'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm fine this morning. No fever or body aches. So that's good, although I'm kind of confused.
Woo! Buffista~ma FTW.
My family has moved on to the Vermont portion of their vacation so quiet has returned to the household. I enjoy the house full of people and activity, and I enjoy the peace and quiet. It's all good.
Woo for no fever!
They are coming to help you not to judge you, Sophia. I hope it's not too expensive.
Oh my gosh, WHY would someone mask a British accent when working abroad?
She said she started it when she was working as a waitress and was too busy to stop and chat about it!
billytea, those links were helpful, and Jesse, your input is also helpful. Thanks for the encouragement, all.
Am I writing that cover letter? No I am not. I am eating a muffin and trying to calm tf down.
I hate my anxiety even more than I hate my depression. Depression, I have effective coping mechanisms, I know how to deal with it. Anxiety, I got nothing. Yelling CALM DOWN into the mirror is strangely ineffective.
Anxiety, I got nothing. Yelling CALM DOWN into the mirror is strangely ineffective.
So, honestly, you're not far off here. What works for me sometimes is not yelling CALM DOWN, but giving my anxiety a name and then telling it that it doesn't know shit about what's going on and that it needs to shut the fuck up so I can get things done. I named it Reginald, because that sounded like the perfect name for an entity that just uselessly fusses and freaks out at the drop of a hat despite no evidence existing that freaking out is called for.
I do actually feel slightly insane addressing my anxiety by name (or talking back to it at all), but it does also work to make it shut the fuck up sometimes, and that's the outcome I want, so hey. At least the insanity is working for me.
My analyst is out sick for two+ weeks. I need to try that.
My analyst is out sick for two+ weeks. I need to try that.
You may feel insane doing it, but I'm surprised by how well it works, when it works. (Other times, my anxiety is all "Bitch, I'm driving, so do what you gotta do, but I guarantee your heart rate is going to spike and you won't be able to get any work done.")
That's a really good idea. I have a surprisingly hard time even recognizing that my anxiety is anxiety and not, I don't know, something I ate - giving it a name seems like it might help with that.
I have a surprisingly hard time even recognizing that my anxiety is anxiety
Yeah, "Why am I lying awake at 3am again? Oh, right."
I talk back to my inner voices sometimes. The best time was that my Inner Critic was bitching, complaining and repeating itself and suddenly I snapped at it that if that was all it had to offer, I wasn't going to listen to it until it actually had a point. It was surprised and shut up... for awhile. Now I am rude to it whenever I notice it is bothering me, AIFG.