I don't so much look at other people as often as I look at how I used to be... I'm just learning now from the program that anxiety has always been there, just not as apparent as now. I also had a lot of bad vices to deal w/ it. I used to drive out to Montauk w/ girlfriends or to NJ for a wedding. I used to drive w/ family down to FL for vacations and go out to dinner almost every night. I never even gave bathrooms or stomach sickness a second thought - never!! Since I've been going thru the program it is helping me realize that I'm going to be even better than I was before... so I try not to let my current limitations set me back too much b.c I'll be healed soon.
Although, it is hard to see my husband not have any issues w/ stress or anxiety. I always feel like I'm holding him back
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I used to feel like I held my family back too. Like they are so happy, and that I drag down on that happiness and that I was being selfish not letting them be the fun people they are. However, since starting this program I have realized that previously when I thought that my husband doesn't have any issues, he does. He has anxiety issues concerning his job, sleeping in the house alone, and whether or not my panic attacks are ever going to become controllable. I found out thou that the difference between his happiness and what I saw as my miserableness is not so much our different stressors it's how we each CHOOSE to look at things and interpret them. Also, I don't remember as of right now who posted about everyone having a problem with something, but it's absolutely TRUE. NO one is without some sort of problem or another. It's all in how we choose to deal and how we let it affect us. 