Techniques I Used to Overcome My Panic/Anxiety Disorder

[Hun]

Wow well thats great... i love reading success stories and love reading threads that tell how people come over the bad anxiety, and are able to get over it from within. It seems hard to do so... and at point one feels so down, but i know need to keep trying...Overall am doing better am glad... I just cant seem to learn the breathing techniques thing...

Wish u all health and happiness...and keep posting positive threads and tips too...

[PanicCured]

I was hoping people would try out some of the stuff I did, but really, get an idea how to approach anxiety and to go full speed healing mode. Also this can help people not waste time on some of the trial and error I did already,

[Beachgirl]

I used meditation to overcome panic attacks and mild depression mainly. Going in for sports, breathing exercises, emotional control, acceptance of fear and panic, long walks, quitting bad habits, self-improvement, yoga, contrast shower, healthy food, good rest... These things also provided great help. But meditation was the main thing which has helped to implement all other healthy things in my life.

Those are all great tips! Glad you found something that works for you and I use many of the things you suggest as well in concert with the CBT thought countering exercises like the TEA forms etc. Keep up the good work!

[willheal]

I read the first set of the original posts and this is such a wonderful thing to hear. The title had me skeptical at first (I thought it was pinned up as an ad) but I'm glad to see this was honest and not a flimsy attempt to sell something. Thank you for sharing

I have been so wrapped up with thinking I'd never get better, and that I need medication or treatment for the rest of my life even though I'm still relatively young and it seemed kinda hopeless. This feels like a very humble and honest success story and it gives me hope. Maybe I can be functional again in one year.

I'll have to read through some of the pages and garner some more of these good feelings.

[PanicCured]

I read the first set of the original posts and this is such a wonderful thing to hear. The title had me skeptical at first (I thought it was pinned up as an ad) but I'm glad to see this was honest and not a flimsy attempt to sell something. Thank you for sharing

I have been so wrapped up with thinking I'd never get better, and that I need medication or treatment for the rest of my life even though I'm still relatively young and it seemed kinda hopeless. This feels like a very humble and honest success story and it gives me hope. Maybe I can be functional again in one year.

I'll have to read through some of the pages and garner some more of these good feelings.

I am still anxiety free and this is how I did it. I left some things out as it was already a long post. I was trying to show my path so others can form their own path based on what I did. You do not have to be 100% without fear, or even be 100% free of anxiety, but you want to be 100% anxiety disorder free. I mean, if you are in a burning building you won't sit down and say "Oh well, I am not scared." You will use the anxiety-fight or flight response to give you extra powers to get out. That is the fight or flight mechanism in its correct form not as a disorder.

Read it again and get on a similar path of ANXIETY FREE NO MATTER WHAT!

[DrStrangeluv]

Loved your post, I will definitely start drinking more chamomile and start facing my fears.

[Joe.]

Thank you so much!

I am bookmarking this!

[KenPowell]

Great tips! It's quite difficult to find chamomile in where I'm living now though (Singapore)

[PanicCured]

Yeah I had an awful lot of trial and error myself at the start, but I think that is just the way of it. I kinda think that you have to go through with these kinds of things yourself in order to learn and prosper.

I wish that were true, but most people will not go through this trial and error on their own. One of my main points in my post was if you get in the mindset of full speed ahead and you will be anxiety free no matter what is so key, yet most people are not willing to do that, spend the money I spent, time I spent, put in the effort I spent, so I lay out a template they can use to make it easier for them. The goal here is really to create a healing path not exactly, but based on what I did. But some programs along the way I want to encourage such as that Eastern Essentials Heal Anxiety Package, the Buteyko breathing book by Patrick McKeown, Chamomile tea, passionflower extract, yoga, etc.

[PanicCured]

Great tips! It's quite difficult to find chamomile in where I'm living now though (Singapore)

I find that hard to believe. It may go under a different name there. You can order from iherb.com which they ship around the world, and if you buy the Eastern Essentials Heal Anxiety Package it comes with it and they claim to ship around the world too.