Looking at how many other mental health
blogs are out there I felt totally overwhelmed
and thought what is the point? Which is typical of how I feel when the
anxiety kicks in and everything feels too much, to the point of not wanting to
even try. I manage to convince myself that I will fail before I have even
started. B I am trying to work on this, by
not trying I won’t fail but I also won’t get anywhere either.
As I am new to this, I thought this would
be a good place to start, talking about baby steps. I suffer with anxiety and
depression. The anxiety has been around since I was a child. It feels so all
consuming and debilitating at times that
it can be a struggle to get through the day and complete normal tasks. I am beyond exhausted from the constant chaos
in my mind that I feel like I have run a marathon.
So I am trying to make little changes and
keep up with them. I have started to add a 10 minute exercise routine in the
evening, as evenings can be one of the worst times for me, overthinking
everything that has happened that day or what I have to complete tomorrow. It gives me something to focus on. I am trying
to be more organized too. For example, getting everything ready that I need for the next morning does make things easier. I am trying to find at least one good thing
that happened in the day and make a note of it, even if the only thing was I
made a nice cup of coffee earlier! Then
I can look back at the good points from the week and see what I have achieved.
The
little things do add up, even when you feel that they don’t, after all
“The
little things mean everything” -Matthew
Ryan
