Middle name "Fear" and "Anxiety"

[natalie1212]

I believe I've always been a nervous person but about 5 years ago I started feeling extra worried and anxious sometimes for no real reason i decided to go to the doctor whom told me I am severly depressed, suffer from PTSD, have a anxiety and panic disorder I've been confused more and more ever since that first visit well over time I search the internet over and over and over some more so much it seemed to bring on the panic attacks well I search home remedies and came across Yogi Kava Tea.....Feel almost like myself almost.I'm working on getting that crippling panic attack I had a few months ago the worse one the one that has me afraid to go outside out the back of my mind if I could erease that i believe I could go back to living a normal fear free life,,,I humbly ask Father God to guide me In Jesus Name I pray and I Thank you Father

[Jeff1943]

Natalie1212, something happened some time ago to sensitise your nerves. Maybe it was whatever caused the PTSD. That was some time ago but now the oversensitivity of your nervous system is being maintained by fear and the fear of fear. Searching the internet on medical matters can be a frightening experience. We end up convincing ourselves we have all sorts of serious conditions.

Or to be more precise, our high anxiety convinces us because when our nerves are in an oversensitive state every ache and worry becomes magnified tenfold.

A panic attack is a common symptom of anxiety disorder. You say you had one a few months ago and it affected you badly, so badly you don't like going outside. It has made you even more fearful than ever as you anticipate a further panic attack.

Natalie, fear is the enemy of everyone with anxiety and it is a vicious circle: the anxiety causes symptoms which causes fear which causes more symptoms which causes more fear and so on ad infinitum. You are frightening yourself half to death on a daily basis, flooding your nervous system with fear and stress hormones. You are not alone, everybody on this forum has done it.

The path to recovery depends entirely on freeing ourself from fear. We must lose our fear of all the symptoms that aflict us, we must learn to lose our fear of panic attacks and all the other bad feelings whatever they may be.

Because when we fear no more we no longer generate those fear hormones that maintain our nervous systems in that oversensitive state and our nerves recover and we regain our quiet mind.

Natalie there are several ways to recover our quiet mind, some take medications, some find help in face to face talking therapy. Your doctir can advise you. But others find recovery through self-help methods and the greatest of these in my opinion is the acceptance method first expounded 50 years ago by Doctor Claire Weekes.

If we can frame our mind to accept all the bad feelings for the time being, to accept them calmly and without adding second fear to the flash of first fear, then through this acceptance we stop frightening ourself to death and with time our nerves recover. Because we cannot accept the symptoms of anxiety and fear them at the same time.

I have said that searching the internet for answers to anxiety disorder or health anxiety problems usually leads us into believing we have all kinds of irreversible and terminal illnesses. One of the few exceptions is this forum where by reading the postings of others you can learn how acceptance can lead to recovery. Not today, not tomorrow, maybe not even next week, but in the fullness of time.

You will discover how to lose that fear of a panic attack and recover your peace of mind once more. Peace at last. Peace at last. Peace at last.