I just have to say, thank you for using the echo! It's good to have a laugh sometimes when being immersed in a serious subject! After a morning of extreme anxiety and a mini panic attack, I needed it. Oh, and the content was good, too! :) Rachel L.
The obsession to know "why-gawd-dammit-why this is happening to me" has at its root a desire to control, but control won't fix it. You never did have control and you're not gonna get it.
Each dysfunctional coping pattern has a higher octave, functional expression of the same core need. Control is the dysfunctional version of mastery. Control is the counterfeit, imitation Doritos junk food version of mastery.
We are fooled into thinking we need to control our environment by the stories in our heads. We create the very thing we are trying to save ourselves from when we spin down an internet rabbit hole trying to "understand." Well, usually we just emerge after all that screen time having forgotten to pee, eat, or cook a healthy meal feeling pretty horrible.
Did we actually understand, or did we load our guns with ammunition to argue the point with someone? Did we actually sense into ourselves the eternal truth? Do we have faith that ever next step is illuminated and that all of our true needs are always, always – even already met? There is NO mastery without this faith.
This is where the wholeness is, and there's no healing without this wholeness.
Love this. Certainty drives it all.....and wanting certainty just drives us further into the disorder.....Letting go of the reigns of needing all the answers and control is one of the main keys to success....Will I have an anxiety or panic attack? Maybe I will, maybe I'll have both, maybe I'll have none, oh well.....♥️♥️♥️
No truer words have been spoken Drew. What is important, is how we allow ourselves to accept whatever we are feeling without poking at it or dwelling on it. Labels don’t matter it’s how we process it. I am getting better everyday at practicing this and it’s not just geared toward anxiety but anything I may be feeling. Sadness, down in the dumps, hormones, life events etc. I try not to question or search for answers but just let it be. Currently I am on round two of covid 🤧. Last year having it I was an anxious mess. This time I’m like okay it’s covid my symptoms are from that. My body knows how to fight it I’ll just rest and allow time to heal. I’m learning to be content in all things. Still a work in progress but life will always be a work in progress 😉. Love you Big Guy
Yessss. Also, if you wade in to any anxiety-related content online, people will weaponize whatever they think the difference is. So if you say “I’ve learned to sit with panic attacks and not let them make decisions for me,” a flock will come out of the forest to say “Oh that might work for an ANXIETY attack. But a PANIC attack is different. You’ve clearly never experienced a panic attack because it’s completely different and that would never work.”
I don't think you can get all that on a T shirt that's readable, maybe just !!!! Will do. I never really thought there was much difference only the intensity. Get the other T shirt put with!!!!!! On it in bigger letters. The reactions are the same.
Actually I don't agree and this is something that I don't clearly understand. For me there is a difference for what I personally call panic attack and anxiety attack. Anxiety attacks are predictable. I know that when I drive my car too far or try to use public transport etc I will experience anxiety attack. It is directly connected to the situation, to the automatic thoughts that I have in this situation, to "what ifs", and their intensity is correlated with the level of stresfulness of the situation. Symptoms can be severe, mostly affecting heart and breathing. Anxiety attack can happen often, as often as I exspose myself to stressors. If exposure is short the symptoms will last shortly. While panic attacks are different. I don't even like to call them panic because panic for me is a direct response to something scary, and panic attacks happen in more or less random moments. They happen rarely. I clearly remember the first one, i was just in my room doing nothing in particular. I was so scared that I called my mom to come for me. It was about 12 years ago and since than I had maybe 2 of them every year. They develop gradually, not like typical rush of adrenaline, and last for 20-30 minutes. There are heart symptoms but in my case there are also waves of nausea and sometimes gagging reflex. Most of the time there are 2 or 3 waves like this, more or less severe. After such attack I feel very tired but somehow cleansed. My theory is that panic attacks happen when emotions(?) are accumulating for a long time and when some trigger (might be very small and insignificant) happens, body (mind?) just finally explodes, and gets reseted on its own. But I don't know, this is just what I assume after observing this phenomenon for so many years in my own case.
I like your comment and please excuse mine if you think I'm being flippant about your experiences. Neither are pleasant, but we manage to get through and keep going somehow. I hope your attacks will diminish or become less bothering in the future. X
I sense a bit of sarcasm...😆😆😆😆The echo effect was 👍♥️♥️It's all just a part of the same animal...So you treat it the same🐱🐈🐱😻😹😸
I just have to say, thank you for using the echo! It's good to have a laugh sometimes when being immersed in a serious subject! After a morning of extreme anxiety and a mini panic attack, I needed it. Oh, and the content was good, too! :) Rachel L.
Loved it Drew!!!!!!! I look forward to all of these 🙂
Didn't even know it was a thing. To me, this is like having intense talks on whether your anxiety in the line to the bank was a 6 or a 7.
The obsession to know "why-gawd-dammit-why this is happening to me" has at its root a desire to control, but control won't fix it. You never did have control and you're not gonna get it.
Each dysfunctional coping pattern has a higher octave, functional expression of the same core need. Control is the dysfunctional version of mastery. Control is the counterfeit, imitation Doritos junk food version of mastery.
We are fooled into thinking we need to control our environment by the stories in our heads. We create the very thing we are trying to save ourselves from when we spin down an internet rabbit hole trying to "understand." Well, usually we just emerge after all that screen time having forgotten to pee, eat, or cook a healthy meal feeling pretty horrible.
Did we actually understand, or did we load our guns with ammunition to argue the point with someone? Did we actually sense into ourselves the eternal truth? Do we have faith that ever next step is illuminated and that all of our true needs are always, always – even already met? There is NO mastery without this faith.
This is where the wholeness is, and there's no healing without this wholeness.
Love this also, beautifully expressed👍🏼
Love this. Certainty drives it all.....and wanting certainty just drives us further into the disorder.....Letting go of the reigns of needing all the answers and control is one of the main keys to success....Will I have an anxiety or panic attack? Maybe I will, maybe I'll have both, maybe I'll have none, oh well.....♥️♥️♥️
No truer words have been spoken Drew. What is important, is how we allow ourselves to accept whatever we are feeling without poking at it or dwelling on it. Labels don’t matter it’s how we process it. I am getting better everyday at practicing this and it’s not just geared toward anxiety but anything I may be feeling. Sadness, down in the dumps, hormones, life events etc. I try not to question or search for answers but just let it be. Currently I am on round two of covid 🤧. Last year having it I was an anxious mess. This time I’m like okay it’s covid my symptoms are from that. My body knows how to fight it I’ll just rest and allow time to heal. I’m learning to be content in all things. Still a work in progress but life will always be a work in progress 😉. Love you Big Guy
Umm sign me up to get a shirt! Seriously. “ I can survive transient states of variable discomfort.” 😂
Also sounds like a tattoo quote.
In all seriousness, I would buy that shirt 🤣
Yessss. Also, if you wade in to any anxiety-related content online, people will weaponize whatever they think the difference is. So if you say “I’ve learned to sit with panic attacks and not let them make decisions for me,” a flock will come out of the forest to say “Oh that might work for an ANXIETY attack. But a PANIC attack is different. You’ve clearly never experienced a panic attack because it’s completely different and that would never work.”
“Weaponize” is an accurate word here.
I don't think you can get all that on a T shirt that's readable, maybe just !!!! Will do. I never really thought there was much difference only the intensity. Get the other T shirt put with!!!!!! On it in bigger letters. The reactions are the same.
Actually I don't agree and this is something that I don't clearly understand. For me there is a difference for what I personally call panic attack and anxiety attack. Anxiety attacks are predictable. I know that when I drive my car too far or try to use public transport etc I will experience anxiety attack. It is directly connected to the situation, to the automatic thoughts that I have in this situation, to "what ifs", and their intensity is correlated with the level of stresfulness of the situation. Symptoms can be severe, mostly affecting heart and breathing. Anxiety attack can happen often, as often as I exspose myself to stressors. If exposure is short the symptoms will last shortly. While panic attacks are different. I don't even like to call them panic because panic for me is a direct response to something scary, and panic attacks happen in more or less random moments. They happen rarely. I clearly remember the first one, i was just in my room doing nothing in particular. I was so scared that I called my mom to come for me. It was about 12 years ago and since than I had maybe 2 of them every year. They develop gradually, not like typical rush of adrenaline, and last for 20-30 minutes. There are heart symptoms but in my case there are also waves of nausea and sometimes gagging reflex. Most of the time there are 2 or 3 waves like this, more or less severe. After such attack I feel very tired but somehow cleansed. My theory is that panic attacks happen when emotions(?) are accumulating for a long time and when some trigger (might be very small and insignificant) happens, body (mind?) just finally explodes, and gets reseted on its own. But I don't know, this is just what I assume after observing this phenomenon for so many years in my own case.
I like your comment and please excuse mine if you think I'm being flippant about your experiences. Neither are pleasant, but we manage to get through and keep going somehow. I hope your attacks will diminish or become less bothering in the future. X