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Our relationship with anxiety

Anxiety is uncomfortable. It’s an undercurrent that brings about intense feelings that for some may create panic. What matters is how we change our relationship with anxiety.

But it’s not realistic to think we can have a life without anxiety. It’s about being able to co-manage anxiety so we control it, it doesn’t control us. It’s about us creating a greater sense of space in the mind. Finding and working on a different perspective.

Anxiety attracts our attention to something and usually for good reason. It’s based on irrational fear. But we must pay attention to it. It’s not something we can just resist that if we ignore it, it will go away. If we ignore anxiety, it can become troublesome and destructive. It’s something we must acknowledge and deal with.

We must learn not to buy into it but must be okay with it. It’s not something we can push away either. Instead we must find ways to deal with it. We must learn to change our relationship with it, so that we’re more comfortable with it.

It is a gentle reminder of the life we’ve had, the battles we’ve fought, yet to work on. It comes and goes, because that’s what anxiety does.

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Co-existing with anxiety

My thoughts about anxiety are never far away. Being a parent myself, I find it hard to equate that my anxiety as a child was completely overlooked and could have been dealt with as I had reached out many times. Although I didn’t know the bad thoughts I had as a child were from anxiety, it is hard to imagine now years on that my life could have been made easier.

As the anxiety I deal with is down to my disability, I must continue to find ways to manage it. I still struggle with the concept of having had worked blindly, the deceit and other people’s judgments. Those bother me more than the anxiety itself. But it is not being equipped to help myself that reinforced my struggles that I find difficult to come to terms with.

The younger we are, with help the easier it is easier to adjust to our circumstances. As children we find ways through. But I know that without internalising everything, my emotions and anxiety would have been worse.

Even though my thoughts are more centered now, without my understanding, it would have taken me longer to come through the other end.

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Getting to grips with anxiety

My mind isn’t settled. It comes on the back of having to continually deal with anxiety through my brain impairment. There seems to be no reprise.

It is because my emotions are impaired that I have a permanent traffic jam in my head. And although I appreciate it’s the symptoms I must treat, that is difficult because I already have a predisposition to deal with before I start the process and that impairs my thinking further.

As a child I never equated my emotional struggles and what I was presenting was anxiety. I also didn’t understand or equate that I would never be free of anxiety because of my brain damage, that I would have to find a way of dealing with it because I don’t fit into other people’s normal.

Although I am okay with that and have come to accept that, those around me and close to me find it difficult to fit into my normal. I also feel aggrieved that things could have been made easier for me around bad thoughts and anxiety.

Knowing I will always be grappling with both makes it harder, because I’ve never been equipped and don’t have the tools now to move anxiety away. Through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy I am finding ways through that fit my particular impairments.

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