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New to the Forum - Hello

Spud48 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:38:15 GMT

Hello all,

Suffered from anxiety 35 years + As long as I can remember.

Have a great Family - Wife and 2 wonderful Kids - Life is great but still struggle from time to time.

Spud48

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Quercus — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:19:15 GMT

Hello Spud48,

Welcome to the forum family. Every one of us here have lived through the anxiety of posting for the first time and it isn't easy to do. So thank you for joining in and introducing yourself.

It is awesome to hear you have a wonderful family and offline life. Is your anxiety giving you trouble again lately? No pressure to answer that ok just wondering what sort of threads would be helpful to you at the moment.

Feel free to join in around the forums, 35 years of experience in managing anxiety is a credit to you.

Lovely to meet you.

Nat

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geoff — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:38:38 GMT

Hello Spud, a warm welcome to the site.

Having anxiety for that amount of time must have been exhausting and we always believe that being happily married with a couple of kids is just perfect, but unfortunately, there are many factors that affect us which are hidden away, whether it's work, your relationship with other people or family or something that only you know about.

Have a browse around the different sections and in particular the anxiety one, and if you want to feel a bit more relaxed in some spare time please go the BB cafe, this where people have a much lighter sense of humour, although they still post on other much more concerned threads, but it would be great to hear back from you.

Best wishes.

Geoff.

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Spud48 — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:22:06 GMT

Hi Nat,

Thanks for your message, Yes its flared up again,

Im running a business with 9 staff - I thin the pressure of this + social expectation and my expectation

of myself has a big factor on the way I feel. I have also mixed my exercise for the last six weeks or so with and arm injury which has not helped. I just had my first day back at boot camp this morning and it was great. It really improves my outlook on the day. I know what I have to do to manage my anxiety but sometimes it just gets hard dragging myself up all the time. But I have to for my family and for myself.

Thanks again for your message

Spud

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Spud48 — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:30:49 GMT

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for your message, Yeps its been a battle and i guess it will continue.

I just have to keep managing it the best I can, I think this forum will be great and its also great to vent

a little to people who understand.

Cheers

Spud