Cure Panic Attacks With Positive Thinking
Treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), despite being difficult, can be successful. To be successful, though, you need to adhere to a few simple guidelines. The first guideline you need to stick to is to surround yourself with recovery. This is probably a new concept for you, but don’t worry – in a while I’ll explain what this concept involves, and you’ll see it’s not hard at all.
To fully understand “surrounding yourself with recovery” we need to look at its opposite: “surrounding yourself with negativity.” “Surrounding yourself with negativity” is when most of your time is spent on the negative aspects of your generalized anxiety disorder: being around other people with anxiety problems, visiting forums and websites about anxiety, reading books on how to overcome your anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety loop that it’s impossible to break away from. You begin feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be awful; it’s difficult enough just dealing with your own problems. When this occurs, this is a classic case of surrounding yourself with total negativity. You don’t want to be in a position like this, because it can single-handedly prevent all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
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 easy: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you begin doing the opposite.
So rather than being around others who are suffering with anxiety and panic, hang around with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but discovered a way to beat it. Rather than hanging out at message boards full of people with anxiety, hunt down forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way past them.
Instead of reading books that concentrate on how to beat your anxiety, read books written by people who’ve already had anxiety and overcome it. These simple things will get you away from “surrounding yourself with negativity” and take you into the land of “surrounding yourself with recovery.” You’ll be in immediately better shape, and immediately put yourself on a much more healthy path that leads towards beating anxiety for good.
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.