#Anti Anxiety

[thecupidwitch]

[music-moon]

A playlist for when you’re losing sight, losing touch and all the little things seem to matter so much.

[smileshighway]

Crystal Smiley Face Coins

[mamamoon92]

🖤✨

[avoidantrecovery]

what's currently helping me with catastrophizing/worrying/analysis paralysis

one of the number one things that i just can't stop doing is worrying and catastrophizing and it's been getting in my way for eons now. it's extremely hard to push through, i end up procrastinating, doing things last minute (which means i can't do them as well as i otherwise would), and of course self-sabotaging.

i used to think that i only catastrophize with "big" decisions, but i noticed that it had crept into small day-to-day decisions as well. just coming up with my daily to-do-list was littered with extremely negative "what ifs" and it was agonizing.

so i tried to force myself to not think negatively, to be mindful and say "c'mon that won't happen..." etc... but it didn't help. my "brain" (or part) would just reject that and do it even worse. i also did the thing i read about where you're supposed to think the negative thought to it's conclusion, which should then help you snap out of it. it did not, in fact my brain is capable of coming up with some pretty gruesome stuff, so that just ended up being an exercise in just how bad things can get.

so then i had this idea: how about adding more options to the outcomes? so now i have a new rule, each time my brain chimes in with a catastrophizing thought, it has to add at least 2 or 3 (or more) good outcomes for the same situation. therefore i'm not left with just one horrible scenario, but two others where everything goes fine or even really good. this has helped me get out of analysis paralysis and tackle the things i need to get done, big and small, while still allowing my brain to "contribute" with warnings. it doesn't get to be the only and the loudest voice anymore, it is obliged to hand out the good scenarios it's been keeping from me as well, to balance things out a little. that way the negative outcome suddenly shrinks to it's appropriate size and it just one among many outcomes.

sure, that doesn't mean negative things won't ever happen, it just means that the idea of them having a chance of happening won't keep me from what i want/have to do. this method has really helped me in the last couple of days, i hope it can help others too.

[saranilssonbooks]

[honeycombhank]

4/16/24

I started switching over to a new antidepressant today and I’m a bit nervous, It’s been years since anyone would even dare touch my medications.

Wish me luck my tumblr friends because I really need it!

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

[uwkhj]

took some triazolam and was actually able to focus and write for like two hours. oh how i love a quiet brain, even if it’s very much a temporary thing.

only reason i stopped was because i got too tired to be able to think properly :(

it’s always nice to actually be able to write and not just have the desire to do it

[cruelestpoetryever]

Has anyone ever had luck getting a prescription for Xanax or Adderall after getting out of inpatient rehab? If you don't tell a doctor or psychiatrist about it can they still check and find out and not write you a prescription? And plus if I'm on my parents insurance would they be able to see I'm getting that stuff???

And don't tell me opinions on if I should I just want to know if it's even possible to get in the first place.

[bl00dg0ddess]

sometimes i wonder what it would be like to live without meds 🤡🤙🏻

[pink-esc]

Raging against the machine except it’s me trying to convince my nervous system/amygdala that feeling funny and being on the verge of death are not the same thing

[music-moon]

When everything is just too much, here’s a playlist to remind you of flexibility, love and trust.

[beatsforbrothels]

SWARVY - Anti-Anxiety (ft. Vida Jafari)

[avoidantrecovery]

"soup soup magazine" hidden picture app by dong il kang | ios download • android download

this app is great, has been helping me relax and keeping me from doom scrolling. it’s an interactive where is waldo style game, has no ads and many free levels. unlocking paid issues cost 0,99$ only, even though you won’t have to for a long time. the illustrations are cute, you can zoom in and each level has engaging non-annoying music as well.

i’m especially recommending this for anyone struggling with putting their phone down because they are looking for a distraction, but don’t want to ingest hours of garbage on social media. not an ad, i’m not getting paid for this lol, just sharing something currently helping me. 😔 hopefully it can help others in some way.

[a-shooting-jade]

duloxetine is such an inappropriate medication.

if it works for you, I'm so happy for you and I hope it continues to work for you, but for the rest of us... GUYS WTF SEND HELP THIS IS GOING SOOOO BAD💀

[pascalishere]

oh motherfucker the feather trick from Celeste actually kinda works.