Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder can often be totally successful, but only if you stick to some basic, sensible guidelines. The first of these fundamental guidelines that should always be followed is to “surround yourself with recovery.” The idea of “surrounding yourself with recovery” is probably pretty new for you, but in a moment you’ll fully understand this idea, and more importantly, you’ll understand how to stick to this fundamental guideline and cause your recovery to go into overdrive.
To get to grips with this new concept of surrounding yourself with recovery, you need to understand all about the opposite of what this is. The opposite to this is surrounding yourself with negativity. This includes all those things you do that are negative and inspired or controlled by your anxiety: being around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on living with anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety loop that it’s hard to break free from. You start feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be awful; it’s difficult enough just dealing with your own problems. When this occurs, this is a classic case of surrounding yourself with total negativity. You don’t want to be in a place like this, because it can single-handedly halt all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
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 more 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 solely on living with anxiety.
Just stopping these things will solve your problem of “surrounding yourself with negativity.” But how do you “surround yourself with recovery?” Well, you just need to do the opposite of everything you’ve been doing until this point right now.
Here’s how to do that: don’t hang out with people with anxiety, hang out with people who had anxiety in the past but got over it. Don’t hang out on websites with people who have anxiety, hang out on websites with people who had anxiety in the past and got over it. Don’t read books about people who have anxiety, read books about people who had anxiety in the past but got over it.
Instead of reading books that concentrate on how to beat your anxiety, read books written by people who’ve already had anxiety and overcome it. These simple things will get you away from “surrounding yourself with negativity” and take you into the land of “surrounding yourself with recovery.” You’ll be in immediately better shape, and immediately put yourself on a much more healthy path that leads towards beating anxiety for good.
People generally get what they think about and concentrate on, so putting all your energy into the people who were once where you are now but beat their problems has to be a sensible idea.
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