How can I accept fear and anxiety without feeling like I'm ignoring danger?

Accepting fear/anxiety

Now i know i need to accept when i feel anxiety or fear, ive been avoiding it or pushing it away.l, cause im afraid ir will take me and to be honest i cant really deal with fear. I noticed when i feel it a I say its okay, im feeling this but theres no danger and by this i pushing it away. But when theres is signs of an aczual danger i ho crazy. I try to push away the fear but it says that "there is a sign, we are in danger, are you crazy?" Ane i keep spinning. I heard alot about accepting thatbwe feel anxiety or fear but thats always makes me accept that theres a danger. Cause im accepting what i feeling but then my mind wants to know if theres a danger and im spinning over that, then i feel like i need to avoid it cause i cant handle... or if i say theres might be a danger or there is i go crazy... then i start to have the selfharm automative thoughts and in the panic i cant see that its ocd, im trying to say it but i feel like im lying, then everything feels true... i cant accept that i feel anxiety but its not a danger but even this you can see i start to rumminate over "okay i feel this but is there a problem? Yeah is see this this is a problem, im avoiding, i have to do something about it quickly, then i try to stop to not act based of fear but i feel bad cause im avoiding. I cant see the reality when i feel panic or afraid, even trying to see reality becomes compulsive. What im dealing with now is that i get hit by anxiety, i accept it and i get a feeling that but theres no fear and i get hit by this toxic good feeling like i avoided a danger and i dont like it cause that feeds the fear

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 42w ago

And in a way i dont want to get through panic and anxiety cause if a real problem happens ans i accept that it makes me feel panic and affraid then im putting myself into feeling more pain in the future, i will not sleep or eat and i will be miserable, and i dont want to let that happen, but with acceptance i feel like i need to let that happen, i need to accept i will not sleep, i will not eat well, i might even have to go to the doctor cause i will not be able to handle it, ans just puts me into this hopeless situation...

Username: Jazzyy Jazzyy

Date posted: 42w ago

I know exactly how you feel. I’m going through that right now. I woke up feeling a lot of panic. I feel like I have to avoid the feeling because I know there’s no danger but my mind just tells me something bad is happening or something’s gonna happen and then it’s like I try not to worry and then me try not to worry it makes me worry I’m gonna miss something if it does happen and it’s like really hard to do what they tell you to do because you’re your mind just keeps going back to square one

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 42w ago

I actually realized what im afraid of why im afraid of illnesses or emotions. Its because of losing control but the "let control go" method doesnt work, cause thats my problem, i dont want to give the control to anxiety, panic or some illness. Like when they say accept fear is there, some even say accept that it will affect your life, you wont sleep, you wont eat and you will be affected by it. Same with illnesses. And i hate that, and the solution isnt to give up control and give it to the illness and fear and accept that it will take you there, you cant do anything. Thats just not right, we still have control over what we do, panic, anxiety and illnesses doesnt have to dictate our life. And i hate this feeling, idk i will ask help for this cause im afraid its a bad trait but i dont want anything to dictate my life, that i have to live my life based on that... only God can do that to me but nothing else

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 42w ago

@PRIV8 Or maybe i have control issues idk...

Username: Ocd@2024Ocd@2024

Date posted: 42w ago

ocd don't come alone maybe you have something else, generalized ansiety disorder, panic attack could be a posibility or not. you need psychiatrist help, you will improve a lot.

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 42w ago

I think if you have ocd its normal that you have anxiety.... ocd js anxiety... and if anxiety is so high then you have panic too... so yeah

Username: anonymous314

Date posted: 1y ago

how to get better at acceptance

It literally feels so wrong. as if im doing something i’ve never done before. letting go feels so scary, it’s like my core fear is acceptance in itself. does anybody know what acceptance looks like? i’ve always been an anxious person so it feels like acceptance is just doing something so out of the blue, i feel physically incapable of it, like sometimes i start shivering. is there any hope for me?

Username: mantradragon

Date posted: 1y ago

Letting Myself Feel?

Hello! Now I'm trying to let all these thoughts come to my head and accept the anxiety that's coming with them without challenging them - just leaving then unanswered. But my head keeps telling me things like, 'but maybe that actually was a bad thing you did, and you're just trying to push it away' or 'you might still go to hell, because this might not be OCD but you just being a bad person and trying to ignore it.' I can recognize all these as OCD thoughts but they undermine my coping strategies. Does this stuff get better with time and practice?

Username: Monii

Date posted: 44w ago

Is this a compulsion?

Is accepting the thoughts but trying no to get scared by them even if they are scary and cause me anxiety a compulsion? Like I m accepting them but I m trying no to be scared of them so I don’t get the anxiety but I still get the anxiety

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