anxiety lecture

There was a brown bag at school today on anxiety, and it's cousin stress. I'm anxious.

Shocked, huh? I'm not.

My mom called me a worry wort. For example. I had blood work on Friday morning. The doctors office didn't call yet. It's Wednesday after noon. I'm going back and forth between "no news is good news" and "I have some horrible disease". Which disease depends on what is being talked about or advertised. Generally cancer. Often diabetes. Sometimes even MS.

What I did discover, going thru the 10 levels of anxiety, is what type of anxious I am.  We had to mark down from 1-10 what we were after he covered each section. Somatic, emotional, behavioral were all 8's. Interpersonal was 6, and spiritual was 3. The biggie? Cognitive. It was a 10. Okay it would have been a 15 had there been a choice.

Cognitive is the one where you say to yourself, "I shouldn't be eating this whole bag of chips (smoking, shopping....)" and then continue to do it.

There is a reason this fat girl is still fat, and needs to keep walkin’.