Thanks for sharing with us and please do note all the great support and advice. The members are the key to your support and progression. Following the program and doing the homework is essential to progression and understanding anxiety.
Thanks for the reply and hello to both of you. I am looking forward to learning CBT and hope to control the issues I currently have before the snow ball runs too far down the hill and I truly appreciate you taking the time to say hello.
Contrary to popular belief alcohol which is a depressant and caffein which is an upper do not cause anxiety, they only trigger what is already an underlying condition. So it is best to give them up until the condition is dealt with. That or accept that they are triggers. I have wine and coffee but know some days they are a bad idea. But what CBT is about is changing thought patterns so that the anxiety can be dealt with in a sane and reasonable manner with the ultimate goal being a frame of mind where what little anxiety that is left has little control. Anxiety is normal as is panic. They are survival markers and should be only that. Indicators that there is something you should be concerned with and correct. They only become attacks when they become unreasonable and distorted. Again this is not due to the trigger but to how your mind deals with it which is why CBT works in the long run where medication doesn't. Medication can leave you in the right frame of mind to make CBT easier to understand and do.
It is impossible to never have anxiety unless your brain is mush but it is possible to have anxiety not control you and be a thing to fear.
Anxiety for me passes through my brain and is discarded as irrelevant if it is yet I am still open to slamming on the brakes
if needed. CBT allows me to see things for what they are, not what I imagine them to be. Therefore, no panic anymore.
If a bear was coming through my door would I panic, I would hope so because that is survival and normal.
Hello to all. I'm new to the panic center, but a long time sufferer looking for some help and feedback for the horrible anxiety I live with each day. Been having attacks for 20 plus years and most of the time its when I drink too much or get my chemicals out of balance, but overall I suffer greatly each and every day and want to complete the program and see what CBT can do for me. I sit here at my desk all day beating myself up and hypo monitoring myself waiting for anything to seem out of the norm so I can run upstairs and hide in the company bathroom where I have a thermometer, a blood pressure machine and my Iphone app to monitor my heart rate. This is my every day and it's pretty pathetic for the most part because I'm very active and healthy but for some reason think impending doom is right around the corner. Currently I take 40mg of Prozac, and 1mg of Klonopin at night and when I need it to get bye, but lately I've been eating them like Pacman. My legs don't stop bouncing at my desk and I usually feel like if I get up I might not make it back.
Any hoot, this is my everyday and I'm looking forward to hearing back from you all and getting to know you and this great program.
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