Don't Stop Fighting

[Jrick34]

Hello everyone!!! Been awhile since my last post and I hope is everyone is doing great. My last setback sent me into a whirlwind and I honestly thought I wasn't going to be able to bounce back. Some nights I just got on here and to read posts to see how others handled their issues to see if it would help me. I was alone, fearful and full of self-pity. But I wasn't going to let it defeat me and I faced my issue head on while dealing my anxiety. It feels good, so good to know that even in your darkest hour, you have the strength to overcome your setbacks. Believe me, you are much greater than your issues. As always, I hope everyone that reads this has a wonderful day and Iam here for anyone who needs someone to talk to.

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

[Agora1]

Hey Jrick, I have always admired how optimistic you are even through the

most difficult times. I see you walking against the wind sometimes but you always

reach your destination. Nice to see you on site today. xx

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Thank you for this. I'm in a down cycle right now and unsure of how to proceed. But you give me encouragement to keep trying.

[NWGal]

You rock my friend!

[Jeff1943]

Surely fighting causes more tension and stress when our nerves need less not more of that?

Has anybody ever recovered from anxiety disorder by fighting it? Possibly, but I've never heard of any.

I believe untold millions have recovered from anxiety disorder by accepting it for the time being and refusing to fight it. If you agree to co-exist with your symptoms of anxiety (for the moment) you stop churning out the fear hormones that keep our nervous system in a permanent state of sensitisation.

So I recommend that for recovery you stop fighting, do nothing except to accept your symptoms 110% for as long as your nerves take to desensitise themselves from too much stress, worry and fighting.

If you must fight direct your efforts against those things in your life that have caused your anxiety disorder. These include toxic relationships, loss, disappointment, unresolved grief, shame, worry about someone in your family and a job you hate. Put those things right by all means and be ruthless in countering these causes of your suffering.

Once you learn to live with anxiety you'll be able to live without it - because by agreeing to accept it (for the time being) you stop fearing it. The symptoms of anxiety are uncomfortable but they cannot do you permanent harm either to your mind or body. The symptoms are only feelings caused by 'short circuits' in your nervous system: they will cease when you stop giving them the importance they don't deserve and when you agree to accept them (for the moment) without fear.

Embrace your symptoms, face them (as you rightly say) and pass through them every time rather than seeking to avoid them or go round them.

Welcome your symptoms as an opportunity to practice acceptance and to lose your fear of them. For it is only fear that keeps your symptoms alive: deprive them of that fear and they will wither and pass.