Subj : Re: Anxiety (Get Nervous)
To   : boraxman
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Mar 06 2022 21:06:00

-=> On 03-04-22 23:20, boraxman wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 bo> At the time, I thought part of the reason for my calm was because
 bo> something was going to happen which would stir things up, which would
 bo> result in change. Realising that mother nature still had more power
 bo> than man, than those who decide how our lives should be, was somehow
 bo> comforting.

Yeah the pandemic itself didn't really bother me much.  The bigger issue was
how to deal with the measures used to control the pandemic, with constantly
changing rules.  I did adapt fairly successfully, though at a cost of my
ability to manage a lot of day to day things, which was always severely
imited.

 Vk> In my case, the causes are hard to pin down.  I had started EMDR
 Vk> therapy, but covid keeps ghetting in the way, because it requires face
 Vk> to face contact in my case, and that hasn't been possible for most of
 Vk> the past 2 years.
 Vk>

 bo> They can be hard to pin down, but I find you shouldn't overthink.
 bo> Sometimes a stray thought will enter my head, something vague, hard to
 bo> pin down and I'll feel anxious.  What I do, is ignore it, and
 bo> concentrate on those things I *know* are pressing issues and problems.
 bo> If I work on the problems I know, then the vague anxieties become less
 bo> of a problem.

Yeah, overthinking is an issue, but so is being blindsided by something
unexpected, then finding there's this whole web of stuff behind it, that's
messy to deal with (and mostly still poorly understood).



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