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Posted 2/6/2008 1:18 PM (GMT 0)
I find that telling myself im allowed to worry bout things and its natural to feel anxious in some situations helps me stop of obessing over some problems. just a little thing that works for me
Posted 2/6/2008 2:46 PM (GMT 0)
Badfish,
I think you have really got all the right ideas and now attempt to make this your normal thinking and try to stay out of the anxiety zone. Keep posting.

Kitt
Posted 2/7/2008 4:47 AM (GMT 0)
What I have found if it be CBT, reading or whatever. Do what works best for you. If reading helps do it, talking with friends do it. CBT then do it.Try different things and see what works best. I have had a/p for years, got a handle on it only for it to come back and bite me hard. But for me I had to go through a list of things to see what worked best for me.

I wish you all the best.
Mia
Posted 2/7/2008 1:14 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Kitt
Posted 2/7/2008 4:26 PM (GMT 0)
HI angel just checking to see if everything is ok!! Hope your'e doing well honey!!!!!!
Posted 2/7/2008 9:58 PM (GMT 0)
I am new i got curious about chat sites with people that suffer from the same things that i do.I wont feel like an out cast.I am always having to explain my agoraphobia as this is something that people dont hear so much of.I also have clinical depression,panic/anxiety attacks,post tramatic stress disorder,I feel alone alot even though im married and have 5 children and three grandbabies.I to hate the night,its just plain spooky and over whelming loneliness.And that is the time that i am usually up and cant sleep.I dont have the fear of dying,but i do have the feeling of being crazy,and going crazy.I am glad that i found some where to go without leaving my house.
Posted 2/8/2008 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
Welcome
There are many here that DO suffer from Agoraphobia and if you start a new thread on it you will get many responses this is buried in another thread and INHO you do need to talk about it
YOU are not crazy hun nor going crazy ..you would not know IF you were...........I do feel ther lonliness ans sadness in your post....email me if you would like to talk k info is at the side and if you need help to start your own thread let me know I will check this post first thing in am to see if you have responded........LYN


CBT has helped me in so many ways ......including with my thoughts .......
Posted 2/11/2008 7:40 PM (GMT 0)

stkitt said...
Hi Bigbear, I am glad you are doing so well with the CBT. could you elaborate a bit on how CBT works for you? did you go to therapy or do the online version?
Thanks
Kitt


Hi Kitt, thanks and sure I can elaborate cool I was in a group and we used the book by sam Obitz which is where I learned how to use the TEA forms and train my brain to think less emotionally and more realistically. I do my TEA's almost everyday to keep my inaccurate thoughts from taking hold and causing me stress and anxiety. In our group once we got good at using the TEA's we added some exposure therapy to build our confidence in our new ways of thinking and dealing which was great. I no longer have to take meds and am pretty much in maintenance mode now. I had tried just about every option my docs put in front of me prior to finding success with cbt and by then I had lost all hope so never give up!
Posted 2/11/2008 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Hi BIgBear!!! I am sooooo glad that the CBT therapy is working!!! Way to go!!!! Although you are on the road to recovery dont forget about all of us we still need all the support we can get!(smile) I will be starting therapy in a few days this will be the first time out of 10 years of dealing with agraphobia and P/A that i will actually be starting therapy!!!! I've tried the medicine thing and is still trying it but i think it is time to try something new as the medicine can only do so much! I hope to have a suceess story to share like you eventually!
Posted 2/14/2008 3:46 AM (GMT 0)
Panike-
I sincerely hope you will have success too! I don't post as often as I would like here these days but will try and check in and be a resource for others as so many helped me get where I am now. My best advice to you is to really throw yourself into doing all the homework assignments as progress with cbt is cumulative. Best of luck to you and let me know how it progresses smurf
Posted 2/14/2008 3:57 AM (GMT 0)
Hi BigBear i will keep you posted on how the counceling goes.And thank you, i hope i will have sucess too it's been so long since i have done anything that made me feel sucessful in any way! Take Care BigBear! I hope you continue to progress!
Posted 2/16/2008 1:04 PM (GMT 0)
Great input bigbear

I too hope you will continue to post when you are able ........

CBT has been a real life saver of a self help technique for me
I do the online one and it is great .yep I was skeptical .VERY.......Not anymore and I see more and more are getting to places thru using CBT

KUDOS

Luvs
LYN
"My "stinking thinking" has really changed with the CBT as well .......Lyn
Posted 2/20/2008 6:18 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for sharing all that bigbear very inspirational! I was a CBT skeptic as well Lyn and never imagined I would become a CBT cheerleader eyes But it has been so awesome I had no choice. I don't know where i would be without CBT and the TEA form exercise, but I am glad to be where I am today :-)
Posted 2/22/2008 1:38 AM (GMT 0)
Since my anxiety and panic started, I have felt like I would go crazy and loose my mind. I seriously thought I was until I had a cousin who had suffered with anxiety for over 20 years and she went through it also. Especially when the full panic attacks hit it is the worse. I felt like I needed to be in rehab getting help. It hurt just to look around at anything. Everything seemed weird, I felt scared and had crazy thoughts. Well I found what helped me a lot was to do research over anxiety and panic and I would even talk with a family member who also is a sufferer and it would help me feel better. When you read about anxiety it says feelings of going crazy is normal for people to have so its okay. I felt better for months and recently started feeling bad again. So I found this forum and it automatically helped me to feel better. Jus know you will not go crazy. I have felt the same things you have a probley much worse. You will be just fine. Remind yourself that this can and will get better. Hang in there. I am sorry you have to go throught this. I know it is beyond scary. But it will get better.
Posted 2/22/2008 2:06 AM (GMT 0)
First of all since this is Angel's thread i would like to say hi to Angel and to let Angel know we are still here sweety if you need us! Anastasia when i have panic attacks i feel like that too,it seems like for a minute i seperate from reality and everything around me looks weird and exaggerated! Almost like it's not real,i sometimes feel like i have to touch myself to see if i'm still here! I call it an outerbody experience!(lol) Because that's what it feels like to me!
Posted 5/28/2008 10:17 PM (GMT 0)

Hi everyone and especially Panike. I have not posted in a while but have wondered how your counseling has been going and if they incorporated and cbt or tea forms? Let me know how you are doing and I will try and post here more frequently than I have recently smurf

CBTgirl, thanks for the compliment tongue I am excited to hear that you love the tea forms as much as I do and have had success with them too yeah

Posted 5/28/2008 11:26 PM (GMT 0)
bigbear,

Nice to see you back with us. Your posts were always so encouraging. I hope you do post frequently.

Welcome back

Kitt
Posted 5/29/2008 12:45 PM (GMT 0)
on subject of obsessive thoughts i found new distraction technique, When i get thought i cant control and its realy bugging me i jus repeat a phrase in my head til all im focusing on is the phrase not the thought. Its only work in the really short term but it does work for me. It can be anything like "leaves on trees" then yourself thinking bout all the different types of trees instead of the horrible thought running through your head. its only works for bout2mins but it does stop me really winding myself up.
Posted 5/29/2008 12:57 PM (GMT 0)
badfish,

I do exactly what you do if I am out in public or driving and start to feel anxious about where I am going.

I have used the mnemonic for CPR............ [img]/community/emoticons/redface.gif[/img] A B C Airway, Breathing, Circulation and keep repeating it slowly in my mind. For me the trick is to think slowly so I calm down. Whatever a person uses I feel it should be short and easy to repeat over and over.

Great input badfish.

Hugs
Kitt
Posted 5/29/2008 11:26 PM (GMT 0)

stkitt said...

bigbear,

Nice to see you back with us.  Your posts were always so encouraging.  I hope  you do post frequently.

Welcome back

Kitt

Thanjks for such a sweet note... I'm feeling a bit guilty for not posting more but time is so hard to come by these days sad   I will try and check in more often though and it's great to hear updates from you and everyone else.

Hugs!

Posted 6/28/2008 12:41 AM (GMT 0)
How are you doing Kitt? I'm excited now that it is summer and I'm going to get some time off, yea! How about you, what are you doing for the summer? I hope you are well :)
Posted 7/22/2008 8:22 PM (GMT 0)

anastasia01 said...
Since my anxiety and panic started, I have felt like I would go crazy and loose my mind. I seriously thought I was until I had a cousin who had suffered with anxiety for over 20 years and she went through it also. Especially when the full panic attacks hit it is the worse. I felt like I needed to be in rehab getting help. It hurt just to look around at anything. Everything seemed weird, I felt scared and had crazy thoughts. Well I found what helped me a lot was to do research over anxiety and panic and I would even talk with a family member who also is a sufferer and it would help me feel better. When you read about anxiety it says feelings of going crazy is normal for people to have so its okay. I felt better for months and recently started feeling bad again. So I found this forum and it automatically helped me to feel better. Jus know you will not go crazy. I have felt the same things you have a probley much worse. You will be just fine. Remind yourself that this can and will get better. Hang in there. I am sorry you have to go throught this. I know it is beyond scary. But it will get better.

Very encouraging post Anastasia. Thanks for that. Persistence pays when it comes to beating anxiety and using the tea forms etc.
Posted 2/9/2009 10:31 PM (GMT 0)
Kitt,

I am so sorry I have not been back sooner and more often but though I am doing well emotionally I have had to deal with a few financial bumps in the road.
I am concerned about you Kitt as you are usually so quick to reply and I never heard back from you after that sweet note you posted to me way back at the beginning of summer. I sincerely hope you are okay and just very busy or never saw my replies to you. If you see this please let me know how you are doing? confused
Posted 2/9/2009 10:46 PM (GMT 0)
Big Bear,

Hey there my friend, I am doing good. Lots of bumps in the road over the last half of 2008 but made it and I am stronger for it.

I have a casual job now as a substitute school nurse and I just finished orientation.

I am sorry you are having financial issues and I will admit I too ran into losing a huge amount of my retirement account which I am already drawing on so therefore I took the job and was lucky to find one.

Please do join us and if your having anxiety start a thread or always let us know how you are doing. We are family.

Everyone always responded to your posts....................don't be a stranger my dear friend.

Gentle Hugs

Kitt
Posted 2/9/2009 11:09 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Kitt,
So nice to hear from you. I am sorry you experienced a tough second half of last year also but it sounds like you are doing well now and I am happy you found that new job!
Amazingly, despite the probs I have been dealing with my anxiety has for the most part remained under control. I think the fact I am still countering my thoughts in my tea forms almost everyday has helped a lot so I didn't fall into a big deep hole. I was able to deal with my fears everyday before they piled up on each other and overwhelmed me.
Take care and thanks for making this my extended family, so many great people here, I'll try not to go away for such long stretches in the future.
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