With GAD, everything is anxiety. Everything. So last night when I was so uncomfortable I couldn't sleep and I was tossing and turning and growing increasingly immobile, I did an anxiety meditation. And Then I Slept 🤯 - ThreadSky

emilysuess.com • 13 days ago

With GAD, everything is anxiety. Everything.

So last night when I was so uncomfortable I couldn't sleep and I was tossing and turning and growing increasingly immobile, I did an anxiety meditation.

And
Then
I
Slept

🤯

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tetrisben.bsky.social•12 days ago

GAD sucks.

emilysuess.com•12 days ago

Hard agree

mrrb.bsky.social•13 days ago

My “favorite” thing is being sleepy and tired and the room temperature & my bed and everything is perfect… but my GAD decides that it is the perfect time to relive how horrible of a roommate I was as a college freshman. Thanks, brain, that’s really fucking helpful.

weezmack.bsky.social•13 days ago

Omg. Are we the same person??

mrrb.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh I sure hope there’s no one out there making the exact same mistakes I am 😳 the good things in my life are great but damn I don’t want anyone else to suffer through some of the shit I’ve faced!

emilysuess.com•13 days ago

Ugh. I know what you mean Those kinds of self-judgment thought loops are really hard to derail. When I can derail them at all.

mrrb.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yes!!! Like, the way I am a shitty housemate to my darling spouse today is completely different from how I was a shitty roommate then! Rehashing that shit doesn’t help me do/be better today!! Get with the program, brain, this primitive skills is no longer helpful.

emilysuess.com•13 days ago

"this primitive skill is no longer helpful"

PERFECT way to describe GAD

mrrb.bsky.social•13 days ago

We are no longer huddling in caves nor fighting off sabre-toothed tigers!! Bodies & brains are dumb.

You are not alone in Anxiety World. Just in case it wasn’t already clear!

emilysuess.com•13 days ago

🩷

weezmack.bsky.social•13 days ago

Any particular anxiety meditations you'd recommend? I need them! ❤️

weezmack.bsky.social•12 days ago

🙏 thank you. Looking into this now

emilysuess.com•12 days ago

I use them all, literally, but find the ones that incorporate breathing are for advanced use. The best ones for me are by Tara Brach. She has a podcast full of talks and meditations that bring me down a notch or two.

https://Tarabrach.com

emilysuess.com•13 days ago

And while tossing and turning and immobility may seem incompatible to the uninitiated, I promise if you saw me flopping around in desperate frustration, you'd be like, "Ohhhhhhh."

emilysuess.com•13 days ago

I think turning the lights out literally triggers an anxiety response.

(YStill laying off the B12 too.)

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wait...is B12 bad for anxiety?

emilysuess.com•12 days ago

I don't know. I suspect too much of keeping me wired and awake.

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