kineticz
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Blinkyrocket said:I didn't think it was learned helplessness and I kept telling everyone who says I'm still anxious looking that I don't actually feel anxious, is it possible that in order to get over agoraphobia I buried my conscious FEELING of anxiety but that it's still there? That was a rhetorical question mostly but still.4peatssake said:That sounds more like anxiety not learned helplessness.Blinkyrocket said:Does wanting to be in control of everything (breathing, heart rate, etc.) count as learned helplessness? I've been unable to let go of control and actually get scared sometimes when I relax and feel like I'm not paying attention to my breathing so at any moment my heart could start pounding 160 bpm
With learned helplessness there is more an inclination not to have the energy to make an effort although one can suffer from both as well. The lack of energy is a form of giving up - futility, what's the use?
Regardless, its more important to assess symptoms and respond to them than know what they're called. I say this from my own experience having both spent too much time trying to figure stuff out without proper action and then on the flip side, too much time throwing spaghetti at the wall.
Once I settled into more of a balance, things got easier to access and address. It takes time and great effort because for the most part we are going against the grain and mindset of most of the world. It's an enormous shift in consciousness when taken fully.
Because I don't feel anxious, gosh dang it, no feeling of pounding heart or other things related to adrenaline.
In your picture you look slightly adrenaline/serotonin/low adrenals.