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I generally try to just get caught up in something, whether that be a book, TV, Movie, Internet, anything to distract myself

I thought I would tell my story because I know when I was at my lowest I loved to read the stories in this section because when your in the black hole it feels like you can never claw yourself out but believe me you can. I think my troubles with anxiety started about 10 years ago now, I can't rememb...

I get this to, I put it down to an over reactive sympathetic nervous system. I've been to hospitals etc but they have ran tests and can never bring it on, I've had an ecg which shows nothing, it baffles them

As a parent myself I understand why my parents brought me up to believe a fairy tale however I don't think I will be taking the same path with my children. I don't know about yours but my parents always brought me up to see the good in people, to see the good in the world, good things happen to good...

I've put this off as long as I could in my life, but next week I am taking a plane trip to go to a concert, I am really nervous, its only a short trip about 1hr max but its in one of them little crappy planes, I'm worried about the confined space, about making a fool of myself or something. HELP???

I wonder do any of you's suffer from this or indeed have a cure? I will explain what it is to clarify, I'm no psychologist so bear with me The Sympathetic Nervous System controls the fight or flight response in an anxiety disorder, so say for instance you walk into a supermarket, its packed, the bra...

It took a while to build up the courage but today I tried, problem has been with no assertiveness I generally got walked over at work, I got all the rubbish jobs no one else wanted to do and had to do others work as well because they didn't pull there weight. Well today I tackled my line manager, he...

This is a fairly recent development for me, maybe in the last 6-12 months, I've been through the whole panic attack phase and am a hell of alot better than I was, I don't avoid things anymore and can pretty much do anything now but this blushing is getting to me. On Friday I had the dentist, no one ...

Anxiety and the depression etc that comes with it can be horrible, Do you have bad habits in order to make yourself feel better about life? I'll explain what I mean, I have a few, A major one for me would be over spending, If I'm feeling down I buy stuff I don't need online, then I feel all guilty a...

I was doing well in session 3, but can't see the positive in this situation, hopefully you can help, its like in the tape when they talk about a woman driving to the doctors and made a wrong turn and beat herself up, she couldn't see the positive, well neither can I in this situation. This morning a...