The Simple Approach To Stop Panic Attacks
Posted on May 31st, 2010 by admin
Treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), despite being tricky, can be successful. To be successful, though, you need to stick to a few simple guidelines. The first guideline you need to stick to is to surround yourself with recovery. This is probably a new idea for you, but don’t worry – in a while I’ll explain what this concept involves, and you’ll see it’s not hard at all.
To grasp this idea of surrounding yourself with recovery it’s vital that you first understand what is the opposite of this, and that’s the surrounding yourself with negativity part. When you’re someone who surrounds yourself with negativity, you’ll generally spend a lot of time (online and offline) around people who have the same anxiety-related problems as you. You’ll also often read books and internet message boards that focus on anxiety.
All these things have the potential to center your mind on your anxiety. Even worse, this can sometimes lead to your taking all the weight on your own shoulders from the anxiety-related problems of others. That’s why surrounding yourself with negativity like this can be so damaging. In the worst cases, this negativity can totally stop all the progress you’re making in stopping your anxiety for good.
So now you understand what the idea of surrounding yourself with negativity is all about, now you need to know what surrounding yourself with recovery is all about. Esentially, at its core, this is about avoiding everything I mentioned just now. So no longer talking to other people who also have anxiety problems at the moment, no more going to forums full of people who are suffering with anxiety, and no more books that are focused only on living with anxiety.
Guess what? If you can stop doing these few things, you’ll no longer be surrounding yourself with negativity. So that’s half the battle won. But how do you then move onto surrounding yourself with recovery? The answer, thankfully, is easy: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you start doing the opposite.
Instead of being around people who are suffering with anxiety problems of their own, surround yourself with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but have since recovered. Instead of studying forums and message boards that are full of people suffering with anxiety, visit forums and message boards that are full of people who’ve had generalized anxiety disorder and overcome it.
These things are simple, I know, but they work. Trust me. These things will lead you away from negativity and towards recovery.
We tend to get what we think of or focus on. So it makes sense to put all your energy and focus on people who’ve been where you are now and turned everything around.