Posted by Ritch on February 25, 2003, at 23:55:12
In reply to Re: GAD AS A DIAGNOSIS, posted by TommyTommy on February 25, 2003, at 13:28:19
> Thanks Ritch for your insight. When I was 15, I started analyzing the meaning of life to the point I convinced myself it was worthless to live because all were going to do is die. I spent every bit of mental energy analyzing this and of coarse you can't come up with answers to things we don't have factual proof to. After I exhausted myself with analyzing the meaning life it turned into a full fledged obsession to analyze everything you could possibly imagine and I don't really need to go into detail because most of it was so bizarre, far fetched and stupid. But to me it was all real and scary. Now all I seem to analyze is my day to day minute to minute awareness of how I feel mentally and how I am acting socially. I can change my states of mind it seems within a thought and go from confident to unconfident. Can you relate at all to this? What do you reccomend to combat this?
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That sounds more like phobic anxiety/OCD rather than GAD (although I am convinced they share similar circuits). My "worrying" tends to just slowly decay with a little time after everyday events that provoke it. IOW, I slowly stop rehearsing the events that led up to something breaking or failing and stop thinking about them-because I carefully realize that I don't have any CONTROL over them-then I can let them go. The main trouble is the time burned up before I realize that I wasted a bunch of time! :-) Trying to solve *future* problems is another issue altogether. That's where the ADD comes in. It helps to be able to make numerous quick *simple* decisions and to make PLANS. If you are off in outerspace and absent-minded all of the time, there will be a lot of ordinary/everyday stuff that won't get accomplished that will put a big drag on you that you won't realize until you get out there aways.
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