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12 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2508

One thing I have been doing lately besides using the 10 questions list is seeing the fear for what it is..Yes I am afraid of some things and situations I have coming up in the near future..I acknowledge this feeling but I do not play into the fear, meaning I am not going to feed the fear with more anxious thoughts..I am not going to give into it encourage it or let it control me..The next thing I do is find something else to focus on..Something positive..Something to break the chain of anxious negative thoughts..Like reading a few pages out of a magazine, picking up a book, working on a hobby, going for a walk, watching a dvd, preparing something healthy to eat..the list goes on and on..I have only been doing this for about a week now and it was hard to do in the beginning but it is getting easier every day and it seems to be really helping me..

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12 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Hi M33

I thought I'd find more specific things at first, but it seems to vary. Generally, I'd fear situations where I'm being measured or judged. More specifically, I've found it's people who look like someone who I've had a bad experience with.

Our programme "playbook" gives us exposure as the solution I've used. It's not the programme, I find, it's just me.

I've had trouble processing the concepts, though, since learning itself is hard, often in "text" form. So I get help with drawings for me, since I can grasp the idea. My head is like a popcorn machine, and the kernels never stop, so there never seems to be progress, since everything is in the air.

I'm beginning to take my self more lightly, as GK Chesterton stated, so maybe I can fly like an angel too

12 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2606

Hello m33,

I would suggest that you continue to track your anxious thoughts. Put down as much as you can, fear level, situation, physical symptoms etc... Hopefully with time you be able to notice a pattern or tracking this will help bring clarity to the root/trigger.

Members, do you have any other suggestions/thoughts for m33?

12 years ago 0 +0 / -0 26

Hi Samantha. i have a question, or maybe more then one. when im doing my anxious thought forms and the panic forms, its sometime hard to figure out what thought triggered my panic or anxiety when i wake up in the morning. i wake up from a sleep with the shakes-tremors, nausea, and then the thought of having that, makes my anxiety even worse. see, i dont know if it was caused from a dream i had, that i cant remember or what its caused from. most of the time i will wake up that way, which catches me off guard and im not awake enough to think straight enough to deal with it. do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

12 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2606

Anxious thoughts are powerful and not easily controlled. Anxious thoughts are automatic and many people don’t even notice them. After some tracking of your panic symptoms, you will slowly become more familiar with your anxious thoughts. Over the next few weeks we will take a look at some common types of anxious thoughts. Join in and share how you control your anxious thoughts.

Fear Goggles:

When people are anxious or afraid they tend to only see things that confirm their anxious thoughts and not pay any attention to information that challenges their anxious thoughts. For example, people who are afraid of flying pay more attention to information about plane crashes than to information about how much safer flying is than driving a car or walking across the street. People who worry about having a heart attack pay more attention to changes in their heart rate than they do to the information from their family doctor or cardiologist. People who worry about public speaking only remember the things they thing they did wrong the last time. When you have “fear goggles” on it’s hard to see information that doesn’t confirm your fear and you are more likely to jump to conclusions.

Samantha, Health Educator

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