Online course to help with anxiety

[emax]

Hello everyone,

I am new to beyondblue. I've been doing an online course to help cope with anxiety and I'm finding it kinda helpful but thought maybe if I had somewhere to talk to others who feel the same way I do it might make it easier to manage.

Some days I feel like the world is a dark and scary place and I am filled with dread and anxiety and hopelessness and other days i think 'nah, I'm fine, it's all ok, I WILL BE GREAT today", then i remember i forgot to get milk or something trivial and it all comes unhinged again.

I like exercising to Jessie J and Ellie Goulding because it makes me feel happier and calmer and cycle sprints give such a rush of endorphins, but some days it all seems like it will be too much effort so i just don't bother.

I wear myself out thinking and overthinking and trying to solve the worlds problems from inside my head, and just need to learn how to calm myself down and chill (or do something to distract myself) and to realise I'm not alone with this, that others go through it too and whilst I may not be mentally OK, I am only human and one day I will be.

Hope to make some buddies here that can grow with me 😉

[Beetle]

i can be your buddy max 🙂 welcome.

I know what you are going though. Anxiety is cruel!I am diagnosed with GAD and MDD and its hard work to keep me well and ok.

Good on you doing the online course 🙂 Hope it helps you a bit.

Let bus know how you go

Beetle xx

[emax]

thanks beetle 🙂

The course is ok, its more about techniques to help you manage it which is great but there's not really any discussion of why or whats causing it and how to figure the root out. It's also kinda surprising when i thinkbof how long I've been having anxiety isssues for without realising! I just thought i was highly strung 🙂

[Lisananette]

I am new too . I feel old and ugly I am 42. I never got to fall in love it's not going to happen now. That's life . How do I get to a place where I accept this is good as life gets .