Starting Session 3...Does the program really work??

Boy Pepper · Post by **Boy Pepper** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:56 pm

Hi there, I'm new to the online community. I recently started the Combatting Stress and Depression Program program and now I am in session 3. I just wanted to ask all those that have used the program if it really changes your perspective as you progress through the program. I could really use some signs of hope. I feel all alone.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:02 am

Hi Boy Pepper! I'm in the middle of starting session 3 and I thought the same thing you did. I kept thinking that this is never going to work and I'm never going to get better. I started to realize after doing session 3 (which is my favorite) is that getting better isn't going to happen over night, these things take time and practice and if I keep being a negative thinker then of course it won't work. It all depends on how you react to the situation. On a side note yesterday when I went to work I went in with an open mind and used the "tools" that I am learned from session 2 and 3. I thought positive thoughts, smiled and talked to people that I never really talked to before, I felt really great! Until my boss called me in to her office to discuss some paper work that I had made a mistake on. She said it wasn't a big deal, it was only a little mistake that I need to watch out for next time. She then proceeded to tell me that she's very grateful for having me work for her and that I'm a great addition to the company. Usually the old me would focus on the negative and dwell on the mistake i made and beat myself up for such a stupid mistake BUT I told my self its no big deal. We learn from our mistakes and nobody is perfect, she gave me a compliment and that's what I should be proud of

and I was, it totally made my day a whole lot better.
So you see, with a positive mind and practice it is possible! Just hang in there and keep trying. What also helps me is writing in my journal and writing every thought I have.

I wish you the best!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:55 pm

I am in session 10 and i'm living proof this program works. back on may 22nd when I started this program I was a total wreck. I had bad depression and my anxiety and fears were through the roof. My biggest fear that I couldn't stop thinking about 24/7 was my fear of death and dying. It would keep me awake at nights and being scared of it all day long. With my depression I didn't want to leave my house and for a while I didn't. Also, I had to force myself to get up everyday and i would sleep most of the day. I was irritable and miserable to be around. I would ruin my day and everyone elses just so I could feel more depressed.

Now I haven't had any sign of depression for the past 3 months and my fears have disappeared and I feel great.

I went through the same thing you are going through. I questioned whether this program really works. The key session for me was session 3. The positive self talk alone made me do a complete 360 with my thinking and made my depression lessen immediately. Stay with this program and it will work for you. In order to succeed you should follow the program shedule on page 9 and do the lessons in your workbook along with the relaxation sessions. Also write in your journal. It helps you get your feelings out especially when you feel you cannot talk about them to other people. Good luck and hang in there. You can do it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:23 am

Here's another success story you can add on to as you reach out for help with the program.

Oh, here a quote I read once that made me think that things ain't as bad as I thought they were: I was sad because I had no shoes then I meet a man that had no FEET!

The following is from Personal Notes I made to myself 2-11-09.

I'm sitting at Jack In The Crack awaiting Max Cannon the creator of a synidicated comic strip called RED MEAT, to show up. But he doesn't. And my negative side goes: See You're just not worth his time. And so the reason I wanted this meeting was to see if he'd be willing to take up the chore of inking in my comic character:
MADAME X INCORPORATED. However since I've been practing with new sized Sharpie black and Brush pens I'm finding that maybe I don't really don't need him to do what I'm finding out I can do myself.

So I think I'm going to continue to ink in her adventures because it makes my happy. And this is a feeling that no drug can top. I've been looking into trying to ink differently since a good friend and colleage suggested that I needed to start experimenting with my line varations. Also too, I needed to do more spotting blacks in my final pieces. And guess what he was right. And now my art looks better and more professional because I was willing to listen to some criticism and then try something new. Another new factor added to MX Inc. is I've taken on an Editor in the name of Rich K. and he's allowed me to see that by slowing down the pace of the action in the comic we could wind up with a better product and since then I've been doing just that and the books, we're on #3 is coming out like gangbusters.

None of this could have occurred before I got through the the program course because I was still stuck in my thinking that I had to be the Lone Ranger to get things done MY WAY! Now I'm not trying to Feed this Hole inside my gut screaming at me to "FEED ME SYMORE, FEED ME!" Anymore!!!
My game plan has totally changed because I've changed! For the better I might say. I'm also in a Business Planning class thats allowing me, not some other business person who saids they can write a terrific Business Plan for 1K. And just give me something that reads like sterio instructions. Nope. I'm writting it so I can understand what I'm doing and why. Before the program I'd be hiding under the covers waiting for someone else to do it. So you see theirs no one who can do what I do or get the job done any wheres near as I can do it. So I'll keep moving in the direction I feel the Good Lord is leading me.
Thanx.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 12:53 am

Originally posted by Dominick:
I am in session 10 and i'm living proof this program works. back on may 22nd when I started this program I was a total wreck. I had bad depression and my anxiety and fears were through the roof. My biggest fear that I couldn't stop thinking about 24/7 was my fear of death and dying. It would keep me awake at nights and being scared of it all day long. With my depression I didn't want to leave my house and for a while I didn't. Also, I had to force myself to get up everyday and i would sleep most of the day. I was irritable and miserable to be around. I would ruin my day and everyone elses just so I could feel more depressed.

Now I haven't had any sign of depression for the past 3 months and my fears have disappeared and I feel great.

I went through the same thing you are going through. I questioned whether this program really works. The key session for me was session 3. The positive self talk alone made me do a complete 360 with my thinking and made my depression lessen immediately. Stay with this program and it will work for you. In order to succeed you should follow the program shedule on page 9 and do the lessons in your workbook along with the relaxation sessions. Also write in your journal. It helps you get your feelings out especially when you feel you cannot talk about them to other people. Good luck and hang in there. You can do it.

Wow. U R doing good. I am in the May group too. And, I am only on Session 6, just listening to the CDS, not even having done all the work in the workbook. I got discouraged and quit for awhile but that is why the online community is so important I read through the posts and read posts like yours so then I keep going.