I’m new here. I’m Natalie. I have trouble with anxiety and major depressive disorder that I can no longer mask with my DOC. I need help with ideas to manage my stress and sadness and anger.
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Hello Natalie,
I’m here to share with you that it’s not easy dealing with anxiety and depression. I struggle with that too. I write in my journal, and read a good book like, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Get back to me anytime. For now make it a good day. To be continued….
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Hi Natalie, I suffer with anxiety as well. There were times I find it almost impossible to leave the house. The book "the subtle art of not giving a f***" was helpful to be and "not nice" if you're an anxious people pleaser. "Rejection proof" if that's where your anxiety stems. As far an the anger and depression I found running and boxing and any high intensity work out to be an extremely helpful was to redirect that energy.
There are medications that target specifically anxiety and supplements. Just sayin’. I tried to ‘self medicate’ for a long time. Until I got evaluated and the proper meds.
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Hi Natalie: Hope you are having some less anxious moments today friend!
Meeting people is very important.getting to meetings
Hi again Natalie: what do you mean “I can no longer mask with my DOC”
Hey Natalie. Are you early in recovery? The anxiety and depression is normal. It’s your body getting used to this thing called “feelings” and once we’re off out DOC we’re up and down for sure. It gets better.
In my addiction my anxiety and depression was suicidal. When I first got sober after a terrible and deadly relapse it was difficult to say the least. I came home and went into the worst panic attack I ever had. Which in turn went into a asthma attack also. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. It was scary. But not as scary as the many seizures I had in my addiction. So I had to see a Counselor and psychiatrist. Well I was diagnosed bipolar PDST and him traumatized from my addiction and my life of abuse of every kind. So I wasn’t crazy like I thought. But with mental health there is a chemical imbalance in the brain. So I am on antidepressants and mood stabilizer and a couple other pills. It took a little time for my doctor to find the right combination of meds. But I have never felt so okay as I do now. I hope this helps. I also meditate and do yoga which is fantastic for me.
First of all you need to find the source of all this. This did not happen by coincidence? You true to your self your doctor and therapist who ever you go for help. If your not they can’t help deal with no information or the wrong information.
Hi im Linda like Chris says the 4 agreements is very helpful there's an app for for that book in your application store in your cell or find a copy in the library? Or amazon plus... Either emotionsanonymous.org and/or coda.org (codependents anonymous) will definitely help you ok? Make the zoom (app) meetings you do save gas? But you do learn better in person. Make those meetings coda helped me ALOT!!! Set healthier boundaries... God bless linda
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Hi Chris btw... Your application store in your cell? Has the 4 agreements book in there ok? God bless linda
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I set daily goals even something as small as changing my sheets also I write in my journal…
Natalie have u tried NA I know it can be a cliche but it helps alot of ppl...I have a program that may help u also
MEDITATION!! It has changed my life
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Walking, exercise, lots of sunlight, keeping in touch with people who understand what you are going through.
I don't know if I can say this here, but if all of that does not work for you...you might need medical and talk therapy. Eventually that was my experience. I am on Effexor for depression and anxiety. Game changer. I have had no effects from it whatsoever.
No negative effects, I meant
Live in present and don't think about future.
For me getting obsessed with fitness and faith transformed me. Mental, physical, spiritual if you get those three pieces life is so much better. Working out is a healthy addiction most people refer to it as their therapy for a reason.
After a while I figured out that my DOC was the cause of the anxiety and depression. My recovery program showed me how to live without anxiety and without the booze destroying my body my brain chemistry started to level out.