solace© : and break them down into simple elements, and examine what pieces of them are the scariest.. or make us most uneasy, or feel the most like something that we cannot change

 

Alleged_Mule : do you mean just normal everyday anxieties  that we all have

 

solace© : these pieces usually are big keys to what lies beneath

 

Laurelovely01 : solace...do ppl suffer from anxiety attacks who dont have depression as well....everyone ive known to suffer from anxiety is also suffering from depression

 

solace© : yup them too... for the average anxiety suffferer, the everyday stuff is intensified by the worry it will bring on another attack

    

Alleged_Mule : ok ty

 

solace© : yes people without depression do suffer anxiety

 

Laurelovely01 : ok...i was just thinking how difficult this task you are suggesting would be with the addition of depression...sorry for interruption

 

solace© : they are commonly linked, and in some of those cases you are looking at chemical depletinos that are adding to the overall 'problem'

 

solace© : no prob at all

 

solace© : and i agree,. especially since depression is horrible for motivation

 

Whispering_Moon® : sol?

 

solace© : yes?

 

Whispering_Moon® : i admit i am not one able to journal

 

 

Whispering_Moon® : i do not have the stick to it ness

 

solace© : that's ok.. not everything works for everybody

 

solace© : hiya gidgey

 

solace© : or else we'd have a cure by now... simplum fix-it     solace© : some people like the journal 'cause it's like a big table or graph

 

solace© : it demonstrates how our thoughts and moods generate our behavious and physical reactions (and viceversa)... to create our total daily environment

 

solace© : as a seemingly complex package...

 

solace© : they apply to past and present thougts/ideas/beliefs/memories

 

solace© : and it is the combination of these things that can help us understand what is giong on

 

solace© : understanding what is giong on in our bodies and minds is comforting

 

solace© : so to sum it up, the key to discovering triggers, both major an dminor, conscious and subconscious, we need to understand how our concpets of now mingle with our memories and concepts of past to create our predispositions to stimuli in the now moments

 

solace© : once we understand this, we may be able to change how we think about aspects of life in general and doing so may allievate many anxieties common to us now

 

solace© : make sense?

 

Alleged_Mule : it does ty

 

ĞIDgEŸ : yes

 

ĞIDgEŸ : thank you

 

intense_female : yep yep

 

solace© : okeee

 

intense_female : so solace you could use this for anger triggers too huh?

 

intense_female : or any really

 

solace© : yeah sure

 

Laurelovely01 : this isnt easy by any stretch of your imagination however

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : lol

 

solace© : nope...

 

solace© : bits are , other bits are not

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : but is it simple?

 

ĞIDgEŸ : being a writer i hate writing down my personal shit tho

 

ĞIDgEŸ : hehehe

 

ĞIDgEŸ : but it would serve as a graph

 

solace© : lol- i'm the opposite.. well as long as i dont' say "i"

    

ĞIDgEŸ : lmao

 

Máidën : that's the way to do it acie

 

Máidën : (((((((((((((((gidgeymoma))))))))))))))))))

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : your away maiden so u cant add anything

 

 

intense_female : solace,  my mom was in labor with me for 24 hrs... so when she had labor pains with my brother she ate 1/2 a tuna sandwich figuring it would be hours before she actually gave birth

 

Whispering_Moon® : ok sol for the sake of knowing

 

intense_female : but it wasnt hours and the entire time she was in hard labor she smelled the tuna

 

Whispering_Moon® : lets say i know i am having them and now know why i am having them

 

intense_female : for 10 years after everytime she smelled tuna she would throw up and start sweating

 

Máidën : oh no intense

 

Whispering_Moon® : what do i do about them if i want to avoid drugs

 

solace© : lmao

 

ĞIDgEŸ : rofl

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : avoid drugs?

 

intense_female : but its like anxiety

 

solace© : yup.....

 

intense_female : i mean its a fear response really

 

Laurelovely01 : yeah exactly intense....a trigger

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : i ask the same question only how do i Intercept drugs

 

intense_female : lol worm

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : trigger

 

intense_female : cute moon and she'll kick you down

 

solace© : one woman i know avoids spicy foods, 'cause pains remind her of labour lol

 

intense_female : Solace you got moon's question?

 

Whispering_Moon® : using drugs for the attacks

 

solace© : yes

 

solace© : if you want to avoid using drugs... our "coping" segment

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : Coping_Villain

 

intense_female : shhhhht

 

Laurelovely01 : solace...are you saying the awareness of triggers is enough to minimize the attacks?

 

intense_female :  ty

 

solace© : coping is the fun part.. 'cause you know sometimes when anxiety makes you feel like you are going crazy? now you can act it out

 

solace© : it can in many cases laurel

 

solace© : it provides a focus, a point of attack if you will, agianst the anxiety itself

 

solace© : part of the power of anxiety is the way it can make a person feel helpless

 

Alleged_Mule : how so solace

 

Alleged_Mule : oh ok lol

 

solace© : ok good lol

 

solace© : now

 

Laurelovely01 : or it could feed the anxiety

 

Laurelovely01 : like...i have to go into a crowd

 

solace© : being afraid of what you are afraid of?

 

Laurelovely01 : i know i cant do it

 

Laurelovely01 : i know i have to

 

Laurelovely01 : so i know its gonna be bad

 

Laurelovely01 : make sense?

 

ĞIDgEŸ : yes

 

solace© : right.. so if you recognize that as your trigger... then what

 

solace© : you can continue to repeat what you jsut typed in your head

 

Whispering_Moon® : solace i had an attack while standing in line waiting to put something on layaway i could smell the smell of new shoes and it was hot in the store and whizzzz away i went i had fighty and flighty reaction i do not want htis again

 

solace© : or you can go, "oh well, hear goes... i'm just walking down the street... i'm just walking by that person... look at her shoes!... i'm half way through... the sky is very blue today... almost there... i hate this... two more feet to go...  i will take a

 

solace© : deep breath.....

 

solace© : i understand moon

 

Laurelovely01 : ok i get it ty

 

ĞIDgEŸ : i understand that feeling Moon too

 

Alleged_Mule : better than old shoes moon escpecially a pair of mine lol

 

solace© : when we need to cope with an anxiety attack, much like quitting an addiction, we need to decide to just do it

 

Whispering_Moon® : lol

 

solace© : lol

 

ĞIDgEŸ : you know for me when i can i take one moment at time

 

solace© : regardless if we succeed in feeling different or not...

 

ĞIDgEŸ : it is the things that catch me off guard

 

ĞIDgEŸ : when i can take it one moment at a time*

 

solace© : one thing we can do to cope is to say :

 

ĞIDgEŸ : i dont think too for into the future just one step of what i have to do

 

solace© : i'm having an anxiety attack (getting dizzy,, feeling funny...etc), oh well, it'll pass when it's done... "

 

solace© : and then think of something else

 

intense_female : ah like an earthquake

 

intense_female : lol

 

ĞIDgEŸ : refocus?

 

solace© : yeah...lol

 

solace© : right

 

intense_female : we run to the window to watch the transformers explode

 

solace© : we're all pretty familiar with energy and its uses

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : villain isnt familiar with anything

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : im a spiritual poser

 

solace© : we can feed our anxiety with our energy, or we can focus our energy elsewhere

 

solace© : the technique here is generally called distraction

 

solace© : not aviodance.. but distraction

 

Alleged_Mule : so knowing its coming you can brace yourself to ride it out lol

 

solace© : for example taking asa for a dislocated shoulder kills the pain but doesn't pop the joint back together

 

solace© : poping the joint back in its socket may be painful and unpleasant, but in the long run will ease the pain

 

Whispering_Moon® : sounds sooo easy

 

solace© : sounds, lol...

 

solace© : try this sometime:

 

solace© : take a deep breath, as you exhale reach for an object aruond you

 

solace© : grasp it, examine it, and place it down

 

solace© : take a nother deep breath, reach for something else, even if you cannot actually reach the object examine it with your eyes (and you can mentally reach if you cannot physically stretch a limb)

    

solace© : *reach as you exhale

 

solace© : do this randomly

 

solace© : then the next time you being to feel overwhelmed, stop and take a deep breath, and reach for something

 

solace© : mentally, or even physically

 

solace© : examine it, look for the minute detail you never thought to consider before, and how unique that object is

 

solace© : even fluff has texture and content

 

solace© : msot of us just haven't spent that much time with fluff before

 

intense_female : i've met some fluffy people that didnt

 

solace© : lol

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ : witan for example lol jk jk jk

 

intense_female : lol

 

solace© : sometimes i am full of little fluffy people

 

Alleged_Mule : yeah  but thats cali  home of fluff lol

 

solace© : (emoticon...)

 

intense_female : yeah Witan certainly is fluffy isnt he? ha

    

intense_female :

    

ĞIDgEŸ : haha

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ saving that quote

 

Laurelovely01 : witan?

 

Laurelovely01 : who's that?

 

intense_female : lol

 

GIDgEŸ : lol

 

intense_female : a mean ghost

 

Máidën : i heard fluffy

 

intense_female : that loves us enough to abuse us

 

solace© : lmao

 

intense_female : okay sorry solace........... please go on

 

solace© : where were we?

 

ĞIDgEŸ : fluffy?

 

intense_female : focus on fluff

 

solace© : doh!

 

solace© : right..

 

Alleged_Mule : you were talking about focus to

 

Alleged_Mule : get thru i tyhink

 

intense_female : lol

 

solace© : ok so that's typical of distraction.. changing focus, and the like

 

intense_female : try to focus solace

 

intense_female : lol

 

solace© : another thing to do is to change the way we think on a sentance by sentance level

 

Rûthlëss_Víllåiñ writes in journal"solace's unfocusness is giving me anxiety attack

 

ĞIDgEŸ : shhhhhh

 

intense_female : you can kick him

 

solace© : if i walk into a crowd and think "holy schmoly this is a lot of people" i get queasy...