Bringing Your Anxiety to the Forefront in Order to Conquer It
Let me start off by saying I am not a medical professional, I am just an average guy working through his shit and sharing information that I have found, what works for me and what I am going to try out.
I am not sure about all of you who suffer from Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and depression but I am pretty sick of it and all the crap that goes along with it.
When you reach a certain age and finally find out what has been wrong with you your entire life there comes a point where enough is enough. I am at that point and yesterday was a very big tipping point for me. It was the straw the broke my back never mind the camel's back.
Yesterday I started with a new therapist and I feel really good about it, other than the fact that a comment was made about only being able to go see deep as a primary care therapist. Not sure what that means but I want more than just surface-level relief.
I know I am not alone with the bull shit that we all have to put up with every day that affects us all emotionally and then physically. I know that I am not the only one getting sick of it!
I believe I have tried every coping mechanism in the book and have tried several medications and still find myself somehow getting back to the same spot as when I started.
In the research that I did and the discussion that I have has with my doctor and therapist there is no real understanding of it all as it differs so much from person to person. What I get out of that is it is all a crapshoot and you really need to be upon how you are feeling and what actually worked for you. If not it becomes the blind leading the blind when it comes to your mental health. No good.
However, it is not safe to go along when trying to tackle these sorts of things so I highly recommend at the very least getting your primary care physician involved with your journey to tackle this shit.
I will be using my whole medical backup team to a degree in my fight against this shit. I have my Primary Care Physical, My therapist, and psychotherapist to help give me their advice and treatments which I will mix alongside my own natural ones.
It will be a step-by-step process but enough is enough.
- The First step is to realize that you have an issue or issues and start to really identify them. Write them down, make them real, and not just something that is in your head.
- Ask for some help, it does not need to be a doctor right out of the gate, though it can be. you can run some of this stuff by your loved ones and friends to get their opinion on things.
- Reach out to your doctor and review what you have discovered about yourself, they can either help you directly or refer you to someone who can. This can be a game-changer and has been for me.
- If you get to a point where you feel like you have made progress but are still getting stuck in an endless cycle, that is probably not as bad as before, it might be time to do a re-evaluation of what you are doing personally….diet, exercise, meditation, etc, etc.
At the moment I am running through notes and issues that I have and am going to build a plan for myself to follow to try to help break free from what I think is the final grip of my anxiety and depression.
I know these issues will never go away but if I can control the power they have over me I can start to create the distance and then try to make it easy for me to squash the negative feelings when they arrise.
Good luck to everyone in the same battle and feel free to connect and share idea’s!
