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This is hoping for help. I am on session three and I CANNOT REPLACE MY THOUGHTS. I am anxious and fearful of my symptoms all day. My stomach hurts alot and I AM SO SCARED. wHAT DO YOU PEOPLE THINK. Am I just one of those people that will nver get better. Are there new people out there ? How are you doing, I am just getting more and more despondent and cry all the time. Please help.
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Replacing your thoughts is the hardest part of the program. Or at least it was for me. I am going through the program for the second time because I didn't finish it the first time. It helped me get to where I could funtion normally with the first 5 sessions so I quit. Now I want more and will finish the entire program. Just keep working on the program it will get better. But I am still having problems with thought replacement.
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Hoping for Help...I'm a veteran of the program as of 2 yrs ago.
1. Lesson 3: Write down all your negative thoughts in the workbook or a notebook and do it religiously, don't miss any of them for the first 3 days. I know sometimes we don't have a notebook handy but seriously carry one with you for 3 days in a row and write.
2. Now each time you have a negative thought, any kind, and have it written down, immediately change that one (1) thought to a positive comment.
Example...Negative thought: I'm Scared!!
Postive thought: I'm not scared - I'm smiling.
The quicker you retrain your brain/mind to go from a negative to a positive the faster the anxiety starts to leave.
Also, the first 3 to 5 weeks of the program 90% of us vets had a little more anxiety than we normally had, it's only natural. We are starting to regain our independence from anxiety and but the anxiety wants us to stay where we are. We get a little more anxiety because we for the first time are facing our fears and they WILL go away the more you practice this.
Put up a huge stop sign each time you have a negative thought, throw it up in your mind, change the negative thought to a positive one and move on.
Nowdays, I'm 95% anxiety free, I have normal anxiety like any other human being on this earth, but it took working this program harder than anything I've even done in my entire life but I did win the battle and the war and you can too. Everyone of you who reads this can be like me, but it does take work. No back sliding, no stopping and saying I can't do this, instead you have to keep moving forward all the time and don't look back.
Hope this helps...
David
1. Lesson 3: Write down all your negative thoughts in the workbook or a notebook and do it religiously, don't miss any of them for the first 3 days. I know sometimes we don't have a notebook handy but seriously carry one with you for 3 days in a row and write.
2. Now each time you have a negative thought, any kind, and have it written down, immediately change that one (1) thought to a positive comment.
Example...Negative thought: I'm Scared!!
Postive thought: I'm not scared - I'm smiling.
The quicker you retrain your brain/mind to go from a negative to a positive the faster the anxiety starts to leave.
Also, the first 3 to 5 weeks of the program 90% of us vets had a little more anxiety than we normally had, it's only natural. We are starting to regain our independence from anxiety and but the anxiety wants us to stay where we are. We get a little more anxiety because we for the first time are facing our fears and they WILL go away the more you practice this.
Put up a huge stop sign each time you have a negative thought, throw it up in your mind, change the negative thought to a positive one and move on.
Nowdays, I'm 95% anxiety free, I have normal anxiety like any other human being on this earth, but it took working this program harder than anything I've even done in my entire life but I did win the battle and the war and you can too. Everyone of you who reads this can be like me, but it does take work. No back sliding, no stopping and saying I can't do this, instead you have to keep moving forward all the time and don't look back.
Hope this helps...
David
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Hoping for help - You sound like I did. I went into counseling before my therapist suggested this program. I was crying constantly, shaky, sad, scared, you name it. My counselor told me to just free write anything that entered my mind. It felt very good to take it from my mind and put it on paper. I journal every night now - it has been over a year. When I look back at my journals from my "dark scary time" I cannot believe the fears that I had and how I let them take over my life. One of the tools I used after I free wrote was to list things that I was grateful for. At first it was really hard but it took my mind from focusing on my symptoms to thinking about what good things I had and ignored.
I also made index cards of positive affirmations to myself. Some examples: I am calm, I am peaceful, I am safe, I am normal, etc. and read them several times a day.
Continue with this program, I noticed my anxiety got worse in the beginning because I was truly working on it for the first time; but then I noticed I was feeling better. My last panic attack was July 4, 2008.
Good Luck
LisaLisa
I also made index cards of positive affirmations to myself. Some examples: I am calm, I am peaceful, I am safe, I am normal, etc. and read them several times a day.
Continue with this program, I noticed my anxiety got worse in the beginning because I was truly working on it for the first time; but then I noticed I was feeling better. My last panic attack was July 4, 2008.
Good Luck
LisaLisa
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