Stop Panic Attacks With Positivity
When you need to treat generalized anxiety disorder, it can often be difficult to find a good option. But if you stick to some very basic rules, you can have wonderful success. The most important of these rules is to surround yourself with recovery instead of negativity. This might sound like a strange idea, but once I’ve explained the reasoning behind it, you’ll see why it makes sense.
To grasp this idea of surrounding yourself with recovery it’s essential that you first understand what is the opposite of this, and that’s the surrounding yourself with negativity bit. When you’re someone who surrounds yourself with negativity, you’ll generally spend a lot of time (online and offline) around people who have the same anxiety-related problems as you. You’ll also frequently read books and internet message boards that center on anxiety.
These things cause your mind to stay locked onto your anxiety disorder. Worse still, you’ll begin to feel the weight of other people’s anxiety problems as well, simply by spending time reading about or listening to their own stories of anxiety. This is “surrounding yourself with negativity,” and it can be extremely damaging. In some cases, it can completely stop your progress towards overcoming your anxiety related problems.
So if that’s “surrounding yourself with negativity,” what’s “surrounding yourself with recovery” and how is it different? It’s essentially avoiding everything that I outlined a moment ago: so stop talking to others who are suffering with anxiety right now, stop visiting online forums that focus solely on anxiety, and stop reading books that focus on your anxiety as it is right now.
Guess what? If you can stop doing these few things, you’ll no longer be surrounding yourself with negativity. So that’s half the battle won. But how do you then move onto surrounding yourself with recovery? The answer, thankfully, is simple: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you start doing the opposite.
Instead of being around people who are suffering with anxiety problems of their own, surround yourself with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but have since recovered. Instead of studying forums and message boards that are full of people suffering with anxiety, visit forums and message boards that are full of people who’ve had generalized anxiety disorder and overcome it.
These things are simple, I know, but they work. Trust me. These things will lead you away from negativity and towards recovery.
We tend to get what we think of or focus on. So it makes sense to put all your energy and focus on people who’ve been where you are now and turned everything around.