For me anxiety has been building. When I came across this article on ” 5 signs of an on coming anxiety storm”, I read it and wanted to share on it.
FIVE SIGNS OF AN ON COMING ANXIETY STORM :
1. Obsession, or an endless thought loop that leaves you exhausted
2. Avoidance, or ignoring what you need
3. Over planning, or trying to control the uncontrollable
4. Restlessness, or not being able to sleep
5. Traces of deteriorating physical health
When I was done reading the article I was kind of left feeling okay so now what. Right know all five things really apply to me. I feel like a hamster running around on a wheel. I am so focused on everything around me that is going wrong that it is building my anxiety. I have no control over these situations. Once again in order to lower the storm I need to get off of the hamster wheel. Come back to my center of what can I do to help me. This whole anxiety trap for me can be so frustrating because I am the fixer in life and am determined sometimes to fix everything even when I can’t.
LIVING IN HEALTH 
I wonder if it might help to have some sort of visual system to organize issues that you can do something about (and specific actions you can take) and things that you can’t control, and then refer back to that when the hamster wheel starts spinning.
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Thanks so much for those suggestions. My blogs this week seem to be focusing on anxiety and mania. I think it all has to do with the mindset I am in. Mania is starting to slow down now thank god. I am so glad that I have tools. Being human though half of the time I don’t start using the tools until I am already there instead of preventing it.
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