Anxiety is my constant companion. I’m always anxious and it only varies in degrees. It’s been this way my entire life. Nothing really changes that fact.
@autism101@actuallyautistic Yup - I live with constant anxiety that waits for situations to blame. Given world events, my anxiety is skyrocketing. I use breathing meditation and EFT/Tapping to calm my body/mind.
@CuriousMagpie@autism101@actuallyautistic same, anxious child, anxious adult. Difference : as a child, I was able to believe things would be better in the future. Now, I barely see anything to counterbalance my anxiety in the near future the acts of a few political idiots promise to us.
@Dremmwel@autism101@actuallyautistic When I feel that way (often) I try to remember two things.
First, the concept of emergence that I first learned about through Margaret Wheatley.
The second is this quote from Ursula LeGuin:
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
@autism101@actuallyautistic
I try to be aware emotionally and physically which is difficult so when I feel 😬. I used to try to hide it from myself. Mostly because most things I tried didn’t work. Probably those memories were shaped when I was a different person. So if I take my old anxiety’s and acknowledge that happens and I wasn’t so aware I try and be incredibly kinder in general to myself. I also try to see what I was doing before the emotion sets in to process what came before.🧐
@autism101 I have had differing degrees of anxiety all my life. Sometimes I can deal with it, but most often it overwhelms me. It caused the most awful panic attacks. @actuallyautistic
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