I do not see a thread for this in the forums, so I will ask away in a new thread here.
So my anxiety comes in two parts. The first part of my anxiety, basically, is worrying. It comes and it goes, but usually over hypothetical situations. This drives me nuts and honestly makes up a good chunk of my anxiety. My mind can function when it worries, but very slowly as I have to then work it out and show myself that this possibility cannot happen because of this or that in my daily life. Because I am having to do this a lot of the time in my life, one of the things I've come to realize is that I have a need for stability in my mind. I will say that it feels so nice when my mind is silent and quiet.
I think this first part affects the second part of my anxiety, which deals with anxiety from being overstimulated. Now, if I must say, overstimulation for me occurs in social settings where I am working in collaboration with my classmates on understanding one thing. Or in new experiences. These are the two occasions in which I am afflicted by overstimulation, and personally I can be easily overwhelmed by information to the point of mentally shutting down in class or in the middle of the new experience. This causes worrying, aggravating the first part of my anxiety, and thus creates almost a feedback loop for me. And then I do more worrying or take longer to work through the new experience than actually doing it.
Therefore, I wish to ask the following question: How do you go through situations in which you are being bombarded with so much to deal with at once? And, how do you sort through all of the information / experience that is coming at you?
So my anxiety comes in two parts. The first part of my anxiety, basically, is worrying. It comes and it goes, but usually over hypothetical situations. This drives me nuts and honestly makes up a good chunk of my anxiety. My mind can function when it worries, but very slowly as I have to then work it out and show myself that this possibility cannot happen because of this or that in my daily life. Because I am having to do this a lot of the time in my life, one of the things I've come to realize is that I have a need for stability in my mind. I will say that it feels so nice when my mind is silent and quiet.
I think this first part affects the second part of my anxiety, which deals with anxiety from being overstimulated. Now, if I must say, overstimulation for me occurs in social settings where I am working in collaboration with my classmates on understanding one thing. Or in new experiences. These are the two occasions in which I am afflicted by overstimulation, and personally I can be easily overwhelmed by information to the point of mentally shutting down in class or in the middle of the new experience. This causes worrying, aggravating the first part of my anxiety, and thus creates almost a feedback loop for me. And then I do more worrying or take longer to work through the new experience than actually doing it.
Therefore, I wish to ask the following question: How do you go through situations in which you are being bombarded with so much to deal with at once? And, how do you sort through all of the information / experience that is coming at you?