Faith,
Your thinkiong WAY TOO MUCH!
But that is OK!
It is normal for an anxious person to be extrememly analytical.
You re-thinking everything and that is what is causing you to feel even worse. I di it still sometimes but I am almost 100% better. ALmost NO anxiety whatsoever.
Everyone will have anxiety in their lives it's all in your reactions to them. THe people that have a problem with anxiety are NOT sick, crazy mentally ill or whatever. They just react negatively to the "normal" things that happen to EVERYBOSY! ANd yes that means wierd strange thoughts. Everyone has them Trust me.
Read this post I posted yesterday and be sure to check out the website. You can choose to be happy, calm and peaceful. No matter how hard it is, it is attainable.
Hi there,
I can totally relate with all of you. I suffered for about three years with OST's. (Obsessive Scary Thoughts).
I can now say that this symptoms( because it is a symptom of anxiety) has subsided 95%. I say 95% because, everybody has wierd, sometimes disturbing thoughts, every now and then. The difference between a "normal" person and someone who suffers with this symptom of anxiety, is in the reaction (aka the POWER for the thought to keep recurring) to them.
THEY can NOT hurt you, nor will they.
Please do not get discouraged and keep practicing underreacting to them. It can seem hard at first, Trust me I was there.
I used to say, "But what do you do when it pops up every three seconds! Keep underreacting? Yeah right?"
I felt like such a VICTIM all the time. I'm not and never was. I was just telling myself that I was.
There is nothing wrong with you except that you are probably distracting yourself from something that is truly bothering you. (SOmetimes you may not know what it is or it can take you a few years! like me)
But once you figure out what is bothering you, then you can deal wiht that issue and stop scaring y ourself with untru thoughts.
My issue was/is being my own safe independent person. Knowing that only I make myself feel better and knowing that it's in my control.
The following website helped me tremendously with OST's.
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Trust me. You'll be fine. Even if the thought pops up again, again, and again.. Keep UNDERREACTING. I cannot stress how important that is.
Eventually they stop coming and you hear from them less and less.
Also- You do not need to have OCD to have Obsessive Scary Thoughts. Lucinda taught me that and I learned that from many different sources. Some like to label it "Pure O" or "OCD" but sometimes its just plain old "ANXIETY!!"
Good luck!!!
YOu are all going to overcome this!!!!
Give me courage, Lord, to sail, my boat out from the shore. I'd rather feel the ocean's gale and hear the tempest roar, than to anchor safely in some bay, because fear conquered me. Let craft less daring, inland stay. Be mine the pathless sea.
