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 get to grips with this new idea 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: being around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on living with anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get locked in an anxiety trap that it’s impossible to break free from. You begin feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be terrible; it’s difficult enough just dealing with your own problems. When this happens, this is a typical case of surrounding yourself with total negativity. You don’t want to be in a place like this, because it can single-handedly stop all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
So now you know what the idea of surrounding yourself with negativity is all about, now you need to know what surrounding yourself with recovery is all about. Really, at its core, this is about avoiding everything I mentioned just now. So no more talking to other people who also have anxiety problems at the moment, no more visiting forums full of people who are suffering with anxiety, and no more books that are focused solely on living with anxiety.
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 easy: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you start doing the opposite.
Instead of being around people who are suffering with anxiety problems of their own, surround yourself with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but have since recovered. Instead of studying forums and message boards that are full of people suffering with anxiety, visit forums and message boards that are full of people who’ve had generalized anxiety disorder and overcome it.
These things are simple, I know, but they work. Trust me. These things will lead you away from negativity and towards recovery.
People typically get what they think about and concentrate on, so putting all your energy into the people who were once where you are now but beat their problems has to be a good idea.
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