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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 585649" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>As Dash mentioned, most of us have felt that kind of anxiety, it's so difficult to keep fear at bay when it comes to our difficult child's. We get used to waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, your fears certainly may come to fruition, but they also <strong>may not</strong>. I know it's really hard, but try to stay right here in this present moment where it's really all okay, he is still at the shelter. As you have done many times in the past, if things go awry, you can handle it, but at this moment, they haven't, so your worry is premature. As I've gotten older I realize how many moments of my life were lost to worrying about things that never actually happened. Sigh. So, listen to this voice of experience and take a deep breath, look around, recognize that right now, it's all okay. If that changes at some point, you will leap into action and deal with it, but you don't have to panic right now. </p><p></p><p>Try to breathe into the area of your stomach which is hurting, we tend to shallow breathe when we are afraid, so if you do deep breathing with the intent to bring the breath into the stomach area, you can release some of that anxiety from your body.</p><p></p><p>The things that helped me the most to combat anxiety are acupuncture which is a terrific stress reducer, yoga, meditation, exercise, talking about my fears with someone who really listened (usually a therapist) and as you've just done, writing them down. An exercise which may help is to write down every single fear you have about this situation, look at it, decide to let them go and then burn the piece of paper. If you can get outside today and walk, that would be helpful too. Try to trick your mind into getting off the fear track which is where it's presently stuck....... and do the deep breathing, that will help with your anxiety as well as the stomach ache, fear hides in the belly. Sending you peaceful vibes and big hugs...........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 585649, member: 13542"] As Dash mentioned, most of us have felt that kind of anxiety, it's so difficult to keep fear at bay when it comes to our difficult child's. We get used to waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, your fears certainly may come to fruition, but they also [B]may not[/B]. I know it's really hard, but try to stay right here in this present moment where it's really all okay, he is still at the shelter. As you have done many times in the past, if things go awry, you can handle it, but at this moment, they haven't, so your worry is premature. As I've gotten older I realize how many moments of my life were lost to worrying about things that never actually happened. Sigh. So, listen to this voice of experience and take a deep breath, look around, recognize that right now, it's all okay. If that changes at some point, you will leap into action and deal with it, but you don't have to panic right now. Try to breathe into the area of your stomach which is hurting, we tend to shallow breathe when we are afraid, so if you do deep breathing with the intent to bring the breath into the stomach area, you can release some of that anxiety from your body. The things that helped me the most to combat anxiety are acupuncture which is a terrific stress reducer, yoga, meditation, exercise, talking about my fears with someone who really listened (usually a therapist) and as you've just done, writing them down. An exercise which may help is to write down every single fear you have about this situation, look at it, decide to let them go and then burn the piece of paper. If you can get outside today and walk, that would be helpful too. Try to trick your mind into getting off the fear track which is where it's presently stuck....... and do the deep breathing, that will help with your anxiety as well as the stomach ache, fear hides in the belly. Sending you peaceful vibes and big hugs........... [/QUOTE]
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