what we use to enjoy before anxiety

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Hi mate

I used to love the atmosphere when you get up on a cold morning. When it's misty and you can smell the fresh air.

Chris x

I used to love Christmas. Oh wait...I still do! I'm a kid at Christmas. A 34 year old kid, that is! I watch Christmas movies all year 'round! The spirit never fades in me!

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I used to love going to the theatre. Last year I was going at least once a month, this year I've only managed to go a couple of times. Can't wait to start feeling a bit better and calmer so I can get booking again! Nothing beats watching a live performance :)

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Hi Chrissy

I love all sorts. Plays, musicals, ballet, opera...the whole caboodle really :) I haven't seen Miss Saigon but I know it's supposed to be very good. I'd love to see something in the West End.

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I think Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is one of the best things I've ever seen at the theatre...it's stunning and so moving.

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Hi all

The best thing I ever saw at the theatre was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I know it's not quite Tchaikowski but I enjoyed it :)

I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl's books are brilliant! I haven't seen it at the theatre though...bet the special effects were impressive :)

Hi Squatbetty

I was only about 8 at the time but I remember it being a really happy experience :)

Chris x

Hi Chris

It used to be such a treat to go to the theatre when I was a kid...I used to get dead giddy and excited. I think I still do :)

Sometimes I think I've lost the ability to separate the feeling you get from a good adrenaline rush (from doing something you enjoy) from a panicky, anxious adrenaline rush (which can come on for no good reason sometimes). I think that may be part of my problem at the moment. Does that make sense?

Hi Squatbetty

I understand that completely. I have often felt that since my anxiety came on, all my emotions went out the window and everything - excitement, happiness, anticipation, etc - all got replaced by varying degrees of anxiety.

Chris x

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I used to enjoy karate and football
Although i'm a girl i never cared though haha

Also used to enjoy just going for a steady walk to the shop. Little things i miss but am trying to get back :D:D

What's your favourite team? Mine's Plymouth Argyle, they're doing OK. Or did you actually used to play? I did, only 6-a-side, 11-a-side was too much for me. Even at 6-a-side I was a striker but it was a real struggle to make the breakthrough to score a goal. Lucky we have a footie fan on the site.

Before anxiety, I used to enjoy being me!

We can all enjoy life again. OK, my old school-friends have moved away and/or got married, bar one who I still play snooker/golf & enjoy a pint with. I'll probably never see a lot of my old friends again. But it's all in the past, it's about acceptance like Bluebell said. Wipe the slate clean on life. Accept the fact that happy days before anxiety struck have gone, but happy days could come around again. Don't even think about what you used to enjoy before anxiety!

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my life hasnt changed, maybe because ive had it since i can remember, but tlking of roal dahl, anyone remember "fantastic mr fox"? got it read to us in primary school, great book very sad ending (animals of farthing wood sorta style...)(go on go watch the intro on you tube now...you know you want to, dah-dah-dah daaaa, da-da-da-daaaa....) iron man book was good too....hated the twits way too much of a kids book, good/evil, too old school...

I've just spent ages writing the longest post I've ever written, took ages, I go to post it and I'm disconnected, it didn't post. :mad:

That's happened to me a couple of times...very annoying! I always highlight my post and copy it to the clipboard before I press "submit reply" now, just in case there's a problem. Sly! ;)

I can't write it again now, because I've been out playing snooker & drinking, so I'm a bit tired. I was writing about how either anxiety can destroy you completely (there was a real danger of me drinking myself to death/killing myself), or you can use your inner strength to overcome anxiety, say 'No, you are not going to defeat me, I'm going to live a life', & you come out stronger than if you never had anxiety in the first place.

Luckily for me, I'm looking forward to leading a better life than one in which I never had anxiety in the first place!

It still hurts badly that I had anxiety & I really didn't want to have to find an inner strength that I never knew I had to overcome it, but nothing can change the fact. I went on about the ordeal I suffered, but that's irrevelant now. The only thing I can do is plan for the future, take advantage of opportunities which I never would've done otherwise.

I would've liked to have had a normal life, get married & all that, but I just can't anymore, I've just got to learn a new language, go abroad, stuff like that.

Uh, oh, I'm going on now, it's just that I heard that if you do overcome anxiety you end up stronger than ever, & it's true. But, I still feel terrible now!!

Hi Chris

You CAN still have a normal life. You're young, you are only in your thirties (maybe I consider that young because I'm in my thirties too ;) ). It's never too late to get married if that's what you want.

Thanks for the reply Squatbetty. Before I had anxiety, I remember that I always wanted to get married. I remember when I was 21-years-old, I found it difficult with women, finding a woman that I could develop a relationship with, maybe get married one day. I spoke to one of my friends about it (I was out for a few beers with him & other friends). I said 'I don't want to be alone for the rest of my life', & he said 'Don't worry, you'll always have mates', & I said 'No, I mean I don't want to not be able to find a woman never to get married to'. He said, pointing to other friends 'Don't worry, you're more likely to get married than the rest of us', & that reassured me.

But, it's different now. I was happy when I was 21-years-old, & it makes me sad that I can't be 21-years-old again.

Anyway, I almost got there with a woman, we had a great relationship for 7 months when I was 21/22 years old. But, it all ended. We had an argument. She threw me out of her flat in Exeter, that was it.

It's not only that I don't want to get married anymore & lead a normal life, it's literally a case that I can't! With the way I suffered anxiety/depression it's impossible. It's either going to eat at me, make me drink to much stay in bed/give up work, or I can go completely the other way, stay single, look for opportunities in working abroad eg. cruise liners. You can do that.

I wanted that when I was 21-years-old, to be like everyone else, but I can't now. I feel terrible.

going into town and i use to enjoy going out to college.

Susie

Hi Squatbatty,

i hope I feel calmer and alot better in the new year because i have lost interest in lot of things since i had dizzy spells alot. I feel .sexual dyfuntional and depressed really.

Susie

merry christmas all (i feel like im gunna have an attack/i feel so dodgy lol)
and happy new year