Hello Lifeless
Welcome. I am one of the free, like sunny I no longer get panic attacks. I prefer the word free to cured. Once you have panic attacks you can never go back, you always have the potential to have them. Notice I said potential. The program gives you all the skills you will need to stop that potential from happening. It is like this if you break your leg bad it will heal with time and you will use it and even forget that it was broke. Unless you look for it. Then you will remember you broke it and it will bother you. You can build all kinds of negative thoughts about it or you can be glad you still have it and think positive. Panic attacks are like that. It really is learning to see the positive instead of the negative. So what does this have to do with not being able to do the things you want to? Well actually every thing. It is all right here in the program.
If you have been going through the net you will have noticed there are a lot of so called cures that are really only ways to cope in certain situations. They never give you actual freedom. Stick with us and that is what you will get. You can never go back but you can go forward with out it controlling your life. And that is a very good feeling. You may even find yourself doing things unrelated to panic that you never thought you could do.
Easy for me to say hey, you don't know me. I'm just a guy sitting on a horse.
Truth is I'm a guy sitting in a chair with a broken leg who has just had an operation to have my teeth out and has Chronic Staph infection on top of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
The Arthritis is in remission, the Staph under control and the leg healing, the teeth need a bit longer. I should be a wreck popping pills to get through the day but I'm not. I have control of my life and I will not let panic rule it. There is still some anxiety but it doesn't control my every action any more. Yes I know My body will never let me go back to the way I was. I look at the guy on the horse and realize all I have overcome to get where I am today. I have totally different hobbies that fit in with what I can do still. I am going forward instead of trying to live in the past. That is my freedom.
I don't know what your medical problem is, it could be worse than mine. The program will reduce or remove the panic it causes and allow you acceptance and control. It works.
You can join me and sunny getting up every day looking forward to what the future has to offer instead of dreading it.
Here for you,
Davit.
p.s. I no longer have panic attacks, so does CBT work? You bet!
