I chose this segment as this very thing happened to me.
Week #3 – Question Segment:
Here are a few coping statements, do you agree or disagree? Even if your answer is yes or no, please explain:
- This situation of sitting on a fully packed train either makes you feel uncomfortable or unpleasant, but I can accept it? I was extremely uncomfortable having agreed to ride on the train to meet my friend who was in North Jersey whereas I was located in South Jersey. By car, it is about 3 hours or less, but with 3 changes of trains and my terrible anxiety, it was taking me longer. Driving would have been more anxiety for me than this.
- Can I ride out the wave of anxiety, or do I feel like I need professional help now? I was panicking and I kept telling myself that if I freak out and they take me to the hospital my family wouldn’t know where I was. So I tried deep-breathing and telling myself over and over that I was OK and that I could do this.
- Do you practice coping skills? If so, what works best for you? I really don’t have coping skills unless you consider deep-breathing and talking to myself over and over a coping skill.
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Beckie Wrote:
June 19, 2019, Week #3 – “Working on Us” – A Mental Health Questionaire, Plus a Photo Prompt – You Decide
🌻RULES:
Each week I will ask a question or questions pertaining to mental health and add a photo prompt. Your job, if you so choose to join along, is to write a post on your own blog, and creating a ping-back to the original post.
🌻It is up to you the reader to decide how you want to answer questions and/or photo prompt. If you want to write a non-fictional or fictional piece, poetry, whatever… Whatever you choose to do, I will, therefore, reblog what you have written. This is one way to not only promote your site but also spread awareness to all things mental health related. 🌻
As an added bonus… Since there are so many different mental health illnesses/disorders, YOU, the blogger can send me a comment as to what you would like to be the next question (s), and they will be addressed in future posts.
🌻What is the reason behind the “Mental Health Prompts of “Working on Us” (?) It’s fairly simple actually. I’d like this series to be an all-inclusive mental health community blog in order to be a source of more support towards one another. Idea’s, suggestions, and advice can be shared amongst the group.🌻
So, Are We Ready for Week# 3? I am going to start with two prompts. You can pick one or both, and again, you can choose how you want this to be written. Don’t forget to create a pingback to the original post, this way I can share with more people within the mental health community, as well as promote your blog site!
Week #3 – Question Segment:
Here are a few coping statements, do you agree or disagree? Even if your answer is yes or no, please explain:
- This situation of sitting on a fully packed train either makes you feel uncomfortable or unpleasant, but I can accept it?
- Can I ride out the wave of anxiety, or do I feel like I need professional help now?
- Do you practice coping skills? If so, what works best for you?
Week #3 – Photo Prompt: What does this picture signify or evoke in you? (Again, you can write however you see fit).
Photo Credit: Pinterest
Now, remember to create a pingback on your own blog. If you are having difficulties with pingbacks, copy your title and enter it in the comment section of this post.
I sincerely look forward to your responses and remember, there are no right or wrong answers. Plus, as a bonus, I will reblog whatever it is you submit, this way your blog gets more attention as well.
Thank you in advance,
Beckie 🌻
PS… Please Reblog This Post So Many More Can Join In! Thank You!
Hello, Tessa. The anxiety you experience when traveling is something I can relate too as well. BEin from Jersey myself, Everywhere seems like a long drive, even by way of a train.
Thank you, so very much for participating in Week #3, Prompt #1 “Working of Us”
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Another New Jerseyite. For such a small state it has roads that last forever. I hate highways, they really rev my anxiety up. I was meeting someone so I didn’t have to take the train any further than I did because he met me, but then I had to return the next day, the same route. I won’t be traveling by train again by myself. I had to change trains twice so I rode three different ones and had to watch that I took the right train or I would end up in New York or Washington DC. What a scary ride.
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I’ve done that before and can assure you, I was freaking out too! Not a pleasant trip or experience.
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It was horrible. I was in a constant state of anxiety and panic attacks. Deep breathing and talking to myself helped a little bit, but I won’t do it again.
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Reblogged this on Beckie's Mental Mess and commented:
REBLOG: Tessa of “Tessa Can Do It ~ Positivity Catching” Participated on Week # 3, Prompt #1 on the “Working on Us” series, regarding anxiety/coping skills.
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Thank you Beckie for the reblog.
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