You certainly can't just ignore it and expect it to go away but for me getting better required learning the coping skills I learned from cbt. Once you begin to counter your thoughts that cause the anxiety it will become more manageable. Try and join a cbt group or you can read the book I always recommend to start with that we used in my group called Been there, done that? Do This! By sam obitz. It's a short easy book and pretty encouraging. It takes dedication but if you are willing to work on yourself cbt will make a huge difference for you

Self disipline and stress managment is very hard. In saying this, I am talking as far as leaving a job, family intervention, doing things you like to do to re-direct your brain. You have to know what your "tiggers" are and stay away from them. Meaning whatever it is that sets you off on an attack. You have to try and avoid those area's of your life. Sometime it is very hard. It depends on how much you care about yourself and your well being. You have to keep your "Tiggers" in check.

MsSky

The only cure for anxiety is The Linden Method. Do it, it worked for me and now I m 100%. After having it for 9 years of my life. And you are right the cure to anxiety is not paying attention to it, divert your mind always.

Lore26, You my friend are going in the right direction. Everyone has to realize that yes, their is medication out there. But it is what we call :Masking the symptoms:. We all expect these medications to be a magic wand for us, when the truth is, we ourselves need to do our part too. Between both, we are able to keep our quality of life in check. We just cant set by and expect our medication to do all the work for us.

Bravo! Keep up the good work and you will fell better for it.

Hugs,
MsSky

someone said a 20 minute walk is as good as a prozac

while I am walking I think better and calm down

I disover which things I an believing are over stated or untrue

Diverting is like masking, it helps but is no cure. Linden's method is simply more expensive packaging of CBT. He took from cbt and called it his own. But if he's now telling you to divert rather than deal with the anxiety and realize that it is the phallicies in your thinking that cause anxiety he's doing you and everyone else a disservice. You need to confront the anxiety and realize that it is there because you are not processing things realistically and therefore causing anxiety and then you will naturally not have to pay attention to it because it disappears.

[/quote]Everyone has to realize that yes, their is medication out there. But it is what we call :Masking the symptoms:. We all expect these medications to be a magic wand for us, when the truth is, we ourselves need to do our part too. Between both, we are able to keep our quality of life in check. We just cant set by and expect our medication to do all the work for us.

MsSky[/quote]

This is so right on the money! I felt this way for years to my own detriment and finally when I combined cbt with my meds did I heal myself and eventually get off of all meds. GREAT POST MsSky

I totally agree! Great advice and the tea form exercise is awesome

Hey John R I have not heard from you recently? I hope you are doing well. Life is just grand for me and I appreciate all of your support and advice

Sorry Cece I have just been really busy with life. I'll try and check in more often though. How have you been doing?

What a nice surprise to hear back from you Johnr I hope busy means well too. Honestly I have not been posting much here myself and will try and be better about it. Sometimes it is hard to find time when you are feeling good...some irony there huh? Take care!

i would say try try to rationalise your fear. worked for me. i had an anxiety about crowed rooms so as you can imagine morining assembly became a nightmare. but one day i just decided to face up to the challenge.
just think to yourself 'what am i scared about?!' concentrate on slowing your heart rate. im fine now

Hi Cece, Just posted back to you on another thread. Glad you are doing well and I totally get the irony about feeling too good to post. makes sense though and I'm glad you're doing well! keep in touch when you can.

Facing your fears and putting things back into perspective is what cbt is all about. Good job inexcessive.
Hey Johnr I have been feeling so good this is my first time back here in about 6 months and that's after I said I'd try to post more often...oops!

It's been longer than six months since my last posts so don't feel badly Cece. I have been feeling good but main reason I have not posted is because I have been crazy busy.

I'm back trying to post more often this year and help others get better. Good to see you posting positive notes again too

The more the merrier as far as helpful and encouraging posts so keep up the good work Cece!

I agree but it would be nice if some newer members joined in too sigh!

Obviously... Join in people. Life is too short to wallow and stay stuck where you are. Did all the people with positive story's leave once they felt better?
CBT works people if you work at it!