Stress Center Peer Support

10 years ago I found the program. I was 18 years old. I had lost my mother five years before that, but the wounds were still fresh. All of my caretakers had lost their bearings at the time of her death, as did I. What was once just a simple life with anxious tendencies had turned into a complete mental breakdown. I shook and cried in my room every night for six months after her death. I have never been the same. I have never felt the same peace that had once known before the panic disorder manifested itself fully. But, there are greater things than just peace. There is, for instance, sanity. The ability to breathe through your difficulties and deny the impulse to run. Clarity of mind is the true feeling that we, as anxiety sufferers, really need. We need compassion, direction, and structure. We are a rare breed. I will leave it at that.

When I first saw the commercial for the Combatting Stress and Depression Program Program on tv, I salivated a little. Of course, anything that could keep my mind off of my depression is of great significance to me at this point in my life. Imagine if that had been President Lincoln on that couch at two in the morning watching as the groundbreaking information that Lucinda and Dr. Fisher be laid before his eyes like the blueprint to a battle plan that will win any war. The war within the mind. I worked and reworked those exercises. I journaled and tracked my thoughts for years. I have boxes of books filled with my terrible suffering and eventual breakthroughs. This, my friend, is the program that you have before you. Forget about the symptoms and the mind games and do the one thing that you can for it, treat it. I still work the program today. I have added many things to the program from other books I have read over the years, but the principles in the program are sound and tailored for individual use. Same principles. Different people.

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I think that some perceive that there is no solution. Unfortunately, if people don't know its real doesn't mean it's not real. A sharp burst of adrenaline followed by the existential euphoria of coming down, fighting the urge to not give in, to not give up. Ans yet, the sufferer stands, Anxiety is, the me, the malfunction of the body. The constant adrenaline makes my mind race, and the racing mind creates negative feelings, which then begin to spiral. Sometimes it happens in stages, and sometimes it happens almost instantaneously. The point is, the accountability is the most important thing in recovery. There has to be somewhere to check in, somewhere to relate. This is what the program does. It creates rules for the disorder so that the ability to be productive doesn't fall apart on us.

"Falling apart" is really nothing more than just having too many emotions to deal with at once. It often has much less to do with your perception of the depth of the event or experience that causes the negative feelings as opposed to your own ability to accept what is happening is real and painful. The next thing to do is not to define it, but just to observe it and grow from there. Lucinda and the team did a great job on my set of tapes on keeping me informed and engaged. I urge anyone who wants to lay some order to the chaos and find a sense of healing, TRY THE PROGRAM.