What has been helping the most with y...

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Sun, 10-16-2005 - 9:33am

What has been helping the most with your anxiety disorder ?



  • My meds
  • My doctor/therapist/counselor, etc .
  • My support group
  • My friends and family
  • This board
  • Facing my fears. Giving myself a push to move forward in life.
  • My alternatives, ie. yoga, meditation, hypnosis, exercise, etc.
  • Self help books, tapes, CD's, etc.
  • A combination of the above. Please feel free to share.
  • None of the above. I haven't found anything to work yet


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Sun, 10-16-2005 - 9:38am
In the past, meds & therapy worked the best. Nowadays, I get alot of help by giving myself a push & facing my fears. The support of this board gives me a tremendous advantage to get out there & try new experiences. Meditation, belly breathing & positive thoughts gets me through an actual panic attack. (((hugs))) jan

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Mon, 10-17-2005 - 9:14am

Prayer helps me the most. I also take Prozac 40 mg and I have Klonopin for really bad days. I had to take one yesterday. I had to leave church early because I was too jittery,

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Mon, 10-17-2005 - 10:19am

I still don't feel as though

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Mon, 10-17-2005 - 10:35am

Hi Heather. I know what you mean about having trouble accepting that all of your feelings and symptoms are just anxiety. I went through that for a very long time and still find myself questioning it and trying to make all these connections of what it could be. I did tons of research online and became very educated about it all, but need to just accept it I guess. It is just so hard to do.

Kim

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Registered: 01-17-2001
Mon, 10-17-2005 - 10:46am

Hey Kim,


I was just wondering how long it really took you to come to terms with it. I feel like a freak most of the time not being about to deal with it..


Thanks Kim

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Tue, 10-18-2005 - 12:19am
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Tue, 10-18-2005 - 2:50pm

Hey Heather. I would say it took me a good 8 months to accept that what I was experiencing was anxiety and not some terrible disease or the fact that I was literally going crazy in some regard. For the last 4 months, I have not questioned it as much. I still think about it from time to time and wonder how come it happenend when it did and I even start to think that just maybe it is something else still yet, but I quickly shrug it off to being anxiety and move on. It was very hard those first 8 months or so though. I would get extremely scared sometimes and totally break down and freak out thinking that I was really going insane or that something really bad was wrong. I have never been that scared of anything in my life before. It was unreal. I felt like I was a freak, like you said, and that no one could possibly have thier mind messed up like mine was and I felt like I was alone inside my own head in some kind of turmoil. I would tell my husband about it but NOTHING seemed to help for so long. Very scary.

Kim

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Fri, 10-21-2005 - 12:07am
Last bump before the archives:)

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