AboveAndBeyond
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Anxiety - it was my life for 5 months, you can't say anything that I didn't have and if you do it'd be hard to beleive. I'm 17 and beleive anxiety is easy to overcome, and YES I had every fear that you may have now.
Anxiety is only fear. You may agree that it's all symptoms of fear. The fight or flight effect ALL THE TIME because you program your mind that everyday things are like that. I beleive how you are can be explained by habits and your thoughts. It's possible to break habits and you can think about other things so it IS stoppable.
This is what I did... I was fed up with anxiety, I lived it, I could only talk about it, related everything to it. And so familiar with it that "it" only means anxiety. One day, I thought "if it's only your thoughts and you over thinking things (ex. afraid of my heart beat.) then DONT THINK" I said "shoes" over and over in my head and forced myself to stop thinking. When a "bad thought" pop in my head I'd scream "NO" and say shoes again. When something good (not about anxiety) came in my mind I went with it.
Maybe I'm not a good explainer in words, but I beleive if you rid the memory that caused your anxiety spike, then you would never be consumed with it.
Think positive about everything and stop thinking about anxiety, don't even use the word anymore. FORCE IT OUT OF YOUR THOUGHTS. and slowly you will feel better. Days after I forgot about anxiety I got head aches, feelling I was going to pass out and no appetite. My body was telling me that the anxiety free state wasn't normal, but I didn't give up. It's almost like not caring anymore, I didn't care if anything happend, cause I KNEW just like you know it can't hurt you. Then why fear? My anxiety stopped in 2 weeks.
You don't need medicine, books, any help... only know it's fear controlling you. Only you can help yourself. You can break fears, I was once scared to walk, that's when you know something isn't right. Stop it now before it get's worse. Don't let fear control you.
I've been through nights where I thought I was never gonna live to see another day, depression, and nothing was good. Anxiety was stamped on my brain. It's very hard to control but you can. I beleive medicine is NOT the answer but you can learn from it too...when you feel better taking a medicine it shows that you are FINE and have nothing to worry about. Learn from everything you do and think positive and you will slowly feel better about your anxiety!
I live with social anxiety now but that is my next fear to break! I post to help people because I don't want anyone to go through half of the thoughts, feelings I did. Knowledge is power, you can learn, you can break anxiety.
Anxiety is only fear. You may agree that it's all symptoms of fear. The fight or flight effect ALL THE TIME because you program your mind that everyday things are like that. I beleive how you are can be explained by habits and your thoughts. It's possible to break habits and you can think about other things so it IS stoppable.
This is what I did... I was fed up with anxiety, I lived it, I could only talk about it, related everything to it. And so familiar with it that "it" only means anxiety. One day, I thought "if it's only your thoughts and you over thinking things (ex. afraid of my heart beat.) then DONT THINK" I said "shoes" over and over in my head and forced myself to stop thinking. When a "bad thought" pop in my head I'd scream "NO" and say shoes again. When something good (not about anxiety) came in my mind I went with it.
Maybe I'm not a good explainer in words, but I beleive if you rid the memory that caused your anxiety spike, then you would never be consumed with it.
Think positive about everything and stop thinking about anxiety, don't even use the word anymore. FORCE IT OUT OF YOUR THOUGHTS. and slowly you will feel better. Days after I forgot about anxiety I got head aches, feelling I was going to pass out and no appetite. My body was telling me that the anxiety free state wasn't normal, but I didn't give up. It's almost like not caring anymore, I didn't care if anything happend, cause I KNEW just like you know it can't hurt you. Then why fear? My anxiety stopped in 2 weeks.
You don't need medicine, books, any help... only know it's fear controlling you. Only you can help yourself. You can break fears, I was once scared to walk, that's when you know something isn't right. Stop it now before it get's worse. Don't let fear control you.
I've been through nights where I thought I was never gonna live to see another day, depression, and nothing was good. Anxiety was stamped on my brain. It's very hard to control but you can. I beleive medicine is NOT the answer but you can learn from it too...when you feel better taking a medicine it shows that you are FINE and have nothing to worry about. Learn from everything you do and think positive and you will slowly feel better about your anxiety!
I live with social anxiety now but that is my next fear to break! I post to help people because I don't want anyone to go through half of the thoughts, feelings I did. Knowledge is power, you can learn, you can break anxiety.
