hi everyone. i’m struggling with a problem that only i seem to have. i’m praying that someone reads this who can relate and can help me through my anxiety. Over the past few years i’ve developed severe anxiety when it comes to snow. Idk what happened that suddenly flipped a switch in my brain but any time there’s a snowstorm i lose it. I’ve had anxiety for at least 10 years now, i’m 24. It got really bad about 4 years ago and i think that’s when my brain suddenly found all new things to panic about. I live in the northeast US so in the winter we get a lot of snow, and with every storm my anxiety seems to get worse and worse. It all comes from feeling trapped. When it snows a lot obviously i can’t go out and drive in it, i can’t do things i want to do, i feel a complete loss of control. i worry that if there was an emergency i wouldn’t be able to get to a hospital, and the anxiety and panic attacks get so bad they literally feel like they won’t end until the storm is over, which sometimes can be days long. I’m trying to figure out ways of rationally thinking about the situation to realize i’m not actually trapped or in danger, but as we all know anxiety makes it hard to be logical. if anyone else experiences this please just let me know. even if you don’t have a way to make it better, just knowing someone could relate would help me more than anything. thanks in advance!!!!
Omg me too!! The EXACT same thing. And my girlfriend tries to assure me I'm not stuck, that she could get us out or that emergency services could get to us. But I still can't control the anxiety over it. It drives me nuts because I know I'm not being logical and still can't control it. You are definitely not alone. I have found that actually going out and driving myself, if even just around the neighborhood, helped a ton. Because then I was able to see that I COULD get out.
I am honestly so glad to know i’m not alone. No one else seems to understand how i feel about it and it’s so frustrating. But i like the suggestion about just driving through my neighborhood to get the crazy trapped thoughts out of my head. We have a big storm coming tomorrow so I’ll have to give that a try. Thank you for the reply ♥️
Hi I get a similar thing when on occasion my car breaks down I do feel trapped I live alone but the trapped feeling overwhelmed s me. I wish you good luck