Oh, you poor thing. Are you finding ways to cope with your anxiety? I gather you must have explored various options, right?

There are SO many strategies and other things out there. I hope you are being helped. Being anxious all the time is NOT fun.

I can only imagine. Daniella, do you have any fun hobbies that you like to do?

Thank you Melody. Sorry again about the other response. For my anxiety I have tried so much. 12 years of therapy of different forms such as CBT,biofeedback,etc. So many anti anxiety,depression,sleep meds have been tried. The anxiety impacts my life a lot. At the moment it is very bad again but has been worse. I am looking more into naturopathic/holistic again since regular treatments don't seem to help much. Though I have never been big on that type of treatment.
I need to find some hobbies with my limitations. That is a good idea. What are your hobbies? I know baking muffins
Lastly I did not mean to make it sound like anxiety is causing your friends symptoms. I don't know and would not say that to a person who described those symptoms. You never know and I would hate to brush something off as anxiety and it be something medical that was serious. I can just remember for myself when I was having this chest pressure and breathing issue. It was a real physical symptom but I would get so anxious about it that I would add more physical pain to it. Like a vicious cycle.
Wishing you a good day

Daniella. She's not my friend. I have not even met that person and we only were on the phone that one time. But I told my friend Steven that I would ask the people on Neurotalks and that' s why I posted my question.

Now you ask about my hobbies.

Daniella, when you get to the end of this post, click on the link that is under my signature.

You will THEN see what hobby has changed my life. The most peaceful, calm and joyous thing one can do for oneself. It's cheap, it's nutritious (probably the most densely nutritious hobby one can do), and most of all it's fun.

So click on the link and see what Sprout Lady does for a hobby

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That is neat. What do you do with them? Place in salads? I am not sure how ezekiel bread products are made but they are sprouted wheat. I eat there products a lot.

I eat my sprouts on my breakfast sandwich. I bring a little tub of sprouts and I dump them on my breakfast sandwich (I meet up with friends every morning at our local breakfast cafe). They are so used to me bringing my sprouts, no one even looks anymore. At first, it was all ooooohhh and aaahhhh, what are those?

But most people would rather dig into bacon and eggs, pancakes with bacon and syrup and home fries, than they WOULD EVER DECIDE THAT SPROUTING IS HEALTHY FOR THEM.

It's very hard to change one's eating habits after all the years of eating a certain way. But for me it saved my life and my sanity and my blood pressure and everything else.

Daniella, look up benefits of sprouting. See if you might like to do it. It's cheap, and it's fun. And I do EVERYTHING with these things.

I even grow my own bean sprouts. The things you can do with them is amazing.

And because they are all grown on my kitchen shelf with no preservatives, no pesticides no nothing, and because they are a LIVE food, well they contain enzymes that go into the gut, help with the immune system, and are just plain good and good for you.

Try and find the video of my sprout tuna salad. The colors alone will amaze you. I buy Wild Planet tuna which has the lowest mercury of any canned tuna.

Fabulous and full of protein.

But then again, I'm a big salad person. I don't imagine if a person has never liked eating salads that they are going to go "Aha, I am not going to sprout".

Not gonna happen.

We have to change our brain, one step at a time.

I will share one thing with you.

Because we are having a difficult time with our son and when one has to deal with situations which one has no control over, whenever I am stressed, I walk over to my sprout shelf with all my trays of green broccoli sprouts and green radish sprouts, and green EVERYTHING, and I look at them growing high towards the sun light gently streaming through my window (I also use a lamp for greening them up), but when I just walk over to my sprout shelves, I look at my sprouts and I imagine them going into my body and going into my cells and keeping me ALIVE, and nothing beats that feeling.

When you have anxiety and no meds work, and you really want to FEEL GOOD, you have to get everything working in your body. The body is really an amazing production factory, because food goes in, your body absorbs it, your digestive process functions and all toxins come out the other end.

So if one has a working, functioning digestive system, when one puts GOOD things in the body, the body will absorb what it needs to absorb, and the body can then maintain optimum health.

Now that doesn't happen with everybody because of auto immune stuff and other stuff going on.

But when one doesn't smoke, doesn't drink to excess, doesn't put fake food into one's body, doesn't put any artificial sweetners, etc.etc, well, in MY case, my body said

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I mean, I used to be a 300 lb woman who got around with a cane.

I am now a sprouter.

And look up the benefits of broccoli sprouts on youtube. That alone will make you start eating broccoli sprouts.

But when you sprout them yourself, you save a lot of money and you have a hobby that sustains your body AS WELL AS YOUR SOUL.

But this would apply to any hobby. Anything that gives you joy in life, you have to go and find it. For me, that was sprouting.

We all have to find our joy.

Take care,

Melody