LIST YOUR SYMPTOMS & LAUGH (need feedback)

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:31 am

labourg, it feels good to write them down doesn't it, to get them in a list, and read them, is releasing, I have even taken my list and burned it, in effigy, to release them from me. It is not after all MY list it is a list of symptoms of how your body is reacting to your fears.
Now read your list and make each thing a positive, use your imagination, and lighten up.

GatorsRanxious2 you are right on, misery in time always becomes comedy. The Anxiety you are feeling is temporal, it is not real, reality is positive. fear is negative, so take each symptom and make it positive, learn from it. put then FUN in it. They do sound like a warning label for medicine, when I go to a new Dr. they give me a list of just how sick I could be, and I rejoice over all the None I can write there. I don't have polio, missing limbs, asma (not any more not since I took this cores. 

Turtle 1976; God Bless you, being a nurse is so difficult, let alone with out Anxiety. With those symptoms, I am surprised a MD. doesn't' want to give you estrogen replacement I had one tell me if I didn't have a hysterectomy, I would be dead in 6 months or less. I found it was all related to allergies brought on by mold rotting out my floor under my computer, thank God it finally gave way, I had been getting progressively sicker for years. and the MD. were going to do surgery. when it was allergy, I could have died or given myself a life time of medication, with that surgery and what comes with it. This course saved me from so much, by giving me the tools to grieve my losses, and see the LIGHT of my future. Joy came!

Cinny; I recognize where you are that sinus infection, knocked me low for quite a while then when the floor collapsed, I realized it was all allergies, and began to take command of getting rid of it. This cores gave me the strength, to do what I could, and forgive those things I couldn't do. I went to Knowthecause.com and started on the phase one diet, the first thing it healed was the sinus infection, then it lead me to other things that wold clear up my atmosphere, and my body from the toxins that had made me so sick. When you are in the midst of the symptoms, it is so hard to take control, and get out of the spiral that is taking you down with it. Lucinda knows, how this works, and she has so very well put together the answers in this cores. I will always be in debt to her for her courage to change what she could, for all of us. 
The lists are very important, but making them is only 1/2 the job, make them positive, you can always find something to learn from them, or do for them.
that today is my last. So if it is my last just what should I do on my last day? Dream about it, Or work it all out?
IBS IBS there is someting I can do about that, knowthecause phase one diet, there are recipes, that will make it interesting, and fun to do, I can do this for ME! because I count, I am important to my patients, my colleges , my family.
Stuttering I once met Mel Tillus, he stuttered so much he could hardly communicate, unless he sang when he sang you would never know he stuttered. I asked him why, he told me when he sang, he had a rhythm, and a smile, because singing made him happy. I was a teenager then, but as a mother I had to deal with my son's stuttering. I remembered Mel, and taught my son to sing, he had no natural rhythm even thought he loves to sing, he can not dance. he can't relax that much, but he no longer stutters, and he is relaxed enough to be a Federal Range Specialist, and teach the world to take care of the land, I have heard people come out of his lectures admiring how he can make scientific jargon understandable to the conman man. Life has a rhythm, like breathing, when Lucinda tells you to breath, and listen to your breathing, it will give you your rhythm, you don't have to lean to sing.lol[/COLOR]
Dizzy/lightheartedness When I was a child, I loved to swing, because I would look at the clouds, and not the ground all the time I was in the air, I pretended I was a pilot. and the silence, and the sky was my play ground. then when I came to back earth I was dizzy and I felt as light as a feather. I love that feeling, I now I can have it any time, without swinging.
Slow down to the rhythm of your life and BE in every perfect moment, most of all, decide to enjoy it, for that is the secret to life. {8^)keep looking up!

fear not · Post by **fear not** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:37 am

Hello!Okay here's mine:Dizziness/off-balanced feeling,racy feeling,fear of fainting,fear of dying,fear of driving,fear of shower{weird one I know but I freak out in the shower everyday!],agoraphobia,very sensitive to hot weather.Wow I have got myself in a mess!LOL!!!

Amy1277 · Post by **Amy1277** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:13 am

here are my symptoms:

1. Fear of cancer (BIG ONE)
2. Sick to stomach
3. Chest pain
4. feel like I am not getting enough air
5. lightheded
6. Fear of being alone when I have an attack
7. Fear of going crazy
8. Fear of never being normal
9. Pounding heart
10. Waking up in the middle of the night
11. Restless leg
12. hypochondriac

If anyone has coping methods for the chest pains and breathing difficulties I would appreciate it. I know things get worse when I think about it..but how do you stop thinking about it...lol!?!?!

Flyer99 · Post by **Flyer99** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:23 pm

OK, I'll join in. These are my worst ones:
- Severe hypochondria
- Scared of having a heart attack
- Pains in chest and middle of back (been all checked out with perfect results)
- Flushing and hot flashes in face
- Cold feet and hands
- Fatigue as I don't sleep well
- Feel stressed out all the time
- Hate to make appointments (if I look at the calendar and see a whole bunch of appointments I freak out)
- Scared of the dentist
- Heart palpitations (again checked out and they are PVC's and nothing to be concerned about)
- Racing heart beat
- Scared to exercise in case I get more palpitations
- Scared of the shower
- Scared of snow storms (in case I can't get out of the house)
- Can't drive outside of the city
- Sometimes get ocular migraines (the aura without the headache)
- Scared to give a commitment to be somewhere at a certain time in case I can't
- Sensitivity to hot, humid weather (feel like I can't breathe)
- IBS-Diarreah
- Feeling that I just don't want to do anything, not motivated
- Lack of self-esteem (I think everyone is better than me)
- Can't fly (fear of flying)
- Inability to really relax
- Tend to be a shallow breather (need to work on breathing properly)

I'm sure there are some I forgot, but these are most of mine. I think the worst for me is when I have a pain. I keep thinking about and concentrating on the pain whereever it is and it seems to get worse. Then I start "googling" about the pain and say, "yep, that's what I have" even though it isn't. BUT, I am working on these, hoping to rid myself of them over time. And I try and stay positive. I firmly believe that you are (and get) what you think about. The mind can be our best friend or worst enemy.

Cheers all!

By Faith · Post by **By Faith** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:42 pm

listing my symptoms but really can't laugh but want to. Does anyone seem to have almost contstant aching on the rib cage area either on one side or both and then can move around to the bottom of your sides like beneath the rib cage area. Please let me know.

Thanks

By Faith

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:11 pm

Amy1277
I used the relaxation tape, until I memorized it! now even whey I get the least bit anxious about anything, I can just take a deep breath, and go to my happy place. it is instant now, I took this class in 06. It will happen just keep practicing

BookOfPsalms · Post by **BookOfPsalms** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:00 pm

COLOR:GREEN]Okay I guess I will go for it!!! WHY NOT?[/COLOR]

HERE GOES MY LOONNNNG LIST!

-Fear of going crazy

-Dizziness (in which I have started experiencing for the first time in MONTHS!)

-Heart racing

-Heart palpitations (at times)

-Spaciness

-Weird feelings in restaurants

-Fear of passing out (in which I just experienced a lady passing out in front of me at a restaurant last week!--that DID NOT help at all!!

)

-Fear of having a seizure (why? I have no idea, but the silly little "what if" comes to mind!)

-Upset stomach in the mornings

-Fear of dying with a terminal illness

-Fear that there is something really wrong with me medically that has not been found! (GEEZ...I have had millions of tests..and not yet has anything been located!

)

-Fear of losing my spouse over these silly anxiety-related episodes! (and he assures me that he is not going anywhere--tells me that nothing is wrong with me!)

-Fear of never been able to live life without thinking of anxiety or having anxiety arise!

-Fear of doing strenuous workouts or running, exercising etc. (had a panic attack at the gym and now I am afraid to even work out!

)

-Shortness of Breath (I sometimes feel as though I am not getting enough air-especially when I am really anxious)

NEW FEARS CHECK THIS OUT!!
-Fear of hot weather all of a sudden! (Summer is approaching and I fear going out in hot weather thinking...what if I pass out in the heat and have a heat stroke, or what if I can't breathe in the hot weather and die?)

-Fear of my sinuses/allergies (thinking what if my throat closes in on me from allergic reaction to the pollen or grass or something?

...and I take an allergy pill as needed, and have NEVER thought about any of this concerning my allergies!!)

I have been having sinus/allergy issues over the past 2 weeks, and whenever anything is out of whack, I find that the anxiety kicks in! I find that I get nervous about the illness, I worry, I tend to feel all these other symptoms and it just makes me feel awful! Glad I am not the only one dealing with this!

Let's keep praying one for the other!

Joesph · Post by **Joesph** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:08 am

I am confused, do I have a general anxiety disorder or not? My one and only symptom is a jittery stomach 24 hours a day. The only affect it has on me is that I can’t sleep, other than that I function great at work and everywhere else and I don’t feel anxious, I just have a jittery stomach.

I simply have a jittery stomach which presents it self as sleeping problem, I will fall asleep. but I can’t stay a sleep long than about an hour, which obviously make me sleep deprived the next day.

The doctor gave me xanax. I only use it at night (.5mg) when my jittery stomach won’t let me sleep. So is this anxiety? And if it is, how do I get rid of my all day long jittery stomach with out masking the symptom with medicine?

Thanks, Joe

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:14 am

Joesph;
I too did not think I had anxiety, most of my symptoms, were explainable, I was allergic to things, so what is just one more. and I had been told I had Cancer, so that made me feel my symptoms were explainable. SO I decided my daughter needed it, and I bought it, and my daughter needed it so badly she couldn't use it. it made her cry all the time, so she gave it back to me. SO I decided I would do it so I could help her I was in the 4th chapter, before I realized I did need it, I was not accepting the diagnoses, but Anxiety I had, and Depression I had too. I finished the cores and gained the tools I needed not only to help my daughter, but also to help myself. I have never regretted taking this course, now even 4 years later, I am still using those tools, and becoming a calmer, more together person day by day, 55 years of being anxious, is not something you can just put down in a month, or two.
Also the #1 selling product on the market today, is Antacids, people with jittery stomachs, take them, because there are so many of us. Those antacids, and other stomach remedies, are just masking an underlying problem, and that is usually Anxiety, our culture breeds it and makes allot of money on it. Lucinda talks about diet, and how it also plays a role in Anxiety, the S.tandared A.merican D.iet, plays a big role in our thinking, and reactions to Life in general.

ford · Post by **ford** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:07 am

I think I have them all.