I have a lot of anxiety because I pretty much lived on edge as a kid and as a teenager. Regardless of how peaceful my current enviorment is I feel really anxious as if I were expecting something to go wrong. I also don't want to let my guard down just in case. It's affecting my health, I'm losing my hair, I can't eat due to the anxiety as I lose my appetite quite often and I feel tired pretty much alwaysWhat can I do?
have tou ever gone jogging outdoors
>>34206180You need to let go.PTSD is a groundhog day infinity loop of constantly opening the same door to the same event every single fucking time. You need to let the door stay closed or open a new door.Accept what happened, life dealt you a bad hand and you had to experience the results from that. However the wheel of fortune continues to spin, you lose some cards but gain new ones. If you play the game as if you had your old bad cards then you'll never play a winning hand. Stop looking for the other shoe anon, take it from me. Who has had a life of a peasant but now witnessing the views of a king. It does get better, time does heal you, it will never truly 100% go away but it does get weaker as you get stronger. Rearrange the furniture, clean the place, touch every wall and surface of your new environment. Ground yourself in your fresh start. Actively and autistically categorize and bask in every detail to your new less-stressed enviornment. Breathe the new air in, pay attention to how it all smells too and I mean really pay attention to that different smell. Be less harsh on yourself, you can punish yourself by channeling your pain into something else like art, like work, like wood working, like making a wonderful machine or repairing that car, whatever you wish to do actively associate the new environment with these things so your brain associates peace with pleasure not finding where and when it's going to all come crashing down. It won't fail unless you permit it, be kind anon. To yourself and to others, and thank me by paying all of this forward to the next poor sap who needs a friend.
>>34206180Worship God.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UcLDOKplOwEliminate sugar from diet. Eat whole food diet. Consume multi-vitamin. Maintain regular sleep schedule. Commit to light, regular exercise routine. Research and practice skills in resilience. Develop strong social circle. Join Catholic or Orthodox church. Have faith. :)The Lord is close to the brokenhearted..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndvVwIpMgU
>>34206180There's mental component to healing from (assuming based on your description) complex PTSD that >>34206729 this anon describes pretty well.There's also a physical component, though. Your entire nervous system has been trained to be geared towards expecting danger and reacting to it quickly to secure survival. Your reptile brain has this automatism down to perfection because it helped you survive, and before your conscious mind can even form the thought "I am not in danger", your body has already shifted gears and gotten itself ready for fight/flight/freeze/fawn. There's a great book called "the body keeps the score" that illuminates a lot on this topic. I've heard somatic experiencing therapy helps, and EMDR also looks promising.An important part is also identifying your trauma triggers. I've grown up in a household where violence was always preceded by people getting progressively louder (raising voices, stomping, banging doors) so I'm instantly on edge when someone raises their voice. Your triggers may look different, it all depends on what caused your trauma in the first place. From one anxious cptsd sufferer to another, I hope you find a way to heal.
