The Simple Approach To Stop Panic Attacks
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 fully understand “surrounding yourself with recovery” we need to look at its opposite: “surrounding yourself with negativity.” “Surrounding yourself with negativity” is when most of your time is spent on the negative aspects of your generalized anxiety disorder: being around other people with anxiety problems, visiting forums and websites about anxiety, reading books on how to overcome your anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety trap that it’s hard to break free from. You start 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 classic case of surrounding yourself with complete negativity. You don’t want to be in a place like this, because it can single-handedly prevent all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
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 people 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 forums full of people with anxiety, hunt out forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way past them.
Rather than studying books that concentrate on how to stop your anxiety, choose books that were written by people who actually lived with the problems themselves and found a way to overcome it. This fool proof approach will quickly lead you away from surrounding yourself with negativity and lead you towards surrounding yourself with recovery. Very quickly indeed you’ll be in much better mental shape.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our energy thinking about and focusing on. So when you start 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.