acasey
08-06-2011, 03:04 PM
Hi everyone, its been awhile since i was last on here. I made myself stay off of all these forums and websites about anxiety. how can you recover from anxiety when its all you think about right? so the fact that here I am again, is not a good feeling. I have been "trying" to recover from anxiety for about 2 months now. I have come a long way! but just when i was starting to feel like i was getting back to normal. BAM! it feels like im back at square one again. Although i know all the things iv learned to overcome this, its seems when my anxiety is high i have a harder time applying it. Most of my symptoms had disappeared, just a few lingering that were no longer bothering me. in the last couple weeks i have let my stress build and build. trying to find a job in nursing is not an easy task. putting so much effort into finding one, and not even getting one single call back was really getting me down. I feel my life is sort of on hold right now until i can start working. so thats got my stress going up. then i was in the midst of planning my best friends bridal shower, that did not help with the stress either. But the other day i started thinking about how bad its pissing me off that im still not 100%. probably 80%, but thats just not good enough! so i started focusing on symptoms again, feeling sorry for myself and constantly analyzing how i feel. so because i am probably the most inpatient person in the entire world, i now feel like im back at square one. I know that when you are recovering from anxiety it takes alot of time, and there will be setbacks. and i know that this is a set back for sure. but my question is for anyone who has recoverd from anxiety or is in the process of recovering. is there anything i can do to avoid setbacks? or is it going to happen no matter what, despite my efforts? im having a hard time accepting that it may still be awhile before im 100%. I get very down wondering if i will ever feel completly 'normal' again. i just need some advise i guess. any suggestiongs on how to get back on track to my recovery.