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Sport and panic

Hi, I had the same problem till a few months ago. Now I don´t have.
What I did was using chalenge thoughts while I was training, and I didn´t stopped or gived up training. I trained always on a confortable zone to gain confidence, not increasing too much the intensity. Little by little my negative thoughts gonne away and I could increase the intensity of my training.
Also helped me a lot to focus on training exercices, being interested in sport nutrition, fitness and goal exercices. So that when I was training I focused on my evolution on training instead of being worried on physical symptoms I could have.
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challeging a negative thought from a friend

Recently I share with 3 diferent friends a new event from my life. I meet a new person that I like, it´s very recently, we are knowing each other. Everithing could happen, nothing is granted, I know.
I was happy to share with these friends, but their reaction was expressed in negative pre-formed ideias from romance in these days. For example, one said "that could be not truth what he said", other "may be he is married".
I didn´t wanted, but these reactions partially influenced me in negative way. These thoughts were in my head and because of my doubts I didn´t go to a date I planned. I regret that so much, because my date becamed very sad with me.
I learned to trust my feeling and thoughts, and try not to be influenced by others.
Since everithing could happen in future, and normally positive leads to positive, and negative leads to negative, we should chouse positive way. Even a positive thought could transform a negative one, so I´ll try to choose always this path.
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Simulating and medication

Davit, thank you so much for your advice. It´s a great ideia. I´m getting courage to do it, it´s a great start to be more confidente in that situations.
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Simulating and medication

I did my first try yesterday. I spoke with a new person by skype. It was strange. My thoughts were freezed most of time.
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Holiday Success

Thank you for your sweet message.
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Very low energy during the day

Today my mother visited me at my house and wake me up at 13:30 PM. If wasn´t she may be I continue in bed. Being in bed is like avoiding life, I feel confortable there. 
I don´t feel motivation for being up all day. I run my own business, but I don´t open it in the morning. This is causing me money problems. I´m not sad, I´m with lack of motivation, don´t enjoy my job, because I know when I finished it, I´ll be alone at my home, a lot of silent there.
I feel joy when I´m with friends, at a dinner for example. I´m trying a lot of ways to have friends I like, but I continue being alone.
Last 10 years I´ve been focused running my own business, I had sucess. When I worked I don´t thinked in my life, but I turned like a computer machine, with no feelings or thoughts, just obsessed with work. Now I don´t wan´t to continue doing that, but I see my life is empty, with a lot of silence around me.
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Very low energy during the day

Thank you for trying to help. I don´t have panick attacks now as before, the program really helped me. 

Jaydee, since my childyouth I like adventurous sports related to nature. It´s the only thing it occurs in my mind now. I have difficult to find little rewards, may be the scent of a candle would be a good ideia to start too. It´s hard for me to think of little rewards because small pleasures is something dificult to feel now. 

Davit, I´ve been medicated for low-moderate depression for the last 20 years. My business get wrong when I felt dispointed beacuse a competitor made a copy of my business and half of my clients gonne to this competitor. I got disapointed because I felt that "crime does pay" instead of "crime does not pay". Since than I never felt motivated to work as before again.
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Very low energy during the day

Davit, now I see I gived up and choose avoidance about my business. It seam you did it too at young age about electronics. That´s why we regret so much. We didn´t have the social support (family would be enough) we needed at that stage so that we can forward our aims.
8 years ago 0 60 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Gym collegues

I´m at a gym around 2 years. A few times I thinked to give up and go to another gym, but now I´m thinking more seriously. I see all the people talking to each other, and me, I only talk with one girl. I feel very bad. When I´m doing my exercices I´m ok, but when I need to do rest time, I don´t know were to look, feel embaressed. 
It´s too much time to not feel integrated, because there always the same people there, I should be integrated with them. But because of my anxiety I can not relax and make connection with others. I can try talk, and I´m very good at it, but the only thing I´m doing is theatre. I can not make an evolution with people there and feel more and more integrated and relaxed.
I think my gym isn´t very cosy too, because even monitor, not only one time in 2 years asked me if I need any help. I have to study exercices for myone on youtube. 
I feel I have reasons, like a comun girl, to change gym. But I don´t like the feeling of giving up, I´m very disapointed with myself of not been integrated socialy there.
I feel, I wasting my time there, may be in other gym I´ll find more empaty with new persons and will be more easy for me to integrate.
I was already in other gym for 3 months before this one and I feeled much much better there.
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Gym collegues

Hi Ashley, I don´t know what´s happening to me, because I can do what you said, talking with collegues or with monitor. But nothing change with time, I do not get more and more relaxed. 
That makes me think, and seeing, that I´m not interested talking with this persons, I think it´s too booring. I can not find interesting talking with every persons like some very social people like to do. I think this is not a problem. 
I think my problem is, when I get curious and would like to meet 2 or 3 persons of my gym, but don´t know how to reach them. I already tryed to do small aproches, but can not make evolution. And my mood it´s too low, so I feel I do not create interest to attract people to me. They do not try to make any aproach to me, after my efforts.
Also my mood atract low mood of others persons too. I feel I make others people decrease their mood too, because I see they are nice to everione and to me they don´t have problems being more rude. For example one girl wanted to go to my workout machine, and she was rude asking why I don´t go to another machine or change my exercices (so that she can do their without having to wait for me to finish), I see this young girl distributing smiles to everione, so I got surprised with that atitude.
Other girl that is very social and everione likes, became my friend there, now starting depreciating my physical aspect. Even she told to me I´m old. When I´m with very good aspect with a good gym outfit, she compliment me, but then she put me a defect on my physical body.
Don´t know, but I see people are very confortable, saying rude things to me. May be I have a caracteristic personality for bulling?
I´m trying and working to create more positive situations for me, I need to increase my mood, to stop this negative cicle it´s happening to me. But it´s very tyring.