Feeling better

Hope7 · Post by **Hope7** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:07 pm

Feeling better because of meds. Thank you!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:04 pm

Relapses happen to everyone some time or another, the4 important thing to remember is to realize you have been in a better place before this and you will get there again. Just give yourself permission to feel the feelings.

I myself today had a panic attack sneak up on me and I undersstand what you are feeling. GOing for a walk helps me to clear my mind.

I hope this helps.

jessanxious · Post by **jessanxious** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:53 pm

Hope 7 I can really relate to that feeling. The losing control fear was what my anxiety has always circled around. So you are not alone. When did the panic start again? Was there anything that started it or was it one of the pesky out of the blue annoying panics? I am sooooo sorry you are feeling that way. I will say a prayer for you and will continue to. Take comfort in knowing these feelings dont last forever. Try using allllllllll your techniques and remember this is just anxiety. You are not nor will go crazy. These all scary scary feelings but that is all they are is feelings. (VERY FRIGHTENING ONES) I am by no means trying to down play what you are feeling because I know how down right paralyzing they can be. I just want you to know and take comfort that you have done this before and you will do it again. Hang in there!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:00 pm

Think of relapses as something good..they are like tests to test the skills youve learned and as time goes by there will be less and less. I've obsesed about eating, my breathing...everything..and they all got bad at one point or another and I have gotten over it. Now, I had a few stressful situations that happened and it came back..the worry, everything.. but Im just going to right it through because I have been here before and I know that better days are possible if I ride it through...keep your head up..!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:16 pm

I just saw something on TV today from a doctor that studies how the brain works. Appearantly when info enters our brain, it reaches the emotional center first because that is what has kept us alert to danger. So we react automatically. Then AFTER that it reaches the logic part of the brain. We need to remind ourselves that these emotions are there for a reason...to protect our lives, but being humans we have to wait for the logic to kick in. And being the creative and "feeling" people that we are, we forget to let it get that far. I like to play a game to get me into my "logical brain"...I call it the "Spock (Star Trek) approuch". I write down only logic...take my feelings completely out of it. Even if I'm still feeling them, I seperate them from reality. Then I can see which is which and remind myself that the emotions are not reality. It's like looking at the world through colored glasses when you see it through your emotions. You're not seeing things the way they really are. I've pleasantly found that if I practice this enough it creates a new neural pathway in my brain which turns it into a habit...so I don't have to do it consciously anymore. My brain just does it, and I find myself more and more easily dismissing the emotions. Does this help anyone or sound crazy to you?