Time as therapy.

[anxiousa]

After hitting rock bottom with my anxiety, spending days & weeks in bed terrified I was dying of every disease possible.
I tried CBT & different meds but found none seemed to give me immediate relief.

Months passed, I had good weeks & bad, tought I was "cured" & is take a bad spell again. Eventually the good spells got longer, & what I really found helped was the experience & time that had passed from when my anxiety was rock bottom.

I would get palps, pains, dizzy spells, derealisation, & i would take a deep breath & think back to the time I had experienced all these before, I remembered how afraid I was & how SURE I was I had heart problems, cancer, brain tumours etc. but did I? No! Remembering that I have dealt with these things in the past, known and remembering how I felt & seeing that there was no way possible in the space of 3/4 months I could of bad 6 or 7 different deadly diseases. At the time I was so caught up in my world of anxiety I couldn't think straight, but I feel now I understand anxiety, know it better & from suffering the lows of it I am stronger. The time that passes between then & now where I haven't worried about dying has shown me that i do NOT have a deadly disease, I have anxiety. & it is anxiety that causes my symptoms.

Through time i have also learnt that I am not & probably will never be 100% anxiety free. But I can deal with that, there is times & triggers that I feel those horrible toughs and symptoms creeping back but with my past experience of them I deal with it.

This time last year I would say anxiety had taken over my life. I was a mess, but through time, & experience anxiety is now only a very small part of my life. & I can deal with it so much better.

This post is to tryb& encourage people to use there past experiences & time to help them!!!

Good luck x

[anxiousa]

Oh & i would like to add how I have noticed such a difference in myself over the past few months, I would never have stayed alone at home for fear I would drop dead & no1 would be there to help me, I would make excuses to go to the doctors every week or every second week. Now I work from home ALONE, a few weeks ago I had something wrong with me &! I put off going to docs for as long as possible instead of jumping at the idea, I was afraid to excercise incase I pushed my heart to far, now I attend gym 3 times a week

[kmwondering]

I'm so glad for your successes

[PinkIcePrincess]

Awesome !!
 Congrats and stay on the right track and the Positive thinking it sure makes a difference!!
 
  Thank you so much for posting so many can read this and know we can get better some it make take a little longer some a little shorter..
 We tend to read the Negative Post because we relate more with them and not feel so alone but the more Positive we read the more Positive we will become and heal knowing it is gonna be ok.
 Some of us do have some medical issues that are not Health Anxiety we do need to be check out by docs and have test ran and YOU did and found out you are really ok!! 
  Even with some medical issues we can still find some relief and have Hope and Faith we can do anything we set our minds too!
  Thanks again!
  PinkIcePrincess