Xerosnake90
09-01-2014, 06:43 PM
Hello everyone and welcome to the change of your life!
We're all here for a reason and with the same question. How do we beat our anxiety? I'll tell you this, the accumulation of anxiety can happen at any given time. It only takes one event in your life for it to uncontain itself and turn into full blown anxiety. Included with physical symptoms and the many mind games that come with it. While you're here we are going to educate you on anxiety, how it affects us and ultimately how to beat it. There are threads here already entailing diet plans that help with anxiety and I will include links for them here. So how do we get started? It's not by popping a magic pill! Let's get started in beating this thing.
What is my anxiety You're sitting in your bed. You've had these strange feelings all day long. Something is off, strangely so. You carry on your days until something triggers an eruption . Your fingers numb and tingling, your heartbeat races and all of the sudden it HITS you. This extreme surge throughout your body that sends chills all over your body. All of the sudden your mind runs off asking "what the hell just happened?". You're in a skirmish, frantically punching in the letters on your keyboard asking google what is happening to you. Big mistake you come to realize. Your searches send back information that you're having a heart attack. At this point you feel nausea and are scared for your life. "I'm having a heart attack!" You're convinced. But somehow you get past it, you don't collapse and either away. Instead you carry this constant worry, why did this happen to me? You spend days, weeks, maybe months or years wondering why. You have symptoms that are explained only by the worst ideas. Cancer, heart problems, degenerative disease. The list goes on, and the more you worry about it the more you sink into your seat. There absolutely must be something wrong with you as you are convinced. It's just so strange that you never realized these symptoms seem to be there only when you notice them.
Thoughts escape you . Reality becomes a chore and you just keep trying to live a normal life under these new rules. Sure enough they overwhelm you, resulting in more pains, sometimes severe and terrifying. Why do your muscles twitch, your eye twitches and it's getting worse. It never lasted this long before. This cycle goes on and on indefinitely. You feel like you'll never feel normal again until your google search stumbles you upon your saving grace. Understanding. You come across an anxiety page and you relate to all the things being said. This can't possibly be anxiety can it? All these things I feel are real and not something you just imagined up! It can't be!
So here we are with this absolute life changing mindset and we can't believe how we feel. This thought is devastating and rules my world, how could this be self induced? And so we enter the world of anxiety. Let me start this by saying these feelings and thoughts are absolutely "self induced". Us humans have endured years of evolution, ranging from primitive beings to ideas of learning to intelligent humans of vast knowledge. Ideas that passes on through decades until we became the prime beings that we are today. Thinking of the ultimate, the mind is a powerful device that creates out entire existence. If not for out perception of the world would there be a purpose behind it? You set your own path and train of thought. If we believe the people of this world are here to enjoy all life and to love, we will love. If we are cowered away and avoid the demons of existence we will cower away from that evil. Ultimately our ideas shape our existence and that is something that believe it or not is shaped by one simple thing. What we think about! So you're thinking "no, you're telling me my thinking creates all of these physical pains and terrible fatigues, stomach problems. Etc?" Short answer. Yes. Once again, your mind is your existence and when you think that you're in pain constantly, and that you will not get any better. That IS your existence at that point. You see? It's all you focus on. You're not thinking about how you're becoming a better person at your job by absolutely exceeding your limits. You're only stuck on feeling feeling bad. And there you go. So we've come to determine that what we focus on can shape our lives and how we live. Are you still confused? Don't be, this information will make more sense when we go over how our anxiety works.
How it all works So we've determined that what we think about shapes out anxiety. Let's get into that a bit further. Thoughts and emotions are connected. When we are elated we tend to have positive ideas. "I feel great! I want to do this right now it'll be so fun!". So you go about your fun activities with that mind set. Let's flip that around and see your mindset when upset! "This sucks, I don't want to do this right now". You focus on negative ideas that you reinforce with negative statements. So how does this work with anxiety? Fear. Through some form of event your fears manifested and with fear comes worry. You worry about things in life normally, are you doing well at work? Will my bills be paid on time? Etc. So how does this turn into the anxiety we know? Easy , you're constantly worrying. Think about this, you need to sleep every day for a set amount of time. This is your reboot period when your brain and body does the most important thing it can, heal. Your mind heals, your body heals. When we don't sleep the mind deteriorates. Energy levels drop, can't focus, the list keeps going. Now think of that in terms of anxiety. Your brain is constantly in a state of worry. Concious thoughts focus on fear. You worry of your health, your job or relationship. This keeps going until you externally begin to do things to avoid said thoughts. Avoidance through avoidance. You stop seeing your friends or quit with your workout regime. You don't make eye contact or reach out for conversation when out and about etc. eventually this train of thought becomes the norm for you. Your brain adapts to your new way of thinking and your body gets used to staying in a state of worry and fear. At this point physical symptoms are present and powerful. Extreme fatigue, nausea, tingling or numbness, migraine headaches, eye twitching. And of course everyone's favorite, panic attacks. You must understand that your brain gets little to no time to stop worrying. As if you were awake for days on end it gets no rest time. And thus irritability and the like also presents itself.
Anxiety affects people in many ways alike. But how come some people react differently? So once again, we go back to how we let our thoughts rule our existence. If someone has been living life with the mindset they are a happy person despite troubles, you'll find them to stay relatively positive and hopeful they can beat this thing. Someone who grew up to be angry will accept that and just lash out against others. It's all about what we desire for ourselves and that's important in overcoming anxiety which we are just about ready to do.
Another way to understand your anxiety is to understand how it works on a primal instinct. We all have a fight or flight instinct. The same part of the brain that initiates hiccups and yawns are responsible for your fight or flight reaction. Ever wonder why you yawn or get random hiccups as an anxiety symptom? Makes sense now doesn't it? Fight or flight initiates with the same surge that happens through a panic attack. Adrenaline. We rarely experience a fight or flight scenario due to our lives remaining relatively safe at all times. We no longer have need to be out in the wild hunting for our food, we no longer need to react to a wild animal threatening our lives. If such a scenario were to happen your fight or flight would react and you'd feel that exact thing you feel during a panic attack. So why are panic attacks so scary? Because you're not facing any danger. You're going about your business and this fight or flight situation hits you. This feeling is designed for when you are threatened. And since you aren't facing any actual danger the intense feeling usually comes with rampant thoughts of "why am I feeling this and something must be wrong". If you were in real danger you'd know that and wouldn't have time to wonder why you're feeling this way. You'd be fighting to survive! We will get back to this later when we learn to accept the panic attack feeling.
Now I advise everyone follow and read the two threads in about to post so you can get an even deeper understanding of anxiety, and your diet for beating anxiety. Foods have a huge effect on our chemistry and can effect you. So right now, read these two!!
Eating regime: http://anxietyforum.net/forum/showthread.php?14507-The-Definitive-Supplement-Regimen-to-Help-Cure-Your-Anxiety
Understanding your fears: http://anxietyforum.net/forum/showthread.php?29354-Understanding-your-fears-The-origins-of-your-anxiety
We're all here for a reason and with the same question. How do we beat our anxiety? I'll tell you this, the accumulation of anxiety can happen at any given time. It only takes one event in your life for it to uncontain itself and turn into full blown anxiety. Included with physical symptoms and the many mind games that come with it. While you're here we are going to educate you on anxiety, how it affects us and ultimately how to beat it. There are threads here already entailing diet plans that help with anxiety and I will include links for them here. So how do we get started? It's not by popping a magic pill! Let's get started in beating this thing.
What is my anxiety You're sitting in your bed. You've had these strange feelings all day long. Something is off, strangely so. You carry on your days until something triggers an eruption . Your fingers numb and tingling, your heartbeat races and all of the sudden it HITS you. This extreme surge throughout your body that sends chills all over your body. All of the sudden your mind runs off asking "what the hell just happened?". You're in a skirmish, frantically punching in the letters on your keyboard asking google what is happening to you. Big mistake you come to realize. Your searches send back information that you're having a heart attack. At this point you feel nausea and are scared for your life. "I'm having a heart attack!" You're convinced. But somehow you get past it, you don't collapse and either away. Instead you carry this constant worry, why did this happen to me? You spend days, weeks, maybe months or years wondering why. You have symptoms that are explained only by the worst ideas. Cancer, heart problems, degenerative disease. The list goes on, and the more you worry about it the more you sink into your seat. There absolutely must be something wrong with you as you are convinced. It's just so strange that you never realized these symptoms seem to be there only when you notice them.
Thoughts escape you . Reality becomes a chore and you just keep trying to live a normal life under these new rules. Sure enough they overwhelm you, resulting in more pains, sometimes severe and terrifying. Why do your muscles twitch, your eye twitches and it's getting worse. It never lasted this long before. This cycle goes on and on indefinitely. You feel like you'll never feel normal again until your google search stumbles you upon your saving grace. Understanding. You come across an anxiety page and you relate to all the things being said. This can't possibly be anxiety can it? All these things I feel are real and not something you just imagined up! It can't be!
So here we are with this absolute life changing mindset and we can't believe how we feel. This thought is devastating and rules my world, how could this be self induced? And so we enter the world of anxiety. Let me start this by saying these feelings and thoughts are absolutely "self induced". Us humans have endured years of evolution, ranging from primitive beings to ideas of learning to intelligent humans of vast knowledge. Ideas that passes on through decades until we became the prime beings that we are today. Thinking of the ultimate, the mind is a powerful device that creates out entire existence. If not for out perception of the world would there be a purpose behind it? You set your own path and train of thought. If we believe the people of this world are here to enjoy all life and to love, we will love. If we are cowered away and avoid the demons of existence we will cower away from that evil. Ultimately our ideas shape our existence and that is something that believe it or not is shaped by one simple thing. What we think about! So you're thinking "no, you're telling me my thinking creates all of these physical pains and terrible fatigues, stomach problems. Etc?" Short answer. Yes. Once again, your mind is your existence and when you think that you're in pain constantly, and that you will not get any better. That IS your existence at that point. You see? It's all you focus on. You're not thinking about how you're becoming a better person at your job by absolutely exceeding your limits. You're only stuck on feeling feeling bad. And there you go. So we've come to determine that what we focus on can shape our lives and how we live. Are you still confused? Don't be, this information will make more sense when we go over how our anxiety works.
How it all works So we've determined that what we think about shapes out anxiety. Let's get into that a bit further. Thoughts and emotions are connected. When we are elated we tend to have positive ideas. "I feel great! I want to do this right now it'll be so fun!". So you go about your fun activities with that mind set. Let's flip that around and see your mindset when upset! "This sucks, I don't want to do this right now". You focus on negative ideas that you reinforce with negative statements. So how does this work with anxiety? Fear. Through some form of event your fears manifested and with fear comes worry. You worry about things in life normally, are you doing well at work? Will my bills be paid on time? Etc. So how does this turn into the anxiety we know? Easy , you're constantly worrying. Think about this, you need to sleep every day for a set amount of time. This is your reboot period when your brain and body does the most important thing it can, heal. Your mind heals, your body heals. When we don't sleep the mind deteriorates. Energy levels drop, can't focus, the list keeps going. Now think of that in terms of anxiety. Your brain is constantly in a state of worry. Concious thoughts focus on fear. You worry of your health, your job or relationship. This keeps going until you externally begin to do things to avoid said thoughts. Avoidance through avoidance. You stop seeing your friends or quit with your workout regime. You don't make eye contact or reach out for conversation when out and about etc. eventually this train of thought becomes the norm for you. Your brain adapts to your new way of thinking and your body gets used to staying in a state of worry and fear. At this point physical symptoms are present and powerful. Extreme fatigue, nausea, tingling or numbness, migraine headaches, eye twitching. And of course everyone's favorite, panic attacks. You must understand that your brain gets little to no time to stop worrying. As if you were awake for days on end it gets no rest time. And thus irritability and the like also presents itself.
Anxiety affects people in many ways alike. But how come some people react differently? So once again, we go back to how we let our thoughts rule our existence. If someone has been living life with the mindset they are a happy person despite troubles, you'll find them to stay relatively positive and hopeful they can beat this thing. Someone who grew up to be angry will accept that and just lash out against others. It's all about what we desire for ourselves and that's important in overcoming anxiety which we are just about ready to do.
Another way to understand your anxiety is to understand how it works on a primal instinct. We all have a fight or flight instinct. The same part of the brain that initiates hiccups and yawns are responsible for your fight or flight reaction. Ever wonder why you yawn or get random hiccups as an anxiety symptom? Makes sense now doesn't it? Fight or flight initiates with the same surge that happens through a panic attack. Adrenaline. We rarely experience a fight or flight scenario due to our lives remaining relatively safe at all times. We no longer have need to be out in the wild hunting for our food, we no longer need to react to a wild animal threatening our lives. If such a scenario were to happen your fight or flight would react and you'd feel that exact thing you feel during a panic attack. So why are panic attacks so scary? Because you're not facing any danger. You're going about your business and this fight or flight situation hits you. This feeling is designed for when you are threatened. And since you aren't facing any actual danger the intense feeling usually comes with rampant thoughts of "why am I feeling this and something must be wrong". If you were in real danger you'd know that and wouldn't have time to wonder why you're feeling this way. You'd be fighting to survive! We will get back to this later when we learn to accept the panic attack feeling.
Now I advise everyone follow and read the two threads in about to post so you can get an even deeper understanding of anxiety, and your diet for beating anxiety. Foods have a huge effect on our chemistry and can effect you. So right now, read these two!!
Eating regime: http://anxietyforum.net/forum/showthread.php?14507-The-Definitive-Supplement-Regimen-to-Help-Cure-Your-Anxiety
Understanding your fears: http://anxietyforum.net/forum/showthread.php?29354-Understanding-your-fears-The-origins-of-your-anxiety