Update;felling WAYY better.

What a difference a week makes. Some of you may remember me sharing having anxiety/panic attacks at night and not being able to sleep. Few times I took sleeping pills and it made my heart beat faster. My heart beating fast was the cause of the anxiety, as it was really high when I went in for a dr's apt(which I now know was caused by white coat syndrome,AKA nervousness)

Anyway, I've always been a positive person for the most part, and when it happened I just kept telling myself this was temporary and I'd beat it. With the help of prayer, and cbt(another member mails them to me daily) I have pretty much beat it. I can sleep, and if I wake up, and I feel it trying to come on, I push thru it, and ignore it..before you know it..I'm back to sleep again. I did alot of self talking(encouragement) I reminded myself that things I feel in my body are normal and i never had a prob with it before..it just comes and goes..ie hearing my heart beat, occassional dizziness, catching breath etc. There was a little blurb at the bottom of one of the cbt lessons that talked about worry. Goes something like this..you already worried about tommorow yesterday.

It made me realize how I was wasting my time worrying, and worrying for nothing, for what does worry do besides cause more worry and anxiety? That'sw when I realized I should appreciate the fact that I am healthy and alive TODAY, bc you never know...in the future I may have an actual disease(I DON'T CLAIM THAT)..then I'll look back and say....all those yrs I was healthy, I worried for nothing. Just think about it for a minute. Say you are a hypochondriac and you fear having some chronic disease. You live in fear for years and years...then one day you are diagnosed w/ a chronic disease. Now your worries are valid, but all those yrs before you could have been worry free, and thinking....wow I should have just enjoyed those days.


Anyway not trying to sound preachy, but just wanted to share some thoughts that got me out of the negative and scarey thoughts. I also noticed that I still had some physical side effects from the anxiety..even tho my mind was well. Which speaks volumes!

I know what you mean, I spend way to much time worrying about what might happen tomorrow, next week, month..ect. I know I should focus on today instead.
I'm so glad you are feeling better!!!

Shell, sending you good thoughts for tomorow. Good thing about this, is everyday is a new chance, and there's no such thing as failing. Example you can feel great on day about going out, then have anxiety the whole time you're out. That's not the time to beat yourself up over. Just brush it off and say...oh well there's always tommorow,and drive on.

Congrats! I'm so happy for you!!!
janet

Excellent! I have to say that I love how self fulfilling and supportive your user name is.

How are you doing
Just checking in hoping you are still doing good and will let us know
Lyn