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Anxiety is all that’s on my mind. It’s all consuming. I can’t escape it. I try to stop thinking about it. But I can’t it controls me I can’t feel anything. I can’t see anything. I can’t hear anything. All I can think about is the thing that is giving me anxiety. I get a pit In my stomach. All I want is relief. Then I get it. After all the pain that felt like forever, I black out. Left to dream of dying.
Anxiety does not need to be all consuming. It's a matter of learning all you
can about what it is and how it plays with our Mind/Body experiences.
One of the ways in learning how to accept and cope with anxiety is written
in a book by Dr. Claire Weekes, entitled "Hope & Help for Your Nerves".
It is written in a way where you may be surprised in finding yourself nodding
your head "yes" in all she says. Dr. Weekes, herself, suffered from anxiety events
and choose to help herself and her patients. Her book has been a long standing
helpful reference to those, including myself who have used this as my foundation
in winning over anxiety.
I'm happy to see you here with us. You will find support as you read about other's
life journey with this mental health issue. Stay positive, your life is about to change. 
xx
Hi there, just wanted to say thanks so much for recommending the book “Hope & Help for Your Nerves” written by Dr. Claire Weekes, I’ve decided to buy it today, as I suffer terribly from Depression and Anxiety 😢xx
Warrior, until you receive your book, you can see videos of Dr. Weekes on
YouTube, as well as following posts written by both Jeff1943 and Beevee who
like myself received the help we needed from her book. xx
Thankyou Agora1, I’ll be checking out YouTube later on, I’m glad u found help from this, u sound like a positive person? It’s rare I leave the house so i do try to find comfort from Self-help books or things online. x
Warrior50, I wasn't always positive, as quite the opposite comes with the
territory of Anxiety. But through therapy and self education, I've learned
in time to ironically become a "Warrior" per se. (you've got the right username
my friend). I've always been an avid reader of Dr. Claire Weekes. She became
my foundation in understanding what true acceptance of anxiety meant and
how much it is a part of the "key" to success.
Good Luck in reading her lifetime work. It has helped many along the years
and will continue to be the first step that works, Acceptance. xx
One problem is, trying to stop thinking about anxiety just makes it stronger. If you can try to accept it and allow it to be there, instead of struggling with it and trying to make it go away, you may see that it gets weaker.
Many of this user's posts helped me quite a lot:
What are you anxious about?
Try for a while to not think to yourself. Think to all people that is sick on this earth, with cancer, with chronic disease at lung, people that cannot breathe, cannot live, people that are very poor. Comparing with all of these your suffer is like a breeze. In the same time try to practice elements of yoga, specially relaxation Technic. Lay down on bad, try to relax first left leg, then right leg, then left hand, then right hand, then your head. Finally feel your body heavily. Concentrate your mind to feel entire body in the same time, legs, hands, head. Concentrate then your mind to imagine that you are in the middle of meadow with a lot of flowers with many smells and wind blows lightly. Somewhere is a spring with crystal water. The sky is deep blue and you feel lost in its infinity. Try to keep this feelings for 30 minutes. Your anxiety will disappears .
Hello abc30, if I’m honest I’m not quite sure how to take your “advice”?!
Telling me to stop thinking about myself, to think about all of the people in the world who have, for example, a chronic illness and that if I compare myself to them my suffering is like a breeze 🤢 Undermining a person’s illness, whether it’s a Mental Health or Physical Health illness I personally feel is closed minded. As well as having Depression and Anxiety I also have Trigeminal Neuralgia Type 2, it’s an excruciating condition which I’ve had for 15 years. 💜
We all have problems, and we all try to solve or live with them. You are the same. So have you ever seen a blind person helping to walk another blind person ?. I never seen or heard. So we are all blind here and you must not expect to much help, other then sweet words and common advises.
I thought the same at first too but actually thinking of all the ill people I saw in a emergency room visit for a panic attack helped me on the right track to overcome health anxiety, it put my mind Into a different perspective and helped me realize that I needed to trust the doctors that I was in good health! It helped me realize to not take my clean bill of health for granted, do I compare myself to others on a daily basis no that’s wrong to do that like you said it’s close minded but for that one night in the emergency room that I did do it it helped me tremendously to view my world a little bit different.
suffered really bad with it,it overlaid despair and depression, i tried cbd capsules 2 daily and they def helped, they are quite expensive,when will they be on prescription i wonder ciley
Anxiety sucks
Health Anxiety Sucks!!!
Not Smoking Lifestyle Sucks.
Decision making sucks...
GAD & depression suck!
