SoScared
Well-known member
I’m working on some SA issues firstly via a CBT therapist and more recently via some threads on SPW. In many respects my progress has been nothing short of astounding…however.
I often still kind of lose it. A couple of personal examples are.
a) I can be in a shop and all is going well. I step back onto the street and I’ve lost all my coordination and my awareness is heightened totally unnecessarily.
b) I’m feeling fine, relaxed and discreet. I enter a building and all of a sudden my eyes are shooting all over the place and I’m signalling my arrival to everybody.
So I know both scenarios. I can keep it together and carry myself well or I can present almost as a victim of the environment. My question to you what sort of coping strategies do you have for your individual anxieties that will either negate your anxiety or allow you to override it and perform at your optimum i.e. normal? You are going somewhere, you know you may get anxious. How do you prepare? How do you cope?
I often still kind of lose it. A couple of personal examples are.
a) I can be in a shop and all is going well. I step back onto the street and I’ve lost all my coordination and my awareness is heightened totally unnecessarily.
b) I’m feeling fine, relaxed and discreet. I enter a building and all of a sudden my eyes are shooting all over the place and I’m signalling my arrival to everybody.
So I know both scenarios. I can keep it together and carry myself well or I can present almost as a victim of the environment. My question to you what sort of coping strategies do you have for your individual anxieties that will either negate your anxiety or allow you to override it and perform at your optimum i.e. normal? You are going somewhere, you know you may get anxious. How do you prepare? How do you cope?
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