Yesterday, the anxiety support group explored a worksheet from MyleMarks to get a conversation going about our different anxiety triggers and our responses to them. The worksheet took a few long minutes for each of us to navigate, and it wasn’t an entirely plesant trip.
It is probably not a surprise to learn that some of us were asking ourselves “Oh, should I have been anxious about that too?” This was a source of a bit of humor. Trying to analyze our triggers pulled our triggers out of ourselves (a bit) and allowed us to look at them at arm’s length … not without any emotional link, but with a sense of some distance all the same.
The conversation got interesting as we began to share some of our ways of pushing back on triggers. We each seem to have our own set of tricks (or call them tools). But for some things there just were no quick fix tricks … money worries, drama in relationships, and just having too much to do that isn’t going well for us.
We agreed that trying to stop overthinking our worries a common problem, and that it helps to find distractions … like some of the humor on the Internet (yes, even TikTok folks).