you are not alone.

Welcome to anxiety-disorderr! If you suffer from panic attacks, anxiety, phobia disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, or just need someone to talk to, you've come to the right blog. I hope you enjoy your stay. 

[starshein]

Listen up. There is literally an app that can help you avoid self harm and I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it.

Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.

It’s also totally FREE.

once again, it’s called CALM HARM

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Give yourself credit for the days you’ve made it when you thought you couldn’t.

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[justemotionalabusethings-deacti]

Week 2: Panic Disorder

calling all people with panic disorder! send me info about your personal experiences with panic disorder for the MIOTW PSA Project!

some things you might send (but you can talk about whatever panic disorder- related stuff you like!):

experiences

symptoms

struggles

little known facts

misconceptions and why they’re wrong

[thelatestkate]

my therapist taught me to start thinking of my anxiety as my panicky friend

it’s working???

[gobeautiful]

this is so cute omg

[usagimaree]

Woah this is super useful!!

[lupusdraconis]

For all my anxious friends out there.

[professorfangirl]

This totally works! Some of us get stuck in the sense that we *are* our emotions, so they overwhelm us and we can’t do anything about them. When you give your emotion an identity separate from you, it gives you the distance to make better judgments about it, and to comfort yourself better. 10/10 therapy veterans would recommend.

[thehobbitranger]

Good thing to remember right now

[onemerryjester]

Wow very important

[anxiety-disorderr]

Love this and it's so true. My therapist always says to think of it as an object or a thing that passes you. Like a storm. But a friend works too.

[anxiety-disorderr]

Chronically Ill.

i work in a university library. throughout most of my day i am, ironically, nowhere near a book. however, today i had to shelve a few when i found this one about psychology. it’s a psychotherapist guide and inside it reads (this is a medical textbook): 

“The most recent data on the course of GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) suggest that it is a highly chronic illness. Although GAD is marked by later onset than other anxiety disorders, it has a low probability of recovery and a high likelihood of recurrence in cases when recovery takes place.” 

I didn’t need a textbook to tell me that. I’ve relapsed pretty hard in my recovery these days. That’s why I’ve been so inactive, here. Anxiety has taken the wheel of my life car, and I’m just sort of... Letting it happen. 

My point is this: Here’s your confirmation that what’s going on in your head is suggested as a chronic illness. A mental chronic illness. The recurrences of our illness will be like dips and valleys of a mountain, similar to how addiction recovery is. Not linear, no light at the end of the tunnel, no way out. We’re in it with this shit. We’re stuck with it for life. And we either have to figure out ways to survive with it (aka self care, counseling, therapy, medication, meditation, you name it) or drown because of it. 

I’m trying to drown a lot less. 

[ashleymacleanblog]

Anxiety is something that constantly makes you feel anxious of the same things over and over again but you can’t talk about it over and over again because it will drive people away.

see the issue? (via ashleymacleanblog)

[aeseyastudies]

170619 // ‘Life is tough, you are tougher’

As always, I’m happy to make graphics if anyone has a quote they’d like me to use :)

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Express yourself however you feel comfortable.

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You are you and that’s enough :))

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hi :) check out my advice blog if ya want (here) 

[javjavi]

[bubblegum-flix-deactivated20181]

reminder: you can start over at anytime. your day is not ruined. your world is not over. take a deep breath. start over.

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There Is A Reason Why We Change

Article Artwork: @the-manila-institute

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please if anything, be yourself :)

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it’s okay to express yourself and your emotions

[anxiety-disorderr]

anxiety disorder is always glorified as some hopeful, beautiful thing with this positive ending. it isn’t always like that. sometimes it’s a bad day, a bad week. sometimes it’s just letting the disorder win. sometimes it’s just overwhelming fear you can’t let go of. sometimes it’s just fucking ugly. and there’s nothing you can do but let it win.

[progressiveresistance]