🤔 having a hard time figuring out why I can't accept my anxiety. I've had all the tests, I'm on medication, my brain knows what's up...my heart and chest are just determined to never let me get past this.
My symptoms the last couple of days have just about driven me insane! I just want relief from this madness. 
Hi Rosiemarie, have you read Dr. Claire Weekes' book on "Hope & Help for Your Nerves?"
It is all about acceptance being the key to anxiety. If you have read her book or listened to
her videos on YouTube, then I would say you need to practice what she preaches each and
every day. It's not a matter of using acceptance in the moment of panic.
Just as your cigarette smoking was a habit, so is anxiety. We learn to expect symptoms
everyday, it becomes the norm for us. That is unless we accept it as a lie from our brain.
It's all about retraining the brain to not fear by substituting positive thoughts for the
negative ones.
Medication and therapy are good but not the total answer. Sometimes we stay stuck
in a never ending fear begets fear state. First we must accept that anxiety cannot harm
us. They we are more than capable in going forward despite the symptoms that it gives us.
We need to find other methods/tools to help us take that first step. I use Meditation and
Deep Breathing. It has helped not only with anxiety but my agoraphobia.
What are your heart and chest saying to you? You say your brain understands..
We are here to help support you through our own experiences. We may not be doctors
but we understand and care and want to see you through this journey. 
xx
Thank you for the kind words! ♡
My chest and heart tell me I'm having a heart attack, nearly every day. I know it's not true, as those symptoms surfaced almost a year ago....that is just my strongest, most persistent anxiety symptom.
I try to keep busy so I don't sit and have time to think about it. I have a supportive husband, who has booked us a cruise in the fall (I think just to give me something positive to focus on).
And I do believe that fear begets fear, so I try my very best not to let chest pains and palpitations freak me out, like they did in the beginning.
I have managed to be e.r. visit free for over 6 months, so that's a plus!
(Coming up on a year without smoking, I'm hoping that somehow brings relief, if the two are correlated).
Rosiemarie,
I too quit smoking not too long ago, it will be 10 months for me on the 25th of this month and I too have had terrible anxiety throughout the quit. I had a few weeks around the 6th month mark where I felt like my old self but then all of a sudden the anxiety creeped back in with palpitations and now dizziness. The palpitations and the dizziness have made my anxiety worse, my doctor is checking me out but I have a feeling it will end up being anxiety related. I too struggle with accepting that I may have anxiety and it may have just been hidden by the smoking, however part of me feels it will calm done some still it is still part of the healing process. I’m sure you will continue to get better as time goes on and as you learn to better cope with these feelings. I’m rooting for both of us! Feel free to message me whenever you need someone to talk to! Best xo
Thank you! Hope your anxiety eases too!
Just knowing that we are here and understand is a little comfort. Have a good day.
It is! I have done much better since finding this forum, and knowing I always have someone to talk to, and understands. ♡
I understand exactly how you feel, well not exactly of course, I've also been round and round with doctors visits, er visits, and thankfully they haven't found anything... but still very very difficult to accept that its anxiety, and still having symptoms daily...
Dont know what the answers are, but it helps a bit to know that your not alone..
Hope you feel better
Hopefully you are feeling some better too! When I first started having panic attacks, I would get dizzy too. On the trip to my doctor's office (when he FINALLY gave me some medication), I was convinced I was having a heart attack, 7 year old in my back seat...it was all I could do to keep driving and NOT pull over and call for help.
Hang in there! We have to believe it will get better ♡
Acceptance 
Interesting article about the importance of acceptance
How does acceptance work? 
What is acceptance
Acceptance is key to overcoming anxiety. 
