Coping with Anxiety
Wednesday May 6, 2009
People with PTSD often struggle with frequent and intense symptoms of anxiety. These strong symptoms of anxiety often lead people with PTSD to rely on unhealthy ways of coping, such as through drug or alcohol use. Fortunately, there are a number of healthy ways of coping with anxiety that may help your anxiety go down in intensity, become less frequent, and/or become more tolerable. Check them out here.
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I use all of these at one time or another. I’m a writer by nature and experience and use it to organize my thoughts.
I am very organized because i have to be to live without daily stress.I have a weekly planner which has room for notes. This really helps me. It also serves as a record of what i’ve done for the days when i’m feeling like i haven’t accomplished anything.
i play cribbage online almost daily. I play at gamecolony.com. You can chat with the person you’re playing with. It’s an easy game of counting that i can play even when i’m anxious or depressed. I welcome anyone who wants to learn to play to look me up.
I’ve been Diagnosed with PTSD ever since i was 19 yrs. old, i’m 40 yrs. old now married and with 3 kids, thank god all older. i’m sure it was hell for my kids growing up with me. it’s hard for my husbasnd and i but he’s a trooper because he knows that i’ve been thru alot of trauma and he still sticks by my side. i applied SSDI but gotten denied for it, then i called a disability lawyer and he didn’t want to take my case, because he says that i was too young. i am looking for somebody to chat with about everything or email me, also looking for a therapist that is cheap, because we are very poor. i haven’t been in a hospital and i’m scared to go. i don’t have suicidal thoughts, but i always just want to get away from my family, like go on a very long trip and cannot because i have my teenagers i’ll miss and they’ll miss me..
i need help, i know it, but i’m afraid of being locked up, and treated like a caged animal, or that i’m crazy, and i know i’m not, i just have alot of problems.