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Hey again hateaddict I hope that my advice is at least a tenth as good as yours. I don't have Tourettes, but I do tend to shout out/double over in response to certain thoughts. I've found that I need to immediately refocus on what I'm doing - you'll probably know the 5 things approach, where you nam...

Thanks again, hateaddict, that's really good advice. I've been doing some dialoguing (making the thoughts one character and responding to them with a character which is kind, caring and sees what's real) and that's been helping. It feels a bit cringeworthy (like you said about the stuff you created ...

Also, when he did say he didn't feel the spark and no excitement etc etc I calmly asked him 'okay so what would you like to do about it' And he got really wound up. He said he wanted to discuss his feelings with me and I shouldn't ask that question. I said to him 'I don't mean it in a bad way, I do...

You are incredibly wise for someone who isn't yet at high school. Thank you for such great advice. I think there is worth in looking at the things which are hurting me - when I journalled earlier on, I felt better for a short while, before the anxiety came back. I realised that I hadn't finished wha...

Thanks hateaddict for replying to both my threads. I know what I want - I want to have a happy life with my partner, but these anxious thoughts are all about what if I don't love him. I'm desperate to do anything I can to get through this and have the happy life that I know we had before all this ki...

Hello I am pushing really hard to deal with previous experiences that are causing projections. But every time I feel like I am chipping away at the pain inside, the anxiety comes back with a vengeance. Is this normal? Am I doing the right thing by looking at past experience which has resulted in neg...

Thank you hopeful, Thank you for your kind and wise words. I am incredibly impatient with myself - I keep hoping that I will just find the answer and things will click back to normal, but I need to accept that this is a process. Right now I'm doing a lot of work on past pain, and I guess this is wha...

Please, if anyone has any advice, good or bad, I really need it. I feel like I'm sinking further and further.

Hello Sorry to be straying into this forum - felt like this didn't fit under anxiety. From working with my counsellor, I have found that under my anxiety is a layer of depression. The anxiety is (I hope) slowly dying away, but now I just feel sad and empty. I have painful headaches and pain all over...

Hey walkingonglass, I'm sorry you're experiencing this. I know I feel awful that my partner is on the end of my relationship anxiety. Has your partner been diagnosed with anxiety? What does he get anxious about? Does he get anxiety about not wanting to be with you, or are the comments around a lack ...

I'm back in the bathroom again, 3 years old, telling my Mum that I love her much more than I love Dad. I can't remember the response or why I was saying that, but I clearly remember my Dad walking past at that exact moment. I remember the guilt I felt that he had heard me say this. I remember that I...

Candid wrote:Only 27 posts in seven years?

Yep, though to be fair to myself I haven't been active on the board for 7 years. I came here looking for help, I got better, and now I'm back with renewed anxiety but it's really nice to have friendly people on the board and people who understand

Last night I felt angry by my family. I started writing a post on here about everything that had happened, but when I read it, it seemed so petty and childish. I saved it in a private place on my computer, and left it there. I am angry with my family, but not about the silly things which annoyed me ...

It's weird, it did help to talk about it at the time, but afterwards I felt really down. I let myself feel that way, because I figure that it's no use trying to think my way out of it or trying to shut it off - I feel guilty for leaving my family, and so I need to let those feelings have their time,...

Dear Mum You will never read this, but I needed to write it. Do you remember when I was 3 years old? I remember the summer when I was 3 years old - you were standing in the bathroom, and I can't remember why, but I came in to tell you that I loved you much more than Dad. I remember, again and again,...