Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder can often be totally successful, but only if you stick to some basic, sensible guidelines. The first of these fundamental guidelines that should always be followed is to “surround yourself with recovery.” The idea of “surrounding yourself with recovery” is probably pretty new for you, but in a moment you’ll fully understand this idea, and more importantly, you’ll understand how to stick to this fundamental guideline and cause your recovery to go into overdrive.
To grasp this idea of surrounding yourself with recovery it’s essential that you first understand what is the opposite of this, and that’s the surrounding yourself with negativity part. When you’re someone who surrounds yourself with negativity, you’ll typically spend a lot of time (online and offline) around people who have the same anxiety-related problems as you. You’ll also frequently read books and internet message boards that center on anxiety.
These things cause your mind to stay locked onto your anxiety disorder. Worse still, you’ll begin to feel the weight of other people’s anxiety problems as well, simply by spending time reading about or listening to their own stories of anxiety. This is “surrounding yourself with negativity,” and it can be extremely damaging. In some cases, it can completely stop your progress towards overcoming your anxiety related problems.
So if that’s “surrounding yourself with negativity,” what’s “surrounding yourself with recovery” and how is it different? It’s essentially avoiding everything that I outlined a moment ago: so stop talking to others who are suffering with anxiety right now, stop visiting online forums that focus solely on anxiety, and stop reading books that focus on your anxiety as it is right now.
If you do nothing but end these basic things, the problem of surrounding yourself with negativity will quickly become history. But once you’ve achieved that, how do you go about surrounding yourself with recovery? Simple: you just do the opposite of what you’ve been doing up until now.
So rather than being around people who are suffering with anxiety and panic, hang around with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but found a way to beat it. Rather than hanging out at forums full of people with anxiety, hunt down forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way past them.
Instead of reading books that concentrate on how to beat your anxiety, read books written by people who’ve already had anxiety and overcome it. These simple things will get you away from “surrounding yourself with negativity” and take you into the land of “surrounding yourself with recovery.” You’ll be in immediately better shape, and immediately put yourself on a much more healthy path that leads towards beating anxiety for good.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our time thinking about and focusing on. So when you begin spending your time on recovery instead of the negative things, you can’t help but start moving directly towards your goal of an anxiety free life.
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