#anxiety support

[positivelypresent]

If you’re feeling anxious, some of these might help!

#anxiety support #generalized anxiety disorder #anxious #anxiety #anxiety help #mental wellbeing #mental health #positivelypresent

[justseveralowls]

Message of the day:

You do not need to be beautiful to justify your existence, you do not need to productive to justify your existence, you do not need to be useful to justify your existence. You are allowed to just be, you deserve to take up space and experience the world, no strings attached.

You are valuable just as you are in this moment, and you always have been, you do not need to prove your worth or perform a role to exist in this world. You are you, you are human, and that is enough.

#rsd #self love #self worth #self esteem #healing #growth #mental health #support #message of the day #anxiety support #trauma recovery #You are enough #spoonie support #positivity #gentle reminders #mine #self empowerment #you are lovable #you are valid #you are worthy #you are not alone #help #recovery journey #recovery

[sugarhai]

being spooky eases my anxiety

calming coloring pages & supportive wallpaper sets

#anxious artist #anxiety support #anxiety relief #pastel goth #artists on tumblr #spooky cute #spooky season #creepy kawaii #kawaii art #creepy cute

[sub-at-omicsteminist]

🍃As we approach the new year and everyone is making resolutions and plans, I really want to share two apps that have helped me with my mental health ,because they might help you too.🍃

Finch

I absolutely adore this app, it lets me set realistic goals for myself while I raise my little bird and use the “rainbow stones” that are earned by completing activities to create what I find to be a safe environment for the bird. It also has soundscapes, timers, breathing exercises, wind down stretches and a few other things that help anxiety. You can also connect to friends with it and send them “vibes” to let them know you’re always there and it’s just a very sweet app.

Calm Harm

Now this one was recommended to me by my therapist and I haven’t had it long but it has really helped. It is an app for preventing self harm, I use it whenever I feel like I’m going to and it gives me small activities to choose from instead and breathing exercises. It is hard to turn on the app sometimes but it’s helped enough times that I feel like it might help someone else.

#mental health #anxiety #depression #low mood #support #new years resolution #resources #meantal health support #SH #anxiety support #self harm support #You are not alone #2023

[cryinginmyroomsposts]

I suffer from the loneliness of deeply despising being misunderstood while I push away anyone who tries to understand me.

#cryinginmyroom #crying in my room again #anxiety things #anxious attachment #anxiety sucks #anxiety support #anxiety #social anxiety #depression hours #tw depression #depressing poem #depressing poems #kinda depressing #depression #girlblogging #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girlhood #gifted kid shit #gifted kid things #gifted kid burnout #trauma bonding #high school trauma #sad poem #ashinsmoke

[quinnmadclown]

Hospital friend 🐶 Everyone love him!

#dissociative identity disorder #mental health #dissociative system #plushes #plush animal #emotional support plush #border collie plush #plushies #anxiety #anxiety support

[littlemisshesitant]

about me

hello, my name is gillian.

a few months ago i set up an instagram account dedicated to sharing my journey with anxiety with the world. the beginning of 2023 has been a difficult one on my mental health and when i set up this instagram account, i had no idea whether it would be a positive thing for me or not, but i have enjoyed engaging with a wider community of people who have been or are going through something similar. not only has it helped me find new strategies to cope with my anxiety, it has also helped me feel less alone. and i guess that's one reason i wanted to set up the account...to prove to people that they are not alone and a lot more people face anxiety than perhaps what they realised. so, then i thought, why not set up a tumblr blog too!

i wanted my first post to be an introduction to me. and by me, i don't just mean my anxiety, but to the actual person i am...the things i like, don't like, my ambitions in life, etc. anxiety is a very big part of my life and despite how difficult it is for me to do so, i am trying to embrace it whilst not letting it define me. so, i'll get the bit about my anxiety out the way first, and then i will talk about gillian.

anxiety

my journey with anxiety probably began much earlier than what i even realised. from a young age, i have always been timid and have always preferred to keep myself to myself and my small circle of friends. i have always been approachable to others and for the most part well liked, but i had no desire to be popular or have a large friendship group. large groups of people overwhelm me and the kinds of kids who were part of the popular crowd were too loud and intimidating.

my anxiety as i know it now probably came to light in my mid-teens. between the years 2012 and 2014, i faced a lot of hardships both personally and within the family (think bereavements, parent mental health, financial difficulties, exam stresses etc), making them a difficult few years for myself and my family. things did begin to get better for us moving into 2015/2016, but i was very emotionally and mentally drained. my anxiety began manifesting socially at first, making it difficult for me to make plans with friends outside of school. it didn't help that one of my friends at the time would then use my social anxiety as a reason to not invite me out places which affected my self-esteem massively.

over a period of a few months during my a-levels, i felt so unlike myself and found things to be overwhelming most of the time. there were many days where all i wanted to do was cry but for the most part kept it under bay because i felt like i was just being stupid. but then one day i ended up crying over smudging my mascara and confessed to my mam that i felt miserable most of the time and couldn't shake the feeling. with her encouragement, i went to speak with my gp, which is when anxiety was first used to describe what i was going through. it was an emotional appointment but it did help with offering me some relief.

me

as i mentioned at the beginning, my name is gillian. old fashioned, i know, but i'm named after my dad's late older sister so i think that makes it quite special. i am currently in my mid-twenties, and i'm very thankful to say i work in my dream job as an english teacher. to ge the job i have, i spent a total of 5 years at university - a 3 year bachelors degree, a 1 year teacher training course, and a 1 year masters degree. teaching has been a dream of mine since being very young and i've worked really hard to get to where i am. i'm not talking just physically but also mentally too. i quite often ask myself how i managed to become a teacher but i am trying to train myself out of thinking that...i wouldn't have gotten here if i wasn't good enough!

away from teaching, i'm one of them weird people who will tell you i am massively introverted but will regularly be seen out and about socialising. don't be fooled by this, all of my socialising is done with the same handful of people. i am very comfortable with the friends i have in my life and prefer not to have a massive friendship group and the friends i have are either slightly more extroverted than me or at a similar level of introversion as me. i need them all for different reasons i suppose...eg i have one particularly extroverted friend who has massively helped my confidence in social situations but i have one particularly introverted friend i am probably more extroverted than who is helping me to build confidence in my ability to guide and support others if that makes sense.

a large part of my socialising is actually done with my family, who i am very close to. my family consists of my parents, my two brothers (one older, one younger) and, of course, my two cats - mr. miyagi and nala, who are my two pride and joys. we do things like friday night tv show binge and saturday night film night but have a lot of other family traditions that mean a lot to all of us, perhaps more so now that my brothers and i are all adults (currently we are aged 30, 25, and 23). my mam and i are particularly close, i think on the basis that i am her only daughter, but because we genuinely get on too. she is somebody who understands me better than anyone and i am so thankful to her because she has helped me through so much, and continues to do so day-in-day-out.

i'm sure as this blog continues, you will find out more and more about me, but i'll leave it with this for now. i want this blog to be a safe space for anyone who visits. feel free to ask me questions, respond to my posts, and reach out if you need. sending love!

#about me #mental health #mental health awareness #mental health support #anxiety #anxiety awareness #anxiety support #emotional health #emotional health awareness #emotional health support

[dariakea]

#positive thinking #mental health #mental heath support #depression #anxienty #art #digital artist #therapy #anxiety support

[positivelypresent]

Anxious or worried? Try asking yourself these questions!

#anxiety support #anxiety help #anxious #anxiety #worried #worry #generalized anxiety disorder #positivelypresent

[justseveralowls]

Message of the day:

You can get through this.

This task in front of you may be big and seem overwhelming. But it can be done, this roadblock or hardship may be slow or grueling but are not in this alone. Take a breath, give yourself a moment to rest and remember that your resilience is incredible. Remember the tasks that once seemed Herculean that you can now repeat with ease. You are stronger than your fears and worth more than you can imagine

#mental health #recovery #mental health support #self care #self love #mine #anxiety #mental illness support #self acceptance #coping #anxiety support #radical acceptance #self confidence #message of the day

[b-courageous1010]

Sometimes I get so caught up and dwell on the times I let my anxious thoughts get the best of me that I neglect the progress I’ve made.

For example, lately when I see an Angel number I’ll log it in my journal and I’ll also write my thoughts and actions at that moment.

For the anxious thoughts I noticed I started including a bullet point of a positive thought to counteract it without out even thinking about it. It made me realized that I have made progress and I am implementing what I learned. Things are getting better!

I can be so hard on myself sometimes and im working on feeling less guilty when my anxious thoughts get the best of me.

I’m human and I’m doing the best I can ❤️‍🩹

#anxiety support #me to me #talking to myself

[sugarhai]

astronarwhal

#artists on tumblr #cute #kawaii #sugarhai #kawaii art #supportive #anxiety support #anxiety awareness #narwhals

[godsg111rl]

y’all, my crippling anxiety has evolved. it no longer tortures me in my waking life but has graduated to haunting me in my dreams (or should I say nightmares instead).

#now I’m up at 1 AM #shook #and too scared to go back to sleep #y’all won #🥹 #your girl be lucid dreaming her ass off #anxiety support

[cryinginmyroomsposts]

I don’t really get the people who tell me to not “overshare” my trauma to everyone because I need to “protect” myself… because all I know is me being honest and open has saved atleast 5 people and has changed several others around me into thinking before saying something. So yeah I’m going to tell everyone abt the horrors I’ve faced, in the hopes that atleast one of them will know not to unintentionally hurt another person and atleast one of them will feel less lonely.

#high school trauma #trauma bonding #anxiety #anxiety support #tw depression #talk about your trauma #bullying #cryinginmyroom #crying in my room again #rambles of a girl #I will always talk about the hard stuff #correct people when they’re wrong #don’t joke about sensitive things #I wear my bruised heart on my sleeve #protect my peace #anxiety spiral

[livingwithbpd92]

Scars we carry

Carry with memories, memories burned by the dark

Try to see clearly

Tears we bury

Bury in vain cause the pain got us falling apart

Try to see clearly

Now let the healing start

The fires out of guns

We keep it in our hearts

We're like a thousand suns

Ooh, yeah, every day, step by step, we dare to love again

And if we lose our grip, meet you at the end

Know they're cutting you deep

Feel the scars in your sleep

What didn't kill us made us stronger

Stories left on our skin

Wear them with everything

What didn't kill us made us stronger

#male depression #borderline personality disorder #being borderline #living with borderline #depressing quotes #bpd #depression support #mentalhealth #mentalillness #quotes #anxiety support #anxiety #eupdawareness #eupd #bpd thoughts #bpd sucks #living with bpd #bpd stuff #depression #self harm #cutting #bi polar

[serenivibe]

Learn how to use breathing exercises to decrease your anxiety! ❤️ One of the most essential components of life, and something we often take for granted is breathing. During breathing, your heart rate increases when you breath inward, and slows when you breath outward. Diaphragmatic breathing can reduce anxiety! Visit www.SereniVibe.life for more information on breathing exercises for anxiety <3

#mental health matters #mental health awareness month #mental health #endthestigma #end the stigma #personal growth #selfcarematters #self care #anxiety awareness #anxiety support #anxiety recovery #anxiety #anxiety relief #mindfulness #mindfulliving #meditation #breathing #breathwork #breathing exercises #self growth #self love #mental health awareness