Anxiety and POSITIVE CHOICES Community Group
Learn the skills to conquer overwhelming anxiety from physical to emotional coping. We can choose how we feel and think, you just have to be willing to make those changes and commit to them.
Good morning!
I had a great, successful day yesterday. I hosted a bridal shower at my home without anxiety or fear. The few hours beforehand some "what if" thoughts tried to slip in and I just said, "STOP," and "SO WHAT?"
I can see being able to do things that have created panic.
I am reading "10 Simple Solutions to Panic" and from results of studies they mention we have a better chance of recovering if we do things that create anxiety & panic at least once a day for 2 weeks rather than once a week for 14 weeks. It says that we will build on the successes faster this way. It says we will probably experience anxiety but it should soon subside.
Also, another thing that it mentions that has been helpful to me is how we see success. Success doesn't have to mean that we went somewhere and didn't experience a panic attack or anxiety. It can be that we went, we stayed even though we were anxious; maybe that we retreated, regrouped, and returned.
I have been thinking I am a failure unless I am panic/anxiety free 100%. That's just not true.
Hope your day goes well.
Betsy
I had a great, successful day yesterday. I hosted a bridal shower at my home without anxiety or fear. The few hours beforehand some "what if" thoughts tried to slip in and I just said, "STOP," and "SO WHAT?"
I can see being able to do things that have created panic.
I am reading "10 Simple Solutions to Panic" and from results of studies they mention we have a better chance of recovering if we do things that create anxiety & panic at least once a day for 2 weeks rather than once a week for 14 weeks. It says that we will build on the successes faster this way. It says we will probably experience anxiety but it should soon subside.
Also, another thing that it mentions that has been helpful to me is how we see success. Success doesn't have to mean that we went somewhere and didn't experience a panic attack or anxiety. It can be that we went, we stayed even though we were anxious; maybe that we retreated, regrouped, and returned.
I have been thinking I am a failure unless I am panic/anxiety free 100%. That's just not true.
Hope your day goes well.
Betsy
today is day 4 of ashwagandha use. i felt a difference in the second day. then i looked on the internet and it actually can start working immediately. i don't think its the placebo effect b/c i didn't expect it to work for 3 weeks or so. but here's what's changed: i feel more energetic (not much yet but i feel like i am improving. yesterday i woke up at 6:30 and cleaned my house for 5 hours? what>??!?!?) here's the biggest evidence. i play a first person shooter game called call of duty 5. you play n the xbox 360 online against people all over the world. i just started playing it a week ago. when you kill 3 people, you get a recon plane. when you kill 5, you get artillery. i never really got recon planes and got artillery once. i always got killed way more times than i killed others. now that i am on ashwagandha, i have been getting recon planes a lot and i have gotten artillery about 20 times! so yesterday i got more artillery than i have gotten in the 4 days before that combined. incredible. i always get more kills than deaths now b/c i can focus on the game way more.
its only been a few days. its says online that it may take up to 3 weeks for it to work. i am so psyched!
chiari
i had a wonderful weekend!
it was hectic and busy! i never sat down unless one of my grandkids
said meme!!!
but, my son was so happy to be with his family and friends..
being together was so sweet to me..
iam pooped, but it was worth it all.
i cried after everyone left, but i think i was just that tired!
but,it was a happy tired!
bren