Your symptoms don’t matter.

[Jbro78]

Long story short. My anxiety started 20 years ago. A year and a half ago I discovered Claire Weekes. I read her book and gave it a shot. I asked a few questions of Jeff and Beevee. I watched that Anxiety guys YouTube videos which I highly recommend. And I also watched Wonderbro on YouTube. It’s a year and a half later and I feel like a different person. I’m on the road to recovery for sure. I still take Effexor. But my main focus is that I don’t care about my symptoms.

Long story short, try if you can to just accept all your symptoms. Don’t try and make them go away. Let them go away while you are still in the situation. It won’t happen overnight. I still deal with my symptoms and I’m still making mistakes where I’m taking them too seriously. But the first step for me was to let them be there. If you feel like you are going to faint, who cares. You feel nauseous, feeling of unreality, heart palpitations, numbness in your hands or feet, twitching eye, negative thoughts, weird thoughts, tightness in your neck etc etc. The symptoms don’t matter. And you have to feel them over and over again until your brain realizes it doesn’t need to send you adrenaline anymore.

There’s no trick. If you are still obsessed with whatever you are putting into your body ie tea, iron, magnesium, vitamins, caffeine etc. You are not there yet. There’s no quick fix. Unfortunately. But I’d say the first step is just simply to stop obsessing about your symptoms. They are a bluff. A ridiculously bad poker hand. But the problem is when you are in the midst of a particular symptom is feels soooooo real. But it’s not. It might take 5 minutes to go away. Sometimes my feeling of unreality takes days. That’s my main symptom if I had one. But I could care less. That’s when I try to do the opposite and rather than hide I make a conscious effort to do something.

Also, everyone is different so stop trying to compare your symptoms with others, if you can. It’s really hard. Claire weekes says in her book, and I’m paraphrasing, that you don’t have to meet each day as if it’s this huge thing you have to overcome. Face the symptoms. Don’t laugh at them, don’t attack them, don’t question them and definitely don’t fear them. They are normal. A normal reaction to fear. Go to work. Play with your kids, go to dinner, and if you have an attack, symptoms, just let them be there. And if they last for a while, just carry on. Eventually they will leave. But don’t try and make them leave. I think that’s big. Or at least it is for me.

The symptoms don’t matter.

Good luck!

And thanks to beevee and Jeff!

[Agora1]

Hey Jbro78, thank you for that positive post. It should be on everyone's fridge in their

home. We can't forget the power behind Dr. Weekes research. She laid out the foundation for us so that we can build a better future from there.

Make it a great day Jbro...I am truly happy for you.

[Jbro78 in reply to Agora1]

Thanks to you also for answering my questions sometime ago. I’m sorry I forgot to mention your name. Much appreciated.

[Agora1 in reply to Jbro78]

I'm a follower Jbro We all lean on the words of Jeff1943

and Beevee. We all contribute what we have learned through

our own experiences. Now you too are on the band wagon. Could

you ever have imagined that long ago??

Go Jbro, life has just begun x

[rannochuk]

Great post. I agree with it all, accepting the symptoms is a huge part of recovery. I don’t fight my attacks any more, in the end you always feel better.

[FindingMyselfxo]

Great post!

[Hidden]

Needed this today (: thank you

[Eualex]

Ok. But in case you are in a panic 24/7? How i must deal with that? How to go to dinner or anywhere else if i don't stay on my foot.? To me is no pause in anxiety, just different levels of panic and anxiety. I'm always on 6-7 on a scale from 1 to 10. I feel falling sensation when walking, buterrfly in my stomach or like a punch in my solar plex many times a day and that stops me to stay or to walk i only can( for a short period of time) to run or to do other things in such speed like i'm verry very hurry. So, what i have to do? It's anxiety or not?

[Jbro78 in reply to Eualex]

I’m not an expert but I think dealing with anxiety involves a leap of faith. So if you feel like your gonna fall over, keep walking until you do. And you probably won’t. If your afraid you are going to collapse than let the feeling be there. Don’t try and get rid of it. And gradually over time it will stop being there. What we’ve been doing to handle our anxiety, clearly it hasn’t been working, so why not try the opposite. Having said that, I’m not an expert. I experience dizziness all the time but I just keep living my life and it goes away.

[Eualex in reply to Jbro78]

Faith it's what i missing now. I'm even guilty of blasfemy due to of those symptoms. I used to be christian and pray every day but because i've spoken bad words to God. I know that is a nonsense but in those moments, i'm really dissapointed and i think i don't deserve that. I hope that God to forgive me for what i've done since i'm an anxiety person (4 years).

[Hidden]

Excellent post! Claire Weeks work was/is amazing!

[Hidden]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fallenwing]

Needed this positive post today, this was super helpful😊

[Beevee]

😊👍

[Jeff1943]

👍👍👍👍