Welcome Kirsten, I'm glad you came here. This really does help and talking to the people here helped me a lot. If I had a question they are the ones I ask.
I'm sorry about what you've been through, but it takes a day At a time to heal. I stopped lookin for the instant cure. What helps me is to ride the tunnel of anxiety and panic and come through on the other side stronger. Now when I feel the panic I know I've been there done that before and it doesn't scare me as much and it doesn't last any longer. If I do start thinking and fearing it I know it will be worse.
CBT is great, I'm not 100% better but i know I will never be again, as I now know I have to a mange the anxiety. And when I do get an attack I just have to ride it out and keep going.
I'm sure you'll get there as well. I've learnt from this best from here including Davit, Red and others. I hope you do to.
I've been having a hard time lately because I've been under a lot of stress. It seems like nothing is going right for me this year. I was given good feedback from my psychologist 2 weeks ago about how well I've been doing. I hate feel in stressed and because of this new anxiety its like 10 times worse. I remember being stressed 5 years ago and it wasn't this bad.
I've been doing my CBT but its so hard to keep going over and over it in your head. Sometimes I just want to say "STOP" worrying and this leads me to worry more.
Is all this anxiety bad for you in the long term and short term? For all you friends here who's had anxiety long has it every affected our health?
I think my main worry is my health, it always leads to that worry. No matter how stressed I am I'm worried about what it can do to my health and what I'm feeling. I find that when I don't feel 100% I get worried that something's wrong. I'll Have to figure out what my core belief is that's interfering with me feeling better.
Now when I get anxious I get mad at it. It's ruined my life in some aspects and I get mad at it and tell it to go away. But sometimes it still holds it's power, Ashley is right. I'm so angry at anxiety right not I want to scream at it.maybe this anger will help me finally put it away
I constantly worry myself about my health, when a new symptom or something pops up. I start to worry that its something bad. I then try to challenge and prove I am wrong or right in my worry. and this makes my anxiety go lower. Now I find that when I get stressed about the little things I get anxious, then I use my CBT again. We notice that we have to use CBT because we've been there before. A lot of people I know use CBT without even knowing it. For ex. my sister feels a lump on her back, she says to herself, its nothing. I'm not going to worry about it. I'll just get it check out. Where if that was me, I'd worry so much about it I'll get panic attacks.
I've noticed that I've probably been using CBT all my life without knowing....but because I've let anxiety take over my life last year, I notice I do it more. It kind of sucks, but CBT is helping. "You feel what you think".... was a good saying my friend once told me. And I believe in that soooo much. I just wish I wasn't as aware of my anxiety and my CBT, I wish it would come automatically so that my anxiety symptoms are forever gone.
Worrying does hit me. Especially when I'm alone, driving or nothin to do. I tend to think about my anxiety. How do we put a stop on this? Because I think if I were to get hypnotized into forgetting what happened to me, I would be okay.
So I have good days where I feel good and no anxiety. I've been working real hard with CBT ,behaviour and thinking. But when it comes back, its like a wave and sometimes i'm not sure if I thought of something for it to come. Then I dwell on it and question why it came back...and kick myself because it's back and start to worry, maybe its not anxiety and something bad. Then Anxiety returns.
How do you get past this and just keep going when its always in the back of your head?
How do you unlearn and not get from memory???? Please help.
Hi does anyone have success stories, that can help myself and all those suffering from anxiety give motivation for us? We may feel that we can't get through this but maybe hearing and reading some success stories can give us some light.
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