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I finished the program over a year ago and stopped taking Xanax then too. I'm doing ok. I still get episodes. They consist of anxious feelings and thoughts. I then become obsessed with these feelings or thoughts. Knock on wood no panic attacks. How long does it take a person to be recovered from this condition?

I think being recovered is not so much never having the syptoms, I beleive they will lessen in time, but I think it's more about coping with them. being "recovered" I beleive is being able to be aware of the anxiety, being able to tell yourself it's ok and moving threw it.
Instead of becoming "obsessed" with it you need to tell yourself it's ok, it's just anxiety it will pass. and maybe look into what is causing it and work on that to help that to not cause it again?
I don't know just thoughts. I'm only on session 7, so I don't really know for sure, but that's my take on it.

Recovery doesn't really exist. You can't get back everything you had before you had the condition, its just not possible. Recovery is like perfection its just this idea of a fixed level in which you work towards but can never achieve.

Instead of focusing on recovery why not focus on improving the positive traits and skills already within yourself because you will always have anxiety and you will always have the potential for obsessive thinking. The more positive you try to feel, the more positive you do feel and the less you will need the anxiety, and the obsessive thoughts because when it all comes down to it, the negative feelings are just messages that something is wrong and needs to change.


Mike

You don't really recover and you certainly don't want to rehabilitate, that's for knees and such when you get them back to where they were before an injury.

What you want to do is regenerate yourself and become a new person, removing the old character defects that held you back. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

I look at this program to assist me in becoming that new creation in Christ. Best wishes

Mike - I love your wording... That is very helpful, after seeing that question, I've been asking myself the same thing. I kind of said the same thing, but I just love your wording!!!

Mike:


You should write a book.
When you do, I will read it !


Lynda