Importance of learning acceptance

[NikeYrk]

Wanted to talk about the power of memory and how acceptance counteracts it. To make a long story short, my story is kind of unique I dealt with panic disorder 7 years ago, developed it and miraculously recovered all in 9 months, which I know isn’t common. I still don’t know how I was able to do it so fast but I did without therapy lol. At that time I didn’t completely understand acceptance, I will say I did know what my body was doing when I would feel all the uneasiness, because I had talked to someone at my church who thankfully told me straight up this is what and why you’re body is doing this, and not the whole faith over fear thing they try to push on you. I white knuckled a lot of my exposure which is the WRONG way to do it but eventually it stuck with my brain and I no longer was reacting to the anxiety I was feeling because I was taking the fear out of it. 3 years pass, within the 3 years I wasn’t dealing with the disorder, then one day memory crept in and something happened that occurred the first time I dealt with PD 3 years prior which sent me into a huge panic attack and being on edge for the rest of the day, within two weeks it broke me down to where I wanna back in the disorder. Now had I learned what true acceptance was I wouldn’t have spiraled into the disorder again. Which is the point I want to make that memory sometimes will creep in randomly but you don’t have to respond by knowing acceptance/floating you won’t have to go back into the disorder again like me. I’m living proof of seeing the other side of the anxiety disorder, it’s very possible. I’ve seen through panic attacks, I’ve seen through alll the symptoms.

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[Agora1]

NikeYrk, you are absolutely right in that these feelings may come back with

a vengeance. However, once you know how to accept anxiety as not life

threatening, you are able to reduce the feeling within moments w/o losing

your cool. It's the key to being back in control and not allowing anxiety

to hang around. Thanks so much for sharing your story. We all can benefit

from your experience. xx

[NikeYrk in reply to Agora1]

Yeah! It’s definitely been a crazy road, I even doubted I had PD when a therapist I went to two years into this second round of PD told me I had PTSD, which didn’t help much because the recovery we were doing wasn’t really helping my main issue which was just fear of fear. Wasn’t until this year I googled difference between PTSD and PD, and then realized I had been misdiagnosed, and ever since then I’ve been making so much progress because now I know what I’m doing and how to do it.