Overwhelmed

[ConfusedKetchup]

Overwhelmed - backed into a corner
living by fight or flight - no relief
Guilt and shame over things one has no control over, being hurt, unintentionally hurting others
Most of all - the confusion..

No escape

 

[Wolfnox]

Sounds like the madness. Focus on a single word or object. Bring all your attention to nare on it. Ask questions about it and keep attention on it. Eventually you will focus.

 

[Peter Morrison]

Sounds like the madness. Focus on a single word or object. Bring all your attention to nare on it. Ask questions about it and keep attention on it. Eventually you will focus.

Excellent advice and told as truth needs to be told. Stopping the chaos, confusion, and craziness comes from asserting priorities and not letting anything get in the way. If you are stomping out fires day after day, that means that nothing is being protected or prepared. It's difficult to get anything done when everything is clamoring for attention.

I am using Mindfulness, a method to slow down the swirl of thoughts and outside interferences in simple tasks. As Wolf Prince advises, keep focusing on the one issue and you will find your focusing strength. Slow down your breathing, focus on the fact that you are breathing slowly, select the step in your task, focus only on that step, and ignore thoughts of problems and decisions that are not related to your task. It's effective, and it's free. I keep a note below my bathroom mirror to remind me of it. Focus is all about conscious thought.

The only aspect of Mindfulness that I find peculiar is that I will begin to move slowly, but deliberately, after the breathing and focusing activity. I stop rushing and I remain calm. You would be amazed at how many clear thoughts come into your mind when you slow down and put yourself "in the moment". My traditional thoughts of worry, gloom and doom, and indecisiveness return from time to time, but less often. When they do, I apply breathing and focus to keep myself from spinning into the chaos. I hate the chaos.