#anxiety journal

[ecila-is-here]

I've decide to begin an anxiety journal where I put my up and down. I hope it'll make everything clearer because I don't know what I feel half the time except that I'm not feeling well.

And that suck

[externalmemorycomic]

(If you wanna read more comics, I’ve posted over 400(!!!!) of them on my patreon where you can read daily comics for just 3€ a month! I use my patreon income for bills and stuff and any contribution makes a really big difference. Check out the link in my pinned post if you want to join!)

[introvertedfitnessinstructor]

10 Ways To Come Out of Your Shell As an Anxious Introvert

Being our introverted selves has shielded us from all kinds of unpleasant situations and people in life. In no way do we ever want to change and become extroverted. Or even ambivert. We love our quiet time and we love to keep ourselves grounded.

But from time to time, some of us anxious introverts have FOMO...Read More

[holycowomgitsjenn]

This is personal anxiety journaling.

---- A response to the text message my MIL sent to my husband ---

No. I'm not going to say thank you for coming and getting this stupid fucking rock out of our back yard.

1. It's been sitting on the back yard for a fucking year now because you wouldn't make a plan and get it done. I could have just had Sam take it out when he was doing the initial work, along with the rail road ties that are rebarred into the ground, but you insisted you wanted the shit and you'd take care of it.

1.5. maybe you should thank your son for telling me to not call Sam and just take care of it...

2. You came into our house without telling us. Full stop.

3. You refuse to acknowledge that coming into our home without our knowledge is wrong.

4. Tim pulled a muscle in his chest. Derek fucked up his back, and DJ said he felt like shit when he was leaving the house. YOU JUST HAD HAND SURGERY and you openly admitted that you had to take muscle relaxers the whole day just to get through this process. And you were driving.

5. Again with Sam. He would have done this for $500, including getting the other shit out of my back yard. Instead you spend... $60 on a trailer and drove 120+ miles back and forth in your Tahoe towing literally tons of rock. So you spent... Probably $200, had 4 people hurt themselves in the process, and when it's all said and done I'm gonna call Sam and pay him to take the ties and the rest the rock you swore you wanted but is still back there....

For myself:

Have a conversation with husband before MIL

Set bounderies both of us will agree on

Have a conversation with MIL to establish boundries

[philosophybits]

Most people think, speak, and write in the way they sleep, eat, and drink — with no question ever arising of their relation to the idea. It happens with very few, and then this decisive moment has either an extraordinary propulsive power (the genius) or through anxiety it paralyses the individual (irony).

Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers

[selkra-souza]

I can’t wait to see her redemption ark

[troubledminnesotan]

Journal comics- social anxiety is fun

[psychhound]

[ID: a banner for a game. it is light tan with a crumpled paper texture, and reads "with breath & sword" in large blue font, and "a solo-journaling game that helps you fight anxiety as you fight monster" below it in smaller font. there is lineart of gauntlets lying over a sword with some flowers at the bottom. end ID]

You find yourself tied to the monsters. The scratchy feeling in your chest. The way your hands tremble. The sweat that dots your upper lip when your senses are telling you a monster is close, again, now, and it’s your job to fight it. To stand up for your ideals and stand up to the threat. Whether you tame it, or this is truly a monster that needs to be slain, only time will tell.

 You know you will succeed. You always have before. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be a challenge.

 Grab your gear. Put on your boots. You know how to find it. You know what to do.

 First, you just need to steady yourself.

[ID: a page spread from the game. it shows "step four" on one side, which goes over the five aspects of the game's oracle. on the other side it shows the first oracle component, where something you can taste determines what your heroic core is. the page is minimally designed, with a blue border and text on a white background, tan accents, and one image of a dragon. end ID]

With Breath & Sword is a solo-journaling TTRPG to help players combat anxiety. 

In the game, you play as a monster-fighter, who is being summoned once again due to the presence of a new monster. Each time a monster appears, you struggle with the emotional effects of the magic: effects that look a lot like anxiety. You must steady yourself before you go off to fight: in the game and in real life.

Over the course of WB&S, players will participate in grounding methods and breathing techniques to calm themselves from an anxiety attack. These methods also serve as the game's oracle in order to determine how the story goes. 

What You'll Need:

A safe space to play 

A method of writing or recording

[ID: a page spread from the game. it is the section called "the science" and goes over the psychology behind the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, the 4-7-8 breathing method, and destroying journaling. it has a few lines about narrative and play therapy, and that the creator of the game used these methods in his social work with neurodivergent teens and adults. end ID]

check out the game on itch now!!

[lottiestudying]

01.09.2024—happy September!! August was hard, I hope September brings me nicer things. some self care snaps from over the weekend 💐🌿🌞✨🤍

[phoebe-the-autism-fairy]

Pro tip

Journals are supposed to be messy. Don't pay attention to the "bullet journal girlies" on your social media and their neat little to-do lists and the things they're grateful for. Cause at the end of the day I wouldn't have the energy or the neurotypical-ness to keep up to date with bullet journaling. Just grab ya notebook and write whatever you feel. Talk about your feelings, both the beautiful and the ugly ones. Scribble in it. Doodle in it. Vent in it. Write cringey poetry. Write stories. Release your inner Regina George on that bitch. You don't need to make it fancy, your journal can be your best friend if you just let it.

[ari-grace-the-space-case]

Journal Comic 11.12.2023

[schuylerpeck]

no, no one could ever accuse you of taking things too easy. I'm not saying it to be cute. you have to know by now, the way you run yourself into the ground. living so cautiously, as if not to leave your own footprints in the snow. I wonder if you've ever allowed yourself the comfort of curling into your own arms at the end of a well-worked day, never mind the idea of accepting your own embrace any given day at all.

I wish someone would have told you sooner, that things can be sweet without the sweat of deserving it. that it isn't selfish to enjoy. that basking in something doesn't mean you're any closer to losing it. a good job, a good friend, a good love enters your life and soon you'll wonder what you can do to earn what you now already have.

I've felt it, the way the bed shifts when you've finally fallen asleep. muscles so tangled and mind so busy, that even in the space you charade rest, there's still something braced. something that only lets go when sleep forces a knuckle unfurled; the weight of all your knots relaxing.

it doesn't matter how this winding was born; if reason or excuse sits more comfortably on your tongue. I worry about how long a star can sustain imploding; wonder with every year of steeled lungs, you're wiping away another tally mark at the end of the line. would it scare you, if I said there is no collapse in easing your shoulders back? that you have kept watch for such a long time, what's rung all the alarms has long since gone. if I told you there was no danger in closing your eyes right here. would you believe me?

[neurodivergenttales]

I’m tired of being tired, I’m tired of living, I’m tired of looking out of the window and being terrified of the outside world and the people in it

I’m chronically overwhelmed even though I just spend most of my time rotting I’m my room

Something has to give but I’m just slowly breaking

[sparklemaia]

if you’re kaiser and you’re reading this, DON’T YOU DARE RESCHEDULE ME AGAIN my lungs can’t take it, thanks

[the---hermit]

To do list to stop the procrastination anxiety:

Book dentist appointment

Email b&b for weekend trip with mom

For the love of the gods clean the garden of all the weeds that have grown in the past few weeks

Text tattoo artist to get appointment

Find the courage to check if there's revelent infos for this year's uni classes and at least get an idea of when classes start

Reorganize bookshelves

[kafkasapartment]

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

Joan Didion.