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Hiya David, I know what you mean about it being hard to remember what it is like to feel good when you feel bad. Hang in there. I am glad to see you are taking such good care of yourself and that your wife is very supportive of you :) Anyway, keep us posted on how you are doing :) -Diva
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Thanks; One of the hardest things when going through a period of intense anxiety is that you sometimes cannot remember how it feels when you feel at your best. I'm working toward that. Stress can be one of the main causes of my anxiety, and I've had a bit of it lately. And yes, I do workout a lot and one of the things I am doing is changing my schedule a little. I am moving toward more yoga and less weights. Yoga is so revitalizing. I have bulked up quite a bit with the weights since January, but this also creates less flexability and more aches and pains. I know the change will help. I started Friday. I love both yoga and weight lifting, and also do plenty of cardio when I am in the mood. I am also studying for my fitness trainer certification still. I am about 2/3 of the way done with the 600 plus page training manual. It's just hard to concentrate on it sometimes when you have to read so much. Sometimes I have a hard time remembering something I just read. That's for obvious reasons. I have a very supportive wife and she knows I am trying my best. Thanks again for all the nice thoughts. David
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Hiya Wrestler. I just wanted to say hiya and my heart goes out to you, it really sucks when all of a sudden something like that happens. I am glad venting with us helps you. I find it hard too to always talk to my husband about my things since I do not want to burden him. But since I do talk to him a bit more about my stuff he feels, I don't know, less excluded I think. Although, the major venting, I still do here lol Anyway, I am sure you can get back to having great weeks again. I don't know if this will help you but I have taken to the habit lately as seeing setbacks as just another tiny bump in the road. I try not to see them as anything big, ugly or frightening. I find setbacks only have as much power over you as you give them. Anyway, I don't know if this makes sense to anybody but myself lol but I just thought I would share this with you in case it helped :) Anyway, hang in there and remember: This too shall pass! -Diva
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wrestler, We are always here to listen. It's okay to vent and have bad days. The important thing is to move forward and have more good days. If I am not mistaken, you work out right? This helped you in the past, so now that the weather is getting better, why not take it outdoors and use this to your advantage :) Josie _______________________________ The Panic Center Support Team.
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First post in about a month: I've had a really rough week. We're having work done on our house and there's a big mess in certain places. Last weekend my wife and I borrowed my father in law's van do run some errands that we could not do in a small car. My anxiety level seemed to increase during the day. I get stressed whenever other people are in our house working ir when our weekend gets interrupted. So, anyway; Monday at work I was listening to a politcal talk show on the Internet at work and heard them describing something awful that happened in and around the middle east. Then, all these bad thoughts starting racing in my head. It got caught in me just like other bad or good thoughts do because I have Obsessive Complusive Disorder. Because of my anxiety and depression symptoms, the OCD is often much worse. The week went on and thought of my own mortality and other anxious thoughts came upon me and stuck like glue. I know many of us get these thoughts or have pshycotic episodes. Even those of us who do not have a mean bone in our bodies. The world is so full of negativity these days and it's sometimes hard to tune most of it out. The thoughts then led me to have some depersonalization, again. That one seems to pop up like a guard against real thoughts. I thought I was done with all these bad thoughts and symptoms, at least for a while anyway. I had not posted in here in several weeks and I was doing very well. I hate these setbacks and I do not want to bring them up to my wife too often because I do not want to upset her. She has her own issues with the realities of life and death and gets very sad when thinking of things like that. Anyway, I just needed to vent.

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