Moa
Well-known member
Lately I just can't seem to cope with normal, everyday, mundane things when they don't go my way. I get incredibly frustrated and start to panic, and always end up crying. I have two main thoughts when these situations happen: "why doesn't anything go my way?" and "why can't I cope with these normal things?", and both thoughts make me incredibly depressed.
Some of the situations when this has happened:
- painting my bedroom and being unable to make perfectly straight edges at the floor and ceiling
- finding out my plans for tomorrow have to change, even though it's for something fun (going out to lunch)
- waking up in the morning to discover 3 ugly pimples on my forehead
- discovering someone scratched my car
I know these are just normal everyday things that happen to everyone, and I need to learn not to sweat the small stuff. But they don't seem like small stuff, they seem HUGE. And even though the logical part of my brain realizes that, the emotional part of my brain disagrees. This is happening more and more lately... I'm not sure why.
Does anyone else have that problem? What do you do to cope? Right now the only thing that works for me is taking a Xanax, which is obviously not the ideal solution.
Thanks everyone
Some of the situations when this has happened:
- painting my bedroom and being unable to make perfectly straight edges at the floor and ceiling
- finding out my plans for tomorrow have to change, even though it's for something fun (going out to lunch)
- waking up in the morning to discover 3 ugly pimples on my forehead
- discovering someone scratched my car
I know these are just normal everyday things that happen to everyone, and I need to learn not to sweat the small stuff. But they don't seem like small stuff, they seem HUGE. And even though the logical part of my brain realizes that, the emotional part of my brain disagrees. This is happening more and more lately... I'm not sure why.
Does anyone else have that problem? What do you do to cope? Right now the only thing that works for me is taking a Xanax, which is obviously not the ideal solution.
Thanks everyone