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Ghost Writer
2016-11-03 08:33:50 (UTC)

Support In Recovery.

This week for mental health recovery group we needed to organise a support group day without our usual facilitator because that person is away on a training seminar and couldn't be there. Our usual support day for group was yesterday Wednesday but we organized it amongst ourselves to have it today Thursday. It started at ten or so this morning and finished at eight-thirty pm tonight. One support member and myself spent extra hours after group finished to talk through our anxiety issues and support each other as we both had an anxiety filled day today. What we both have in common with anxiety disorder is that it "appears and presents" itself without warning, and out of nowhere and with no external stimulus or triggers! OR we both experience environmental anxiety which is external trigger related. Today? We both experienced BOTH of these fuckers : out-of-nowhere and for-no-apparent-reason anxiety and trigger related anxiety. So we both needed the extra time together to get through the difficult patches and parted company when most of it was gone.
The domain park was brilliantly therapeutic with plenty of beautifully safe humans and dogs. We spent two one hour evening sessions over there feeling the anxiety as it came and went until it died down to mild and manageable then nothing at all. Such an interesting array of fellow beings and lovingly kept dogs. In fact, this helped me overcome the anxiety just as effectively as the natural space itself! Gratitude filled the place inside me where the anxiety once was.
Awesome support connection for the whole day.
I wish I could take a measuring tape to how much more of this stuff is left in me but that's not how it works. Measuring the progress is more important and experiencing less and less anxiety is better. And if that's not growth and healing then I don't know what is. My feet are sore from all the walking today, I am cold & tired yet I couldn't care less because I've recently experienced a very major breakthrough in the anxiety stakes.
Gnite it's 22:27.




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