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Life's A Chibi: Anxiety
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The voice in your head, your own voice, is filling your mind with questions and concerns like someone holding down a fast-forward button. You ask yourself questions you don't know the answer to. You think of possible outcomes of something that has not happened yet or never will. You think of situations in your life or another's that might not be true. You try to find the answer to the question no one asked or is not important. The flow of voices and questions continue to fill your head like water being poured too quickly in a glass. You start to get worried about not knowing the unknown. You find yourself stirring awake late at night, unable to get any sleep. The gears in your head continue to turn and rotate, unable to stop. You break down, feel like crying, curling in a corner, and try to hide from the thoughts and questions that still continue to come to you.
You need a calm voice to help you answer some of those questions, even if they are not the answers you are looking for. That voice mostly tells you to calm down and relax, like a parent trying to calm a crying child to sleep. The voice tells you not to worry and not to beat yourself up over something you can't control. The voice tells you to talk to it and tell it what is on your mind and what brought this speeding train of questions to go through your mind. You talk about them, almost as fast as the voice you hear in your head. As you talk about them to the one with the open ear to you, you slowly start to feel a bit more relaxed. You slowly start to think about what you are saying, realizing that what you are worrying about sounds fictitious and not worth worrying over.
Sometimes, when you speak the questions that fill your head, you get more panicked. Your friend, the one who is listening to you, continues to calm you down by trying to clear the random thoughts in your head. Your friend continues to tell you not to worry, breathe and relax. Just hearing your friend trying to help you calm down helps. The thoughts in your head start to slow down and vanish, even the ones that you can't answer are slipping away. The calmer your breathing, the less the voice in your head speaks.
When someone has an anxiety attack, it is always best to be by that person and hear them out. You are the voice of reason in this situation and the only one at that moment who can help heal the other by your kind and supporting words. Calm their breathing, always tell them that you are here and you won't leave until the anxiety attack fades. Be the one to clear those shadows from the clouds of thought away from your friend and allow some light to shine on them instead.
There are times when you are alone and you have to calm yourself from an anxiety attack. You constantly have to tell yourself to "breathe slowly", "calm down", "focus" and "relax". Breath is the horse, mind is the rider. If the breath is out of control the rider gets thrown off. Once calm, the ride becomes smoother and balanced.
artwork © 2014 Alex Cockburn
The voice in your head, your own voice, is filling your mind with questions and concerns like someone holding down a fast-forward button. You ask yourself questions you don't know the answer to. You think of possible outcomes of something that has not happened yet or never will. You think of situations in your life or another's that might not be true. You try to find the answer to the question no one asked or is not important. The flow of voices and questions continue to fill your head like water being poured too quickly in a glass. You start to get worried about not knowing the unknown. You find yourself stirring awake late at night, unable to get any sleep. The gears in your head continue to turn and rotate, unable to stop. You break down, feel like crying, curling in a corner, and try to hide from the thoughts and questions that still continue to come to you.
You need a calm voice to help you answer some of those questions, even if they are not the answers you are looking for. That voice mostly tells you to calm down and relax, like a parent trying to calm a crying child to sleep. The voice tells you not to worry and not to beat yourself up over something you can't control. The voice tells you to talk to it and tell it what is on your mind and what brought this speeding train of questions to go through your mind. You talk about them, almost as fast as the voice you hear in your head. As you talk about them to the one with the open ear to you, you slowly start to feel a bit more relaxed. You slowly start to think about what you are saying, realizing that what you are worrying about sounds fictitious and not worth worrying over.
Sometimes, when you speak the questions that fill your head, you get more panicked. Your friend, the one who is listening to you, continues to calm you down by trying to clear the random thoughts in your head. Your friend continues to tell you not to worry, breathe and relax. Just hearing your friend trying to help you calm down helps. The thoughts in your head start to slow down and vanish, even the ones that you can't answer are slipping away. The calmer your breathing, the less the voice in your head speaks.
When someone has an anxiety attack, it is always best to be by that person and hear them out. You are the voice of reason in this situation and the only one at that moment who can help heal the other by your kind and supporting words. Calm their breathing, always tell them that you are here and you won't leave until the anxiety attack fades. Be the one to clear those shadows from the clouds of thought away from your friend and allow some light to shine on them instead.
There are times when you are alone and you have to calm yourself from an anxiety attack. You constantly have to tell yourself to "breathe slowly", "calm down", "focus" and "relax". Breath is the horse, mind is the rider. If the breath is out of control the rider gets thrown off. Once calm, the ride becomes smoother and balanced.
artwork © 2014 Alex Cockburn
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After being hospitalized this week for a severe panic attack related to my generalized anxiety disorder, just having people around you that listen to you and just stay with you to comfort you is always the best thing they can do to help.
They can't always make your anxiety go away all by magic, but at least they can calm you down and make you seek help so you can manage and beat these attacks. It's a long and difficult road to take, but at least you're not alone and can count on those persons to support you through all this process.
They can't always make your anxiety go away all by magic, but at least they can calm you down and make you seek help so you can manage and beat these attacks. It's a long and difficult road to take, but at least you're not alone and can count on those persons to support you through all this process.
Wow, simply amazing!!! Really love the artwork as well as a pin point accuracy on anxiety. I deal with that almost on a daily basis, some days not as bad as others. The worse kind, is when Im in a relationship, never sure if I will be abandoned, lied, or cheated on. I do hope to find that someone special one day, as well as we all find that special someone. Thank you so much for bringing such a positive spin on such a crippling feeling that many share!
Just throwing this out there for those times when having a friend isn't enough-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognit.....vioral_therapy
Everyone is different, but a lot of the time anxiety (the kind doctors diagnose and give pills for) cannot be solved by friends alone. I've been trying to help my husband for years and while I can make him feel better about a thing for a little while, the disease is defined by an inability to be logical about your worries in the longterm. Often it's because we learn coping mechanisms as children that are inappropriate to use as adults, like from bullying or other traumatic experiences.
There IS hope. CBT will help you take control over your life by teaching you new, better skills so you can be happy on all your own. You don't even need pills sometimes (which is worth mentioning because it's really hard to get a person whose problem is panicking over everything to take something that has side effects).
Thanks for this PSA, if even one person sees it and feels better it's worth it!
Everyone is different, but a lot of the time anxiety (the kind doctors diagnose and give pills for) cannot be solved by friends alone. I've been trying to help my husband for years and while I can make him feel better about a thing for a little while, the disease is defined by an inability to be logical about your worries in the longterm. Often it's because we learn coping mechanisms as children that are inappropriate to use as adults, like from bullying or other traumatic experiences.
There IS hope. CBT will help you take control over your life by teaching you new, better skills so you can be happy on all your own. You don't even need pills sometimes (which is worth mentioning because it's really hard to get a person whose problem is panicking over everything to take something that has side effects).
Thanks for this PSA, if even one person sees it and feels better it's worth it!
This picture could not have come at a better time.
Sorta new to the whole anxiety thing because I tripped a panic attack 3 months ago from smoking too much pot. Haven't been able to get rid of the anxiety or panic attacks since but have been making slow progress.
This picture just totally puts a smile on my face. Thank you.
Sorta new to the whole anxiety thing because I tripped a panic attack 3 months ago from smoking too much pot. Haven't been able to get rid of the anxiety or panic attacks since but have been making slow progress.
This picture just totally puts a smile on my face. Thank you.
It is b-both >////<. I-I'm shy as w-well as a person th-that suffers f-from very bad social a-anxiety. I st-stutter horribly wh-when others try to talk t-to me, a-and if it g-gets really b-bad my t-teeth chatter. (It usually never reaches this point, as I've shy'd myself away from the conversation or outright made an excuse to get away >////<)
I want to share this with my brother as we both suffer it, Its hard for us to make friends and not sure if we got it due to the way we were raised or just...born with it. I use to have that secure feeling of comfort the person to be there but until that started to turn negative and cloud my mind with more racing thoughts...I really appreciate this piece and have made it my tablet's background so I feel a little at ease since I really don't vent or talk to friends when this sort of thing happens now.
Story of my life, right there... Try as I might, I can't help it when those clouds of anxiety float over my head. I get anxiety attacks fairly often, and stress messes with my head just as often. Good friends are nice to have, though, especially when they can help clear some of the mind clutter.
Nicely drawn, and a very sweet piece at that.
Nicely drawn, and a very sweet piece at that.
That's really true, and is a very touching and beautiful post.
But not everyone have that luck. Some people have to solve their own problems by their self.
Anyway have a friend who is by your side to support you is one of the greatest gifts you can have in the world out of anything else.
But not everyone have that luck. Some people have to solve their own problems by their self.
Anyway have a friend who is by your side to support you is one of the greatest gifts you can have in the world out of anything else.
Every day, until I decided to take a different path since 2017's New Year. Of course this picture reminds me of related stuff, but this one also motivates me to just ignore the thinking when it becomes to much, in a way of "Ah forget it, let's do this/just a bad idea because /specific reasons/." Not only thanks to the people around me, but also that I finally realized it, it really helps!
Thanks for sharing, really! :)
Thanks for sharing, really! :)
I started having anxiety fits 6 months ago after I quit smoking. Worst was insomnia, but that has passed and I had constant anxiety and depression, despite how much time has passed. I think smoking covered some existing mental problems (I like to bottle up bad feelings like a fckn terminator ).
It still feels weird. Best solution is developing discipline imo... despite doing a lot of things, and being good, I stopped.. first I cleaned my mind of unnecessary people and things. then cleaned my room (yeah, sounds silly). And then I cleaned up my life's problems one by one - debt, job, workouts. And it all started to go better. Describe it as getting free of shackles one by one. Imagine you are slave or a magician in chains underwater.. and you are freeing yourself.
I am now feeling very good most of time and neutral other half. It took a lot of sacrifices, but it became much better than before. Motivational speeches about discipline from people like Arnold Schwarzenegger helped me alot.
It still feels weird. Best solution is developing discipline imo... despite doing a lot of things, and being good, I stopped.. first I cleaned my mind of unnecessary people and things. then cleaned my room (yeah, sounds silly). And then I cleaned up my life's problems one by one - debt, job, workouts. And it all started to go better. Describe it as getting free of shackles one by one. Imagine you are slave or a magician in chains underwater.. and you are freeing yourself.
I am now feeling very good most of time and neutral other half. It took a lot of sacrifices, but it became much better than before. Motivational speeches about discipline from people like Arnold Schwarzenegger helped me alot.
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