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Hi MirandaLey, Congrats on the strides you've made through working the tools in this program. I can relate to your posts because I too had similair symptoms of anxiety (obsessive scary thinking) and asked myself the same questions your asking yourself. Realize right now you are sensitive to certain ...

Hey Mack,

The book is called The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns. Feel free to e-mail me through this site or directly at mikesc21@hotmail.com. God bless

Hey Mack, As per " How can you accept that all day you are going to have thoughts that are absurd?". The sooner I made peace with this symptom of anxiety the sooner these thoughts dissipated. Do I still get intrusive thoughts? Yes.The difference now is I couldn't tell you the last time I did. Helpin...

Hey Mack, I think we have exchanged posts before due to scary thoughts being one of my more challenging symptoms of anxiety. The source of your frustration lies in your statement "The truth will always be that I want them gone....". When elimination of scary thoughts is our goal we just set ourselve...

Hi Snowden26, In response to your question "How did you personally overcome them?" I guess a better question would be "how did I eliminate the feelings of anxiety, depression and frustration associated with these thoughts?" The problem isn't the thoughts...everyone human gets spontaneous, instrusive...

Hi Snowden26, I could help but respond to your post in that intrusive thoughts of which you described were one of my more challenging symptoms of anxiety. Through my journey with this symptom of anxiety I've learned alot and have eliminated the feelings of anxiety and depression associated with thes...

Hi Pookie4, Couldn't help respond to your post because because scary thought were one of my symptoms of anxiety. Through this program and utilizing alot of resources I successfully eliminated the feelings of despair, anxiety and depression associated with these thoughts. Through this experience I le...

Hey Mack,

Hang in there. Obsessive scary thoughts were one of my symptoms of anxiety. Their is a ton of evidence to spoort that everyone has obscure, spontaneous, unintended thoughts. How we respond is the key. Feel free to e-mail anytime for support. God bless.

Hey Jennifer,

Feel free to e-mail anytime for support.

Hey Jewel, As per "bad attack". Reality is no one is attacking us. We are just talking about our thought process at a heightend level. We have to say what me mean and mean what we say. Our brain doesn't know the difference. When we perceive anxiety as "attacking us.." we'll feel as though we are bei...