PreviewCloseThe Simple Approach To Stop Panic Atta
May 252010
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 understand 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 generally 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.
All these things have the potential to center your mind on your anxiety. Even worse, this can often lead to your taking all the weight on your own shoulders from the anxiety-related problems of others. That’s why surrounding yourself with negativity like this can be so damaging. In the worst cases, this negativity can totally stop all the progress you’re making in stopping your anxiety for good.
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.
Guess what? If you can stop doing these few things, you’ll no longer be surrounding yourself with negativity. So that’s half the battle won. But how do you then move onto surrounding yourself with recovery? The answer, thankfully, is simple: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you begin doing the opposite.
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 discovered a way to beat it. Rather than hanging out at message boards full of people with anxiety, hunt out forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way through them.
These things are simple, I know, but they work. Trust me. These things will lead you away from negativity and towards recovery.
We tend to get what we think of or focus on. So it makes sense to put all your energy and focus on people who’ve been where you are now and turned everything around.