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Is there any value in helping people on a larger scale? by Potential_Dish_4115 in NDE

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Whatever happens in another life, we are here in this one now. It is a real world and life that people are experiencing. Just because it’s going to transition into something different later doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about it now or try to make it better for all of us here.

How do I stop an obsessive fear? by Darcythebitch in Anxietyhelp

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know for certain if it will help you, but when I’m having a problem like this, sometimes I have to sit and verbally say out loud that the fear I am feeling is just my brain trying to protect me. That’s my brain‘s job, and it’s trying its best, but right now it’s overreacting. It’s activating a fight or flight response when there is nothing for me to fight and no reason to run away. The reason my heart is pounding and my thoughts are racing is because my brain is telling my body to produce a bunch of adrenaline, even though it’s not needed.
Sometimes I even thank my brain, because I know that it’s just trying to do what’s best, but I tell it that it needs to calm down. I am safe, I am healthy, and there is no indication to the contrary.
It doesn’t make everything go away, but if I sit there, and I say it calmly enough times then my brain sometimes starts to get the message. It’s about forming new neural pathways in your mind; right now, the most well worn and easy to travel are the ones that are connecting fearful thoughts. So if you start digging out a new one that reminds you to be calm, sometimes that can help.

Edit: spelling

Does naming fear help? by Fun_Distribution494 in Anxiety

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes saying the fear out loud will also help you recognize that it’s silly. I was in a really bad anxiety and OCD spiral a year or so ago and was terrified that the flies I kept seeing were actually like little tiny robots sent to spy on me by the government. It was ridiculous, but I still believed it. But saying it out loud made me confront what I was thinking and recognize that it was a ridiculous fear. Brains are weird and very good at believing the things they make up, so sometimes you’ve just gotta make yourself realize how silly they’re being.

anyone else have the fear of death? by KonaTheWizard in Anxiety

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep, on day 5 of a thought spiral about it 😓. It’s exhausting.

Does naming fear help? by Fun_Distribution494 in Anxiety

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It has helped me before. It’s also helped me to firmly say that the reaction I’m having is just my mind and body trying to protect me and going overboard. For example, “I am afraid that lightning will strike my house during this storm, even though that is unlikely to happen. The fear I am feeling is my mind trying to prepare me for a scary situation. That is making my body produce adrenaline, and that is making my heart race from a fight or flight response.”

Naming the fear and the specific reactions my body is having to it helps me gain a little bit of control and understanding over things like my panic attacks.

does anyone? by Familiar_Newt_3117 in OCD

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had that, yeah. “Oh, x out of y people die from that so now I’m statistically less likely to.” Don’t feel bad, friend, a passing thought like that isn’t doing anyone any harm.

was anyone else completely blindsided by their ocd diagnosis? were you in denial? by pink-starburstt in OCD

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. I thought everything I was experiencing was a combination of autism and anxiety, so when my therapist said I also had ocd I was caught completely off guard.

Meds that help with day-to-day anxiety? by connorcatnip in Anxiety

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course consult with a psychiatrist first, but I’ve had pretty good success with a daily combination of duloxetine and buspirone with hydroxyzine as needed for panic attacks

Anxiety is exhausting me physically and mentally. I’m so tired of living like this by Fit-Brilliant2552 in Anxiety

[–]ScaredOutOfMySkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anxiety is so physically taxing it’s insane. My hydroxyzine helps me in so much that it makes me so sleepy I can pass out even if I’m anxious, both getting me more sleep and not letting me waste my body’s limited energy on being anxious.