfortunately didn't stick with it long enough to see any results.
Fear
Anxiety is all about fear. Or at least that's what I've read and been told. You need to face your fears to rid your anxiety. This seems like it could work for some and it totally won't work for others. If you have a fear of driving lets say and then you get behind the wheel and start driving all around perhaps yes you could get rid of that anxiety. I feel that mine is a little bit more complicated so much so that I don't even fully understand where the issue starts. I have a severe fear of death. Dying is what scares me the most and drives me to think I am having heart attacks or brain aneurysms when in reality is usually just a muscle cramp, heart palpitation, head ache or just simply need a glass of water.
Triggers
I find that money triggers my anxiety. If I have financial issues my anxiety seems to flare up and symptoms become more severe and more frequent. I have to say since losing my business at the beginning of the year I'm starting to feel a lot better. Financially things got bad then worse, then worse again then slowly started to get better. As each day goes on I seem to feel less stress and find more time to relax. I think that this in the long run will be the best medicine I can take.
Steemit Anxiety Group
I would love to be a part of a Steemit anxiety group of some kind if anyone is interested. I do not know how to create a private channel in the Steemit chat. I would like to create a private channel for this anxiety group. If anybody knows how to create this can you please let me know.
I look forward to hearing from all of you and hoping when can all somehow cure ourselves. Perhaps we can at least make each other feel a lot better and that's something I'm more then interested in doing.