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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:21 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:26 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:06 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:45 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:08 am
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midara the happy banshee I suffer from anxiety disorder as well, and while it's being managed pretty well by St. John's Wort, I still need to do things to keep it under control. When I first began doing ritual, I nearly feel into the trap that you mentioned. However, with a lot of work I've managed to find ways around it. First, I learned to trust my gods. If I ask them to keep my family safe and they say they will, I trust them. And to keep myself from asking them a billion times a day, I remind myself how annoying that would be if I was in their shoes. Also, when doing magic independant of the gods, I subscribe to the vaguely chaos magic theory that the less I think about it the more likely it is to work. So I can't obsess or I'll ruin it. It's worked fairly well so far.
Thanks for the post. I'm still a newbie when it comes to this anxiety disorder, for awhile I was diagnosed with having seizures (which were just panic attacks gone wrong)
I think I should definately start trusting my gods, but lately there have been a few things that have been disrupting that. (we're about to move, depression, etc.) But as you said, it takes a lot of work to go around it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:38 pm
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I have a mild social phobia, which is to say that I am generally unreasonable distrustful of people and tend to over react in social arenas, where fight or flight often takes over prematurely.
I do fine myself constantly doing little rituals before I go into social arenas. They aren't long or complex. In my very early days I took a Scott Cunningham Star Protection Chant from one of his books, the exact title slips my mind at the moment I believe it was something Like Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, Element Magic and I would whisper it to myself anytime I went anywhere even remotely crowded. It did some good in that I was so busy focusing on the little chant that I was to preoccuppied to panic about being squashed in a loud crowd. Of course, my counsilor had actually suggested I write myself something I could say in my head to remind me that people=/= immediate danger to my person.
Another thing I did/ still do is to take a few deep breaths and ground while holding onto my intentions necklace (it is actually a really nifty necklace that is a small box where I put a peice of paper with my intentions in it...I like stuff like that though) before I walk into a place that is crowded or before I have to go somewhere and present infront of people. I also do a lot of visualization sorts or things at night to help to release tension that forms over the possible travesty any human interaction could turn into in my mind, but really most likely won't happen in reality.
I guess what I'm saying is that picking up a magical protection spell, depending on the complexity of the spell or habit might not be a bad thing and actually could be helpful instead of harmful. However that's something you would have to decide for yourself.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:47 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:44 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:18 am
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Vertigo_Kiwi Yes, I do see what you mean. Picking up some sort of chant might be beneficial for me. I can see how doing a chant or mantra during a high anixety moment would work. So, that's another thing for me to look into. By the way, thanks everyone for the replies and advice given. I was actually nervous making this post, and was afraid I'd get a lot of bad attitude. But, it had become a really helpful thread.
You have a valid concearn, and it has been put forth respectfuly and without being entrenched in fluff. This would be the reason you got the good response you have recieved. wink
For my part, I have ADHD and Bi-Polar, so while I don't know how your particular mental mechnisms work, I have at least a feel for it. I really think it matters HOW you use your faith, more then that you do or don't. Whomever this girl is who got her brain all wrapped up around her Tarot deck, chances are her OCD didn't outright COME from the deck, but from something pre-existing.
That's my opinion at least.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:52 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:07 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:48 am
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