Baby Steps

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