Hi Faith,Originally posted by Faith_TX:You're not rambling. This is the one thing I haven't conquered yet. I'm good at calming down a panic attack now, but I'm still getting stressed and angry too easily and overreacting. Any tips on that?Originally posted by monty'smom:
I'm off all my meds, have been able to stop doing things I did in my past which was to overreact and get angry and stressed and then have a total attack. I feel anything coming on and now say STOP, THINK, BREATHE, RELAX...it's nothing to freak out about.
You know it just was after getting through session 3..5 times and session 4..3 times and taking a good look at my life over the past 40 some years and how or what I could have done differently to have enjoyed life more and how I used to blame everything on my ex husband, other people, my current husband of 20 years was now becoming what was wrong with anything and everything that caused me to be angry, sad, stressed out...you name it...i blamed it. After seeing all my personality traits and flaws caused by my enviroment and parents as a child and stood back and realized it was ME who was at fault and that I truly was not happy or at peace within myself and knew if I didn't stop this behavior I would keep hurting the ones I loved and who loved me and also never be in a good state myself. If I feel myself getting angry at someone....husband for example I make myself just shut up...STOP, THINK, Calm down and now I say what is so bad that you are getting all worked up over...STOP IT>>NOW. I then do just shut up, breathe, and just somehow that works. THANK GOD AND LUCINDA'S Program, I'm changing into a better person. Really it's first being able to hear your thoughts or words and no how you would normally have reacted..over reacted and just STOPPING YOURSELF before a silly nothing becomes a totally inapropriate big something there is no need for. I hope this helped.
Just STOP< THINK< DON'T OVER REACT !!
