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I was on xanax for 2 years at 4mg per day. When it came time for me to come off the med my doctor weaned me off slowly. I went from 4mg per day for 1 week then 3mg per day for one week then 2mg, then 1mg then .50mg then .25mg , then stop. I didn't have any withdrawals during that time period but it ...

My Dad has been in the hospital for the past few weeks and he's not doing very well. The other day the hospital sent in student nurses to practice on him. When I got there I was pissed off. They were jabbing him over and over again trying to take a simple finger stick test for glucose but couldn't d...

I know this is not the same thing but I have a somewhat similar story. Before the anxiety program I was always looking towards my wife to make my anxiety go away and keep me happy at the sametime and in my mind that would make my life better. Truth is, I was still depressed and it was getting worse....

;) Lately I have been getting this one obseessive thought returning which for me is the fear of death. However, It doesn't really scare me anymore. It's more like a bothersome thought. Nevertheless, it still happens. I've been able to control it and make it go away quickly by telling this thought th...

:D Although I haven't had an obsessive thought in about a month this session is still very important to me. This session alone has made me feel that obsessive thoughts can't hurt me anymore. It gives you so many tools to defeat these fears such as using humor by thinking about your scary thought in ...

:D I have reached this session and my obsessive scary thoughts have stopped. That doesn't mean that this session is not important. In recovery from anxiety you can still have setbacks thus making every session important. To me you can never be prepared enough to combat anxiety. After all it's like b...

I don't think anxiety alone would push your blood pressure to such dangerous levels. I had major stress, anxiety and depression for years before this program came along and I too have high blood pressure and the highest spike for me was 150/100. Eating fast food and drinking coke even in small amoun...

:D Session 9 is in the books for me. I learned more valuable techniques for handling worry and guilt. All of my guilt was from the past. I learned to forgive myself for it. My guilt was due to things I didn't do in the past either for myself or someone else. I know now that it was the anxiety that p...

:) Most days now I've been feeling great but every now and then I get the feeling like everything I accomplished is going to be lost and I'm going to go back to the way things were before this program. I'm able to float through most of it but I still get that uneasy feeling especially when I have a ...

If you're getting the heart racing and other types of anxious feelings while you're listening to the tapes then it's probably your anxiety . It's is very common to experience anxiety through this program especially in the beginning. After all you're taking on something new which can be scary. If you...