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The only thing limiting about this are your thoughts. Trembling legs will still get you where you're going. honeydew is doing this to herself. Emilie hit the nail on the head. I love me some Dr. Weekes. She understood us more than we do.

It made you have more panic attacks because you didn't face it, you ran away in panic. It was too scary for you. You started adding thoughts like, "What if it makes me go crazy?" "What if I end up doing it?" Until you ended up in such a sensitized state, you felt like you were no longer in control ...

Although, I appreciate your insight, I respectfully disagree. Telling yourself to stop thinking about the outcome or to stop any kind of thought, is sending your body the wrong message.

Congratulations, you have just made this thought important enough to try to avoid or try to change. You have ...

Let it overwhelm you, let it come, go toward it, let it have it's way with you, let it "kill" you, whatever you think it's going to do. Then, the truth will start to come out about this monster you've created.

The feelings do not turn into the thought that you're losing your mind. You add this yourself. By constantly testing your mental state and trying so hard to get back where "you used to be."

The thought always comes back because you have placed such significance and fear to the thought. How could ...

I just have something else to add. To believe that there is some deep-seated cause for these thoughts is to say the least, ridiculous. It doesn't matter if you had a bad childhood, or if your Mother wasn't nice to you. Do NOT search for some deep-seated cause, you're only keeping yourself ill ...

Merry Christmas to you, Vikings.

As someone who has experienced the same thoughts you're referring to.

The key here is not to wrestle these thoughts, whatsoever. Let them be, let them come, let the feelings come, of course they're going to be intense. You hate this thought so much, how can you ...

These thoughts aren't scary to you, but they sure disturb you. Having a song play over and over in your head is totally normal. It happens to us all, even people without anxiety/OCD/panic. You'll notice it happens more when you're tired or haven't gotten enough sleep/rest or nutrition. When your ...

Unreality/bewilderment is so common with anxiety, especially during early stages of recovery. Feelings are just that, feelings of no great medical significance. I still get occasional feelings of unreality. I accept them and go about my business. Let it be as bad as it wants to be and stop adding ...

Obsessive thoughts. Oh, how lovely they are. If it's not about medication and side effects, it's about going crazy, or having something unknown wrong with you, afraid you'll lose your mind. If you weren't so sensitized at this moment to your own thoughts. You would see how irrational they are. When ...