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This is a great thread.  I really want to thank everyone for the posts.  For me it started a long time ago at my last job.  though I'd lose it.  14 years later I was laid off.  Got a new job 3 years ago and frequently worry that I'm going to lose this one.  Every year I've gotten manager of the year and president's club, I chit chat with the CEO, have lunch with the head of HR but still worry.  When my wife doesn't text me with an I love you or only gives me a 1 word reply to mine, I freak out.  If she doesn't look happy, I freak out.  Just searched the other day putting my symptoms in a search, sweaty palms, pounding chest, fast breathing, shortness of breath, nausea (to the point I can't eat for most of the day), shakiness, twitching...it shot out anxiety attack/panic attack!

I don't want the drugs because I don't like feeling lethargic or dopy.  It hits almost every day between 10 and 2 usually and I struggle to get home, feeling like I can't drive straight on the freeway.  When I get home, I pop a few beers over the next few hours and it goes away...but then I go to bed, sleep really well for about 4 hours and wake up. 

I'm going to try some of the stuff I've read about here.  Keep the posts coming.  I've bookmarked the page and will continue to check

Bryan.


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Hi people I would like to write to you and say there are a few thing you can do to stop being as anxious.

1 exercise.

2 dont drink tea or coffee, caffeine is really bad for anxiety.

3 drink more water.

4 know you can change the way your mind thinks by doing different things.

I know its hard but it does work you can ask any questions you want I will help anybody with this condition.

I have had really bad anxiety and couldn't walk down the road without feeling really ill and now I can go out travel go to work.

ANXIETY 7 YEARS WITH NO MEDS

feel free to talk about it anad ask any questions you want I will help all I can..

bye for now

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Writing stuff down is a great first step and really helpful but to keep the anxiety from coming back you need to correct the fearful thoughts by countering them in a TEA form.
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I have heard a lot of good things about the TEA forms. What is the best way to learn them and start doing them. I am thinking about buying the book on CBT by Sam Obitz. Is that a good idea?
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Floatingalong wrote:

JR1 wrote:

Writing stuff down is a great first step and really helpful but to keep the anxiety from coming back you need to correct the fearful thoughts by countering them in a TEA form.


I have heard a lot of good things about the TEA forms. What is the best way to learn them and start doing them. I am thinking about buying the book on CBT by Sam Obitz. Is that a good idea?


Hi Floating,
That's a great starting point as the book is a simple intro to CBT and the TEA forms. They are pretty basic but it takes practice to tighten them up and get good at them and then you really benefit from them :)
Let me know if you have any other questions?
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If panic attacks wake you up from sleep or deprive you of sleep, if your anxiety interferes with getting out of the house, driving, or any other routine and benign behavior, then I would DEFINITELY go with a benzo and therapy. It's the best doctors have to offer at the moment, no stigma attached.In my younger years, benzos saved my life, and I mean literally. "All we need is to strong our will and battle against fears and anxiety" as quoted from earlier post sounds too much like pullin' on those old bootstraps until you can stand for yourself. That doesn't often work. Charles linden is just based on cognitive behavioral therapy and you buy his products--cds, dvds, etc. on line.. I preferred talking to a woman doctor for this part of treatment,
Things got better for me, on benzos and therapy. I'm now nearly normal. Don't listen to people who say "oh, deep breaths, yoga, meditate"-- those things don't help in the NOW. Long ago I tried suicide. But I lived, was hospitalized and got help. ( Beta blockers, for me, created worse symptoms.)
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I would agree that meds can help short term if you don't rely on them and work on CBT at the same time. The problem is many people take meds,feel a little better and settle for that. It's a trap I fell into for a long time before getting better and getting off all meds using the the TEA form exercise from CBT.

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I dont really know where to start for a good few years now ive been suffering panic attacks and severe anxiety, i was given inhalers which i hated because ive always been fit and did fitness degree at college, i think it was ever since i met a guy who was involved with a lot of dodgy people the police constantly smashed our doors in strip searched us said their looking for drugs they never found any as my family are all workers and wouldnt b so stupid, they once surrounded my jeep with guns & my son was in the car with me & they took us to police station and strip searched us once again never even asked any questions then took my iphone off me which i still havent got back, anyway i felt i was always paranoid as if we were being followed and watched all the time i felt i just couldnt handle this anymore i was once in hospital with pains in my chest and breathing problems, then went to docs & they gave me anti depressants which i never took as im not into being reliant on drugs, anyway i felt i overcame it eventually but at the end of 2012 i lost my 35yo cousin who was like my brother and 3 weeks later lost his mum my auntie who was like my 2nd mum and now i feel i cant sleep properly i always wake up feeling as if im shaking, i have major pains in my neck & head pins & needles in my hands & feet, needing my inhaler again , i think im going to die all the time im scared something serious is wrong with me too and i dont want my son growing up without me ive never been a weak person people have always looked at me as though im strong i think thats why i hate this feeling even more as if im not in control, and lately i just dont want to waken up bcos im dreaming of my loved ones ive lost it gives me comfort seeing them breathing and being able to talk to them instead of the last time i saw them both lying in a coffin so cold!! I just dont know what to do or who i should see regarding how im feeling does anyone know what i could do to help myself im 27 year old female with 2 year old son i run my own business with my partner & feel this will all go wrong because of how im feeling :( x
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anxiety all cums from d head im nly 17 believe it or nt i suffer from dis best way to get over it is not to let it beat u just say t ur self its anxiety and go ou amd do you and dont think about it for instance i go joggin do excerise to keep my mind of it thats helpin me recover
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Amazing insight for someone who is just 17! You may want to help yourself learn some anti-anxiety methods like the TEA form exercise from CBT to enhance the progress you have made already in dealing with your anxiety. Great job attacking the problem and not just treating the symptoms.
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