#anxious brain

[bakerstreethound]

I can feel my heart racing. But, oh how it could be to have it stop but for a moment. So I might catch up and breathe. Untangle myself from the knots and the racing mind. Just let me know it's fine, it's just the mind racing. Thinking to much of the future and the work you have yet to put forth. Why it still persists incsnnot know, but it causes my stomach to flip in knots, the mind turning on the fear. Oh make it stop make it stop, it's not even the end of the year the body is already begging. Just one more step, one more day, breathe in and focus on the present not the impeding doom of the future. Relinquishing control is hard but necessary breathe in and out, for words to write will come in time, filling your soul filling you with strength and unyielding courage. Hold on hold on, dream sweet for the morrow will come, rest racing thoughts become peaceful make anew for a new dawn yet breaking.

[peyton-warren]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who when dealing with anxiety turns on movies like The Grey Man or The Losers for the comfort those CE characters bring to my brain. Am I the weird one?

[mrsbeef]

Is it intuition or anxiety?

A novel by me

[daintymouseblogs]

I'm not exactly new to this hell site. I had(still have, really) a blog that I posted on somewhat regularly.

The only difference is that now I'm anxious and can't fall back on the specific thing I made my blog for to post about, and now I have no idea how tumblr etiquette works.

What am I doing with my life?

Why does my brain choose this hill to die on?

Excuse me while I start posting whatever bullshit comes to mind, in order to stop worrying about it.

[intense-emphasis]

How my anxious brain has me feeling:

"Is it illegal to take a walk?"

Like obviously I know this is not true, there are people out walking and living life all the time, but yet here is my anxious brain:

"Is it illegal for me specifically to take a walk???"

Someone could affirm to me externally that no, my brain is simply being mean, live and be as you please! Ope but there's that anxious brain again:

"They have lied to you and now are mocking how you exist and do things"

And I am simply tired of these cycles!

[snailsandpuppy-dogtails]

Getting used to this site's so weird because i'll just get notifs that mutuals are following me and then anxious me sits here like "Oh, you didn't like something I did/posted/said so much that you unfollowed me at one point? Why? What did I do? I'm so sorry. Maybe it was a mistake. No, they definitely hate you."

[sunktaki]

it’s Friday night and I’m just anxious as hell about work and whyyy can I not shut the brain up

[bhaskarlive]

Deep sleep can calm, reset the anxious brain

Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural oscillations become highly synchronised, and heart rates and blood pressure drops.

A sleepless night can trigger up to a 30 percent rise in anxiety levels, researchers from the University of California said.