panicsurvivor
Well-known member
Now will not come again. We all spend too much time looking at the past, and the future. Then one day you find there is more time behind you than there is in front of you. My dad's health, has been failing for a few years now, and he has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer......again. This time nothing can cure him, he is too weak for more surgery or chemo. I have spent so much time living in fear, that I have forgot to live. Anxiety and Panic is all caused by us. Not others, not situations, not geography, not past trauma. We are afraid of being afraid. We have let our own minds develop unhealthy thinking patterns to put us in the place that we are. I am furious with myself for letting my panic disorder rule me for as long as it has. There is so much water under the bridge. I have missed out on so many things, have let myself live a limited existence, and for what? Too avoid my heart rate going up? Racing thoughts? Shortness of breath? Tingling legs? Life is so short. My dad is going to die before he reaches 55. I am 32. I can't spend the rest of my life dealing with a problem that I am causing myself, and then die with nothing to show for it but memories of fear. Please everyone. Get out there. Do exposure therapy, or cbt, or anything. But don't let your life pass you by.