I guess the one piece of advice I could give you as I battled with Panic Disorder last year is to make a list detailing the hierarchies of your fears. Rate them from 1 - 10, 1 being the least and 10 your worst fear. Then start by trying to overcome the ones rated lowest on your list first, this will give you a sense of accomplishment and encouragement to move along.
When a situation becomes too highly charged shall we say, above a level 4 on the panic scale. Retreat and try it again at another time. With time and persistence you will conquer your fears. Once you confront a fear time and time again it will dissapate and lose it's hold on you. Do not try to tackle your worst fear first you need to gradually work your way up to challenging it.
Believe it or not it will get better, you will get over this. I did and you can too.
I hope you don't mind me making one more suggestion could you contact a rape/crisis line where you live. Maybe they could put you in touch with someone who could help you through this trying period.
I have been feeling extremely self-conscious lately, to the point where any time I am outside I feel less than people. I feel like a social misfit. I didn't always feel this bad, I really think that the Group Process classes which had such a negative impact on me started it.
I feel I don't fit in any where, I can't work, I don't fit in the class I'm in. My life is becoming more and more intolerable and I don't know what to do.
I didn't go to class today because it was group process & I just couldn't face it as the week hasn't been very good. In fact I think I'm slipping into depression again (this will be the 3rd time). I don't seem to have much motivation, I had more last semester.
You know I'm really sick & tired of fighting one disorder after another, there was a time last year when I actually envisioned getting back to work - now I'm not so sure. I just feel as if the life has been sucked out of me. Well at this point the way I'm talking maybe I should go to the Depressioncenter.net.
I did receive a message from my professor regarding our group process class. She said she would like to she what could be done to try and accommodate me. So at least that sounds hopeful.
Thanks for thinking of me, hope all is well with you.
Well just had my first pa in quite some time & it was a bad one! I felt as if I was going to lose control, sound familiar? No wonder with the negative way I talk to myself, I had just said to myself I'm in a bad state. No one has ever said that to me, none of my social workers or my former psychotherapist it's just my opinion.
You ever feel like everything is so overwhelming what you have to change about yourself, I sure do. I'm starting the program again in the hopes I can challenge my negative thinking which I know for a fact is at the root of this.
Gotta go I can feel another pa coming on - oh boy.
I like you at times have these terrifying thoughts and wrack my brain trying to figure out what is wrong with me, why am I thinking about this, am I going crazy? You know what we are not going crazy, we are just extremely anxious and/or panicky and people like us can have thoughts like these. Having said that I have been reading about the subject of obsessive scary thoughts and the more power we give the thought the more it intensifies it's hold on us to the point where we can get a pa. The best thing to do is don't pay any attention to the thought (s) but just let them float away. Recgonize them for what they are just thoughts, we would never act on them because just thinking about them frightens the wits out of us.
I can recommend a really good book written by a panic attack survivor - yes I said survivor. It's called "At Last A Life" by Paul David in it he clearly states the worst thing we can do is try fighting the thought - we will lose. You will find answers to a lot of questions and hopefully it will lead you to your road of recovery.
So nice to hear from you again and I'm glad things are going so well for you.
I'm not doing as well as you. I am down a lot, my moods are getting very low at times. In fact tonight it just seemed to plummet for no reason (that I know of). From there it got worse because I thought this will be the 3rd round of depression for me & it frightened the wits out of me just thinking about the "pit" again. So needless to say I got worked up into quite a frenzy and was very frightened something was going to happen to me.
I am scheduled to see a new psychotherapist in April and hoping to be accepted into a course of Cognitive Behavior Mindfulness Therapy or group therapy for Anxiety Disorders. So hopefully something will help me along in my recovery process.
I often wondered how you were doing.
You should have posted in the success stories section because it certainly is one, congratulations.
Thanks for your reply & I will let you guys know about my new treatments.
I guess one question plagues me & that is how do I handle when the intense thought comes to mind that something is going to happen to me. Sometimes it just frightens the wits out of me & other times it just lingers for hours. How do I deal with challenging that thought? It's not as if it's a specific phobia I have to overcome, as I have done all my exposure work already.
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, way to go!
