nomoreanxiety
01-24-2012, 02:09 PM
MY ANXIETY
A brief story of my anxiety and how it affected me.
Remember this is over a period of at least six years made very short because it doesn’t really matter.
I did not know how my anxiety started or why, but it was making my life hell on earth and getting worse! I was worrying about everything. I thought I was going insane, my heart was racing much of the time and the palms of my hands were always sweating. I was short tempered and could not concentrate on anything, my thoughts were racing but the thoughts I was thinking or should I say trying not to think about were abnormal to say the least. I was trying so hard not to think all this stuff, I was having panic attacks on a regular basis and was paranoid that people knew or would find out that I was mental. I was convinced I had a severe mental health problem or a brain disease or tumor.
I started trawling the internet for answers and self diagnosed myself at least fifteen times with all sorts of disorders. Finally I got the confidence to go to the doctor who told me he was pretty sure it was anxiety and put me on anti-depressants and sent me to a councilor, all to no avail, all a load of crap.
How i beat anxiety in one month.
First things first, check your breathing it is very important that you breath from your diaphragm/belly and not your chest because when you are standing upright the blood stays mostly at the bottom of your lungs and if you just breath with your chest the oxygen does not get all the way down to oxygenate your blood, which causes problems.
Second and very important, take the importance or significance out of your thoughts. I came to understand that thoughts can be very dangerous if you do not know how insignificant they really are! About 90% of our thoughts are just repetitive bullshit. If you give them too much importance and you are not thinking helpful thoughts that serve you, then they can overrun your head and make you feel miserable. They can even give you panic attacks and depression. The worst thing you can do is try to stop thinking the thoughts you don’t want to think, you will be fighting a loosing battle, just let the thoughts be, give them no attention, no importance (its just a thought). Unless its a thought that serves you then you can follow the trail.. but if not just say bullshit into yourself and carry on regardless.
In time all the bullshit will disappear and the ones you follow will expand.
Third and final! the only way to stop thinking is to use your awareness, some people call this meditation but it can be done anywhere at anytime.. sitting or standing or lying down or upside down. Just listen.. look.. feel.. smell, basically use your senses without judging or getting involved in a thought process about what you are doing.
It was that simple!
A brief story of my anxiety and how it affected me.
Remember this is over a period of at least six years made very short because it doesn’t really matter.
I did not know how my anxiety started or why, but it was making my life hell on earth and getting worse! I was worrying about everything. I thought I was going insane, my heart was racing much of the time and the palms of my hands were always sweating. I was short tempered and could not concentrate on anything, my thoughts were racing but the thoughts I was thinking or should I say trying not to think about were abnormal to say the least. I was trying so hard not to think all this stuff, I was having panic attacks on a regular basis and was paranoid that people knew or would find out that I was mental. I was convinced I had a severe mental health problem or a brain disease or tumor.
I started trawling the internet for answers and self diagnosed myself at least fifteen times with all sorts of disorders. Finally I got the confidence to go to the doctor who told me he was pretty sure it was anxiety and put me on anti-depressants and sent me to a councilor, all to no avail, all a load of crap.
How i beat anxiety in one month.
First things first, check your breathing it is very important that you breath from your diaphragm/belly and not your chest because when you are standing upright the blood stays mostly at the bottom of your lungs and if you just breath with your chest the oxygen does not get all the way down to oxygenate your blood, which causes problems.
Second and very important, take the importance or significance out of your thoughts. I came to understand that thoughts can be very dangerous if you do not know how insignificant they really are! About 90% of our thoughts are just repetitive bullshit. If you give them too much importance and you are not thinking helpful thoughts that serve you, then they can overrun your head and make you feel miserable. They can even give you panic attacks and depression. The worst thing you can do is try to stop thinking the thoughts you don’t want to think, you will be fighting a loosing battle, just let the thoughts be, give them no attention, no importance (its just a thought). Unless its a thought that serves you then you can follow the trail.. but if not just say bullshit into yourself and carry on regardless.
In time all the bullshit will disappear and the ones you follow will expand.
Third and final! the only way to stop thinking is to use your awareness, some people call this meditation but it can be done anywhere at anytime.. sitting or standing or lying down or upside down. Just listen.. look.. feel.. smell, basically use your senses without judging or getting involved in a thought process about what you are doing.
It was that simple!