Im sure those of you who suffer from
anxiety can relate to this particular part
of it, I am curious - how do you deal with
paranoia/panic when it occurs?
I get this all of the time, and the worst
part is that I never talk about my
paranoid fears. It all gets repressed and
then I get stomach aches from it.
For example: if I am at work and I hear
that we have an office meeting, I
immediately think that my boss is secretly
planning on publicly firing me.
Or for no reason at all I will think that
my boyfriend wants to break up with me. I
used to constantly think my friends hated
me and talked bad about me, though now I
dont really care what they think of me so
whether or not they are means nothing to
me anymore.
But, like I said, I never voice these
thoughts to anyone. I feel embarrassed by
my paranoid fears, part of me knows im
ridiculous, the other part of me cant stop
thinking about these things.. My sister
had some anxiety issues- all she ever does
is talk about how she feels and what she
is worried about and it gets very
annoying. Its like the 'boy who cried
wolf' she's got a problem so often that no
one would take her seriously if there
really was something wrong, and I dont
want to be like that.
Anyways if you guys have any ideas as to
how to deal with this aspect of anxiety I
would like to know, because how I am
handling it now doesnt work all that well,
it just makes me feel sick and repressing
everything is just going to make things
worse in the future, im sure.
