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Posted by mission7 on January 11, 2010, at 15:04:38
I have GAD and feel like something bad is going to happen, but the strange thing is that I don't worry about anything specific.
I don't worry about my health, an accident, germs, etc. I don't have any social phobias. I have lots of friends and few, if any, enemies. I don't understand it. When I think things through, I feel I'm in a good position in life. BUT, still. I have this nagging FEELING that something horrible is just about to happen.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?
Posted by Sigismund on January 11, 2010, at 15:23:30
In reply to Anyone to chat about anxiety?, posted by mission7 on January 11, 2010, at 15:04:38
I think I understand what you mean.
What is 'dread'?
Is that something stronger?
Naturally I feel like saying 'Maybe something bad *is* going to happen', which of course it will if you wait long enough.
We were meant to be hunter gatherers where your bad thing would be some wild animal to combat. Now all we have to worry about is each others minds (and that is something to worry about). I assume that the near future will bring something real to give you something to engage with (climate change and half the world will starve to death). Other than that, I'm keen on martial arts (not, I hasten to say that I've done anything like that....I once went to an Aikido course maybe 30 years ago and quickly fled) because you learn how to deal with tangible threats and get fit as well.
Then there are meds of course.
Posted by Dinah on January 11, 2010, at 16:28:49
In reply to Anyone to chat about anxiety?, posted by mission7 on January 11, 2010, at 15:04:38
I do have that experience, tho I think I'm more likely to grab hold of something to assign my worry to.
And it happens at the strangest times. When there's no real threat, and I'm not feeling really vigilant about anything. I have varying ideas of why that is, but maybe it has to do with being afraid that I'll lose all the good things in my life.
Or maybe, as I often suspect, it's just my brain. I'm wired that way.
Posted by Sigismund on January 11, 2010, at 17:19:12
In reply to Re: Anyone to chat about anxiety? » mission7, posted by Dinah on January 11, 2010, at 16:28:49
I was having a nice chat with my son late at night.
I can't remember how it came up but I said something along the lines of how I would be dying pretty soon.
He laughed and agreed.
Posted by Sigismund on January 11, 2010, at 17:21:23
In reply to Re: Anyone to chat about anxiety?, posted by Sigismund on January 11, 2010, at 17:19:12
How does the verb 'to die' work anyway?
I'm forgetting how to spell.
I die, you die, but I am dying or I am dieing, which looks quite wrong.
Posted by rnny on January 12, 2010, at 13:15:16
In reply to Anyone to chat about anxiety?, posted by mission7 on January 11, 2010, at 15:04:38
I know exactly what you mean.
Posted by mission7 on January 14, 2010, at 22:56:11
In reply to Re: Anyone to chat about anxiety?, posted by rnny on January 12, 2010, at 13:15:16
When Effexor first started to work for me I became slightly manic. During that time I felt like something exciting was just about to happen. Like any second I was going to meet an old friend or something like that.
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