day 3 to my manic anxiety and panic attacks

[Knowone]

My diet is helping a lot, drinking lots of water, keeping myself busy with mechanical work, today I helped an old friend put together a mix-tape for his body building show that's on the 9th. If I have one word of advice for anyone who's read my previous posts. Please don't lock yourself away, do the things you love, things you enjoy. Use your hands, and just do, don't think. fight through the tired, fight through the anxious feeling. TALK TO SOMEONE IT REALLY HELPS. even if its here talking to yourself like I am now. I'm doing much better but I had to sit there and realize that I had to slow my role down, and take it 1 foot at a time.

[Emily16]

Thank you for sharing!! Love the advice.💕 Great reminder for me to go at my own pace which is slow and steady.🐢😜

[Knowone in reply to Emily16]

<3 One foot in front of the other.

[Jeff1943]

Anxiety is an imposter. Anxiety cannot send us insane, it cannot make us become disabled, it cannot kill us. No death certificate ever written has the cause of death as "anxiety". The power of anxiety is limited.

We are the ones who allow it to put our lives on hold. Anxiety makes every small fear or worry we have seem ten times worse. And we fall for it every time. We are filled with bewilderment and feel we have lost control. The more we fear, the more we fight, the more stress hormones we release to keep our jangled nerves in an oversensitised state.

It doesn't have to be that way. If you've been diagnosed with anxiety disorder (and the depression that comes out of anxiety) then you can recover.

If you feel overwhelmed and have family and work responsibilities then medications bring respite and are the right course to take. But they do not bring lasting cure and recovery.

Recovery from our demons comes when we adopt the right mental attitude. Instead of constantly fighting and obsessing and fearing the worst remind yourself the power of anxiety is limited and stop fighting. Fighting only brings more tension and stress. The right mental attitude brings less of those things allowing tired nerves to rest and recover.

If we accept for the moment all the symptoms and just carry on with our lives as normal as we can we can slay the beast. But it must be true and utter acceptance without imposing any deadline. The aim is to arrive at a mental state where it doesn't matter too much whether we feel the symptoms or not, we just get on with our day. As knowone says don't hide yourself away. Given time tired nerves recover and we regain our quiet mind.

It takes time and of course we always want an instant fix. This acceptance cannot offer. To begin with you may only be able to glimpse acceptance for a few minutes or even seconds. Build on this. Join the many thousands who have travelled the yellow brick road to recovery through acceptance.

It isn't easy, acceptance is hard. But great things are not easily won.

[Knowone in reply to Jeff1943]

Thank you for this, It's harder to realize these things alone.