how do you deal with anxiety if you cannot distract yourself anymore?

[Frem]

I can't chill out and instead I'm worrying about some in reality simple stuff that I will have to do/go through in the next few days. I just can't stop thinking about any of it, or I'm starting to worry about stuff I already have thought through completely and second guess myself or worry if anything I'm doing I'm doing right. In the end it ends up being a endless cycle which I don't know how to stop.
Usually I was just trying to distract myself because I knew that I'm just overthinking stuff which I cannot affect or I was underwhelmed to point where I just wanted to give up and dissociated but that doesn't work anymore. I simply don't know what I can do at this point and it pushes me back to thinking about ctb and giving up on any shreds of hope I have left.

 

[timf]

In general one tries to make the best plans they can. Knowing that our plans often fail, go wrong, or something out of the blue can mess things up, we usually develop a plan "B".

For example, if someone wants a particular job so bad, they can wind themselves up so tight that they blow the interview or else get hired in the expectation that what they want is an employee who will always be wound up tight.

Distraction can be a useful tactic to employ periodically. However, longer term one might want to work on cultivating, perhaps as a mental exercise, an analysis of considering what happens when things do not go as planned or anticipated. This may help to develop a option reflex that may allow a person to relax a little because they have already considered options.

 

[thenextstory]

Benzo prescription helps me