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Trapped by Anxiety and Fear? - How To Find The Fun Again!
Have you ever felt like you
were trapped in a cycle of fear, something over which you thought you had no
control? You just felt fearful and anxious; your heart racing for no
apparent reason, a burning feeling in your spine, a churning in your stomach
and you just wanted your Doctor to give you a magic pill to solve it. Read
on to discover how to break free from the anxiety.
It all feels so physical doesn’t it? You can get a pill for a headache,
another physical pain, which most times works really well, so why not a pill
to take away anxiety and fear?
Well, of course, you may say there are plenty of pills. Tranquilizers,
particularly the benzodiazepines, of which Valium (diazepam) is one of the
most common, which can make you feel more relaxed. Unfortunately they wear
off and afterwards you are back where you started, perhaps also with a muzzy
head – great!
Anti-depressants, if you are lucky enough to find the right one for you
amongst the huge array of SSRIs, MAOIs, Tricyclics and others, can have a
dramatic effect on your mood and may well redress the brain chemistry
sufficiently for you to feel almost anxious free, and in some more acute
cases are a necessity.
However, does any body want to offer a guarantee on the side effects of
these drugs over long periods?
So what about life after drugs – nobody wants to be on drugs for the rest of
their lives, and anyway are these medications just treating the symptoms not
the cause?
Do you find yourself thinking a lot about your symptoms, what you are
feeling, and wondering why - trying to figure out what could be the cause,
perhaps some tumour, heart or other organ defect. Do you run the thoughts
around in your mind again and again? Anything negative you read in the
papers, hear on the radio or see on television that relates to how you feel,
do you immediately adopt it as a possibility? The answer is probably mostly
yes because you are on defence alert level 1 – constant fear. Everything and
anything is a possible threat.
How does that make you feel - more anxious, and more fearful? This fear loop
accelerates and expands until eventually something gives and more often this
only needs a further stressful trigger, such as a difficult journey to work
or a long queue at the supermarket, and it leads to a full blown anxiety or
panic attack.
This is a vicious loop caused by over-focusing on yourself and the fearful
symptoms you feel. Your nerves are already over-sensitised and by focusing
on negative and fearful things that is exactly how you will feel – more
fearful and anxious.
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Seems obvious doesn’t it? So why do we do it? We focus on all this negative
stuff to desperately try to understand a solution. The irony is that all
this negative thinking, or focus, on what is wrong is in itself keeping us
there. What you think about is what you feel.
So try this. Think about one of the most embarrassing things you can think
of that has happened to you. Did you ever say something about someone and
they were right behind you? Think about it now. Do feel like cringing at the
thought? You have recreated the thought in your mind and you relive the
awful embarrassment again. This is the same thing with anxiety. The more you
keep thinking about it the more you feel the symptoms of anxiety. For many
Anxiety sufferers they do this to such an extent they become so damn good at
it that they create the symptoms most of the time!
Now try thinking about one of the best moments of your life; a special love,
winning a sports event, gaining an award, or where other people complimented
you on an achievement. Recreate the thought and memory in your mind and run
it through like a movie in your mind’s eye.
How does that feel? Do you get the same sense of well being through your
body as you rethink about that happy event as if it had just happened? Do
you now feel more calm and relaxed?
So it’s important to keep in mind that what we think about has a huge impact
on what and how we feel.
All this time spent thinking about your symptoms, anxiety, what is wrong
with you, and when you may recover, is preventing time thinking about the
fun things in life you want to do and enjoy.
You may initially say that in the midst of anxiety, and possibly depression
as well, that you just don’t feel like thinking of fun. You aren’t in the
mood. Fun things just don’t appeal any more.
Well bear in mind that you have been 24/7 thinking negatively, so it may
take some effort at first to change your habits from thinking about anxiety
to thinking about fun. However, it probably took you some time of permanent
negative thinking to get you into this fear cycle you are experiencing.
So get to it and put the same effort into thinking about fun when ever a
negative thought pops into your mind. It’s OK to let your anxious symptoms
run along side, just don’t think about them, and don’t dwell on them. Accept
them and then think about fun.
Before long your anxiety will begin to ease. If you keep at this for a
sustained period you can look forward to a new dawn.
As you rise above the ruts created by the anxiety and into the daylight, you
will at last recover the zest for life and rediscover where all the fun had
gone.
James Warner
James Warner has written a Best-selling Guide on how to cure Anxiety and
Panic Attacks and is available to download instantly on this web site: WWW.CureAnxietyAndPanicAttacks.com
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