MY ANXIETY A DAILY BLOG: PUTTING IT DOWN ON PAPER

Today was a good day despite the fact that it almost was a bad day. 

As I've stated before no matter what my anxiety is there just under the surface waiting to come to the forefront. At this point anything can trigger high general anxiety or a panic attack. Anything. 

I've been doing my best to follow a routine and keep myself in a positive mood and control the ideas and notions in my head as best as I can. Today was day 2 or 3 and it was fine but anxiety is most definitly there and as strong as it's been. 

Today I met with my psychologist and discussed everything from the last 2 weeks. My higher level of general anxiety, my doctors visits, etc. Everything that is causing the neurotic thoughts to bombard my brain all moments of the day, even now. 

Basically we talked about the things I am already aware of just not doing. DO THE WORK! I must and so should you. And I need to combine different methods in-order to be more sufficient. So, we discussed me writing things down on paper. As I've stated things sound "easy on paper" but are more difficult to perform. Turns out there EVEN MORE difficult to perform when you don't write them down on paper at all. So, starting tomorrow I will write down a list of things that I could do and need to do throughout the day to have a good day. This list may vary, but for the most part will probably stay the same. 

THE LIST:

1. GET SLEEP!

2. MEDITATE 20 MINUTES A DAY

3. BREATH DEEP AND OFTEN

4. PRACTICE GROUNDING*

5. CONTINUE MAKING MY DAILY VLOG AND BLOG

This list can and probably will change but not too much, I don't know, maybe. It's all a work in progress. *GROUNDING is when you ground yourself by going through the 5 senses in-order to come yourself down. For example. YOu can say to yourself: I see and name 5 different things you see, I hear and name 4 different things you hear, I feel and name 3 different things you feel, I smell and name 2 different things you smell and I taste and name something you taste. It's basically going through all 5 senses one by one to focus your mind and calm yourself down and ground you back into reality. It really helps during a panic attack, but she recommended that I do it for my general anxiety as well and I will. 

That is all for now! Have a good night and Tomorrow will be better! 

Lou