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[pratyaya_23]

Feeling so so so irritated.... felt like something is stuck in throat!! Its so irritating.... oscillating like pendulum between irritation n more irritation..... Want to yell yell so loud..... anger, want to break things just so frustrating this all is.... irritation, helplessness.... 😖😖😖😖😖

[pratyaya_23]

Sorry venting out here, but i knw noone else can understand this 🙇‍♀️🙈sorry if it upsets anyone

[Jeff1943]

Fear not, pratyaya_23, the symptom you describe, the feeling that something is stuck in your throat, is a very common symptom of anxiety disorder and people regularly report it here. It even has a name: globus hystericus. I had it once 30 years ago and ended up having a barium meal test in hospital. Of course they found nothing, it was my nervous system up to its usual tricks.

This reassured me and I stopped obsessing about it and a month or so later it suddenly dawned on me that the lump in the throat was gone and in fact hadn't bothered me for some time.

When you come to temporarily accept the symptoms of your anxiety disorder as of no real threat to your well being, despite how annoying they can be, then your recovery begins and eventually you will be troubled no more by these blips in your over sensitised nervous system.

[Odyssey in reply to Jeff1943]

Jeff, you are very wise. Acceptance is the answer. Once you accept it (depression, anxiety etc) then it loses it's power and then the tide recedes and you are well enough to start again,

[Jeff1943 in reply to Odyssey]

So right, Odyssey, you encapsulate the method devised by Claire Weekes, whose advocate I am: the "woman who cracked the anxiety code"!

[Isinatra in reply to Jeff1943]

I never had a problem accepting it when it was always reminding me it was there in one form or another. That kind of anxiety is pretty hard not to accept. No choice there but to alleviate what symptoms I could so I could get up every morning and put bread on the table, pay my bills and live. So I could function. It took many different methods to help me function that would change over the 50 years since I was first diagnosed. To this day, Im still accepting it, I know it won’t kill me, but just acceptance was never enough and never has been. We’re all different and assessment and treatment sometimes has to be tailored to the individual. One size does not fit all.

[Jeff1943 in reply to Isinatra]

Claire Weekes believed that everybody who understood and practiced her method could recover from anxiety disorder no matter how long and how deeply they have suffered. Was she right or wrong? That is not to say there are not other roads to recovery.David Barlow, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Boston University famously claimed that over the years her method allowed tens of millions of people to recover from anxiety disorder.

'Face. Accept. Float. Let time pass.'