mystic3178
20-07-09, 00:17
Hi..
It appears I've been suffering for so long with anxiety that I can't remember exactly when it started but I know when I finally 'crashed' - a few days after St Paddy's day 2009 after a body recovery (Rescue Services). It wasn't any one thing that made me crash. it was the build up of all the wee small things that got blown out of all proportion all becasue I couldn't say 'No'.
I was the good auld dependible person that everyone could dump on, cry on etc until my body could take no more. When my councillor diagnosed 'burn out' due to stress, I was bewildered. Me.. stressed??? I didn't have time to be stressed. I also went to my doctor because I felt I was getting nowhere. I was still bewildered as to what was happening. He also diagnosed stress which was bringing on the anxiety attacks and proscribed betabloackers. I'm not sure whwter they did help or not but I'll air on caution and say there was a bit of relaxation but I still had these anxiety attacks which I didn't understand so googling my 'anxiety' I went.
There is so much out there about the problem that I am mystified as to why doctors don't seem to understand what is going on or ways of treating it.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I came across this site and reference to Dr Claire Weekes who seemed to be a leading authority on the condition. I amaned to acquire the mp3 audio files from a 'location' and have been listening to them over the past week and I have to say, as far as sceptics go, this is one cool dude who seems to know her stuff. I'm taking a guarded approach with this but from initial trials of her technique, things are looking good.
Over the past week, I've been listening to her saying 'Don't fight the thoughts, let them come - embrace them - loosen your body and let them come at you'
Jeezz, that's easier said than done - which she did admit too but I didn't want to keep feeling the way I did so I tried her technique. It took me a few days to put into practice what she way saying. How do I loosen my body and let these thought come in or overwelm me - they were scaring the liven daylights out of me and I felt kind of stupid doing that 'wobbly relax come on in and do your worst' routine. But, I managed to try the technique without feeling too stupid and I have to say, the past 2 days have been great. Okay, had a bit of a wobble today but that was to be expected.
So, having listened to the audio again, it seems the key to breaking the anxiety is to accept the thoughts no matter how horrible they are becasue the anxiety breeds on fear.
Its weird but i'm hopeful for the future. I do see a light at the end of the tunnel. Last night I went to a 50th birthday party after trying the technique and didn't feel the high level of anxiety I usually felt in social gatherings in case pager went off after. Felt a bit weird this morning when I knew I had to go to an inlaw dinner with relatives from another country and it was in a pub which is part of the agrophobia I have in relation to my rescue service work.(pub meant pager going of which put me on high state of alert which inroduced stress hence anxiety). I tried they technique again when the anxiety started to surface and low and behold, I was siting in the pub having my dinner with inlaws and relations. Yes, there was a wee bit of a strangeness there but no where near what I was usually experiencing and for one, I thought to myself, this is looking good.
Whether this works for everybody is open but I would definetly recommend trying it. Get a hold of the audio files and listen to them.
I just thought I would share this with people who are suffering and possibly still looking for help. I post updates as to how I am getting on.
Mystic3178
It appears I've been suffering for so long with anxiety that I can't remember exactly when it started but I know when I finally 'crashed' - a few days after St Paddy's day 2009 after a body recovery (Rescue Services). It wasn't any one thing that made me crash. it was the build up of all the wee small things that got blown out of all proportion all becasue I couldn't say 'No'.
I was the good auld dependible person that everyone could dump on, cry on etc until my body could take no more. When my councillor diagnosed 'burn out' due to stress, I was bewildered. Me.. stressed??? I didn't have time to be stressed. I also went to my doctor because I felt I was getting nowhere. I was still bewildered as to what was happening. He also diagnosed stress which was bringing on the anxiety attacks and proscribed betabloackers. I'm not sure whwter they did help or not but I'll air on caution and say there was a bit of relaxation but I still had these anxiety attacks which I didn't understand so googling my 'anxiety' I went.
There is so much out there about the problem that I am mystified as to why doctors don't seem to understand what is going on or ways of treating it.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I came across this site and reference to Dr Claire Weekes who seemed to be a leading authority on the condition. I amaned to acquire the mp3 audio files from a 'location' and have been listening to them over the past week and I have to say, as far as sceptics go, this is one cool dude who seems to know her stuff. I'm taking a guarded approach with this but from initial trials of her technique, things are looking good.
Over the past week, I've been listening to her saying 'Don't fight the thoughts, let them come - embrace them - loosen your body and let them come at you'
Jeezz, that's easier said than done - which she did admit too but I didn't want to keep feeling the way I did so I tried her technique. It took me a few days to put into practice what she way saying. How do I loosen my body and let these thought come in or overwelm me - they were scaring the liven daylights out of me and I felt kind of stupid doing that 'wobbly relax come on in and do your worst' routine. But, I managed to try the technique without feeling too stupid and I have to say, the past 2 days have been great. Okay, had a bit of a wobble today but that was to be expected.
So, having listened to the audio again, it seems the key to breaking the anxiety is to accept the thoughts no matter how horrible they are becasue the anxiety breeds on fear.
Its weird but i'm hopeful for the future. I do see a light at the end of the tunnel. Last night I went to a 50th birthday party after trying the technique and didn't feel the high level of anxiety I usually felt in social gatherings in case pager went off after. Felt a bit weird this morning when I knew I had to go to an inlaw dinner with relatives from another country and it was in a pub which is part of the agrophobia I have in relation to my rescue service work.(pub meant pager going of which put me on high state of alert which inroduced stress hence anxiety). I tried they technique again when the anxiety started to surface and low and behold, I was siting in the pub having my dinner with inlaws and relations. Yes, there was a wee bit of a strangeness there but no where near what I was usually experiencing and for one, I thought to myself, this is looking good.
Whether this works for everybody is open but I would definetly recommend trying it. Get a hold of the audio files and listen to them.
I just thought I would share this with people who are suffering and possibly still looking for help. I post updates as to how I am getting on.
Mystic3178