When do enough become Enough

To where you reach out for all the help you can get,knowing it will take something major to turn your life around. I just checked everything from my,sugar&temp both of those are fine. Maybe I need to check my bp but that mean I would have to go in,my mother room to get it,to only hear her say whats wrong now Iam tired of feeln,like this&want to get better. Iam tired of posting these forums with no good news&I now see I need to gp back to my old meds,no one understands me other then here and I want to be strong for you all so zI may not be posting here for min I need to get myself together&I just don't think I can do it on social media Iam a wreck right now&feel so depress&don't even know why&will be up as long as I can si I want go to sleep with neg thoughts to wake up with them. And I will be finding some peace tonight¿

Hi Soul,

Enough is enough when you just stop caring about your anxiety and torturing yourself with it. Its so easy to fall into the trap and get worked up about not feeling better or making any progress. If you've truly and really had enough of it you will find it easier to use your CBT skills to just not care anymore. So what if I pass out and die on the middle of the sidewalk later today, I won't really care about it and its highly improbable. There's probably good medical care not too far away and someone will likely call an ambulance. I'd probably think as I'm dying I should have had a living will and too bad I didn't increase the life insurance limit last year.

What's the point of torturing yourself with all the what ifs and self doubt? Enough is enough when you finally realize anxiety has no grip on you cause you just don't care anymore.

Hello Soul

I remember years ago when I was a total wreck. I stumbled across one of Lucinda Bassett's books. I remember her saying " are you tired of being on that Meri-go-round of anxiety...then just simply step off "

Of course I wondered is that even possible? Well, maybe not in an instant...but looking back now, it makes sense. It took awhile but I went from constant panic to a quality life with no panic...I do still have anxiety but it passes fairly quick because I pay little attention to it and that's the KEY...Stop paying so much attention to how it feels...learn to roll with how it feels and the chemicals that are released will ease up much faster. It's like when people google syptoms and it makes anxiety worse...you have to go the other way and look for anything positive....like reading about methods that work and how to use coping skills...it's about challenging yourself and big time celebrating the little victories for even the smallest of accomplishments...it's about feeling really crappy, but yet put a smile on your face and chuckle for 3 seconds...if you want to feel different...then you have to act and think different.

My tag line says it all....at least for me it does and was key to recovery....best wishes....WM