End Negativity And Stop Panic Attacks
June 3rd, 2010 | by admin |Treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), despite being tough, can be successful. To be successful, though, you need to adhere to a few simple guidelines. The first guideline you need to stick to is to surround yourself with recovery. This is probably a new idea for you, but don’t worry – in a while I’ll explain what this concept involves, and you’ll see it’s not complicated at all.
To get to grips with this new concept of surrounding yourself with recovery, you need to understand all about the opposite of what this is. The opposite to this is surrounding yourself with negativity. This includes all those things you do that are negative and inspired or controlled by your anxiety: hanging around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on living with 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.
Just stopping these things will solve your problem of “surrounding yourself with negativity.” But how do you “surround yourself with recovery?” Well, you just need to do the opposite of everything you’ve been doing until this point right now.
So rather than hanging around others 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 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 energy 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.