weird stage

[pinkputter]

I have been aware of my anxiety for a while. And I know all about ANT (negative thoughts) and I have been pretty good at monitoring them. I have gotten rid of psycial symptoms which used to be a real problem for me. I was really good at hiding how I was feeling inside, but everyday I had horrible physical symptoms, as well as mental (couldnt concentrate etc).....now I am slowly getting better...but for those of you out there, that have been working at your anxiety for a while, do you ever feel like your in a rut???? I have felt like that lately...

I am so irritable and rude to people and I dont mean to be. Its like i can't even cover it up anymore. I feel like people see right through my anxiety problems. I also can never communicate what I really want to say, and people disagree with me really easily, which in turn causes more anxiety....

I feel really spacey and can never seem to find words to communicate....I feel like a vegetable almost......its the worst feeling

Is anyone at the same stage im at, or better yet over it and can give advice to those of us that dont know how to get over this??

I thought I knew ALLL the answers when i had my first break through. It just sucks now cause I realize how far away i am....every day dealing with this is so much effort.

Please some one let me know you can relate...any one share

 

[someoneelse]

Well, I am 31 now so I have dealt with social anxiety, and mild depression since I was I would say 15. The depression seems to have not flared its head for several years now. To compare how I felt in my early twenties to now is like night and day. The anxiety that was once continuous has lessened. Thinking of it in a simple way I would say it is just over time I must have grown. In reality conciling and other help has benifited me in so many ways that without them I would say that my improvement would not be like it is today. I am still not where I want to be but I am not the same person I was then and I would not have believed then that I could be where I am now. I still have breakthroughs and then set into a rut for awhile. Then overtime again I breakthrough and on I go again. Like I found this site which has helped and learned about ANTS for the first time and I believe I improved a little more. I would like to say that everyone as they grow older will overtime improve but I can only talk for myself. I deffinately am not the same guy who was afraid to go to a grocery store or bank when I was 20. I do that and so much more. My concentration has slowly improved and the zoned out feelings have slowly improved too. Does that help that someoneelse has found that things improve and they will continue to do so as they grow? I am very confident that they will for me and you too.

 

[Oli025]

yea i used to be like that and am not anymore
so yea things will improve for you.

hold on and keep going!