i ithnk everyone can relate to your feelings. Your wife is right stay positive, it will pass. Dont go down the ohh no here we go again road. Normal emotions will retunr slowly, as they did for me anyway. im still getting there, btu little things come back in strips , then they go again, its really keeping the faith of knowing one day it will all pass and we will suffer no more. it is certainly the hardest thing i have had to cope with. Just have some self belief, and we can all provide some advice and reassurance. you will get there. i am not great with words but will always try to help, as people on here have helped me a great deal

try and just be and not stress xxxxxxxxxx

just a general enquiry. i have gone through this site a lot of times and it has made me reach this stage of improvement..i have improved a lot and thanks to you Paul. Let me ask you something…I have come across a lot of books and articles written by known authors on self improvement, more positivity, change your life in seven days and a lot more which will really help in boosting a person’s self esteem and confidence. I have heard if you read or exposed to positive things deep down you are changing to a positive person.

But i feel these things can have an impact only on those who are normal with their emotions and who can practise it .I want to change that view imprinted on my brain. I feel i cannot use those positive statements and bring them into reality as i suffered and still suffer a little bit from this ‘condition’. But i feel if it was before i got into this i could have…these are all problems of limited thinking or negative statements which i constantly tell myself and which is inturn is a hindrance to recovery.

when they tell about some mental exercise of imgaining a scenario to bring positive change i just go blank or bringing to thoughts some good or bad previous experience to change them for the better to view them differently..they are teaching good things..
but i feel i am incapable of even thinking..i feel i cannot understand what i am reading and i keep reading the same sometimes.. it frustrates me a lot..

Please help me Paul.Just give me some reassurances that if i read those articles and books it can help me a lot just like it will do to a normal average person walking on the street..

Give me Some reassurances as u have helped all of us to reach this stage of improvement and some of them even full recovery..You are a great person as your words have brought people who were living in a trance to normality..as very few people understand what we ‘go through’
looking forward for your response….

One more query. Each time i go the blog site my name and email is there on the page.I dont want my name and id on the page as many of them uses the same computer.Please help on this
Cheers

I can only come on when time permits as the blog has grown so big but I will expand on anything I think will help the majority.

The new post will hopefully be up tomorrow.

Paul

Im happy that I can be of help. I know sometimes its hard to face your fears but its truly the key to getting out of this anxiety condition. Try to remember that Anxiety lives on avoidance and fear (constant thinking) of it. So by facing your fears, FEELING EVERY SYMPTOM and LIVING YOUR LIFE regardless of the situation your in changes your views about anxiety and builds your innate confidence. As Paul said, anxiety is not the enemy, its not out to make your life miserable, its something your body has to go through to repair itself; its natural. Look at anxiety as a resource for living, something you gota work with in order to get out of the condition. It truly is natural and I assure you as time passes and you understanding grows, things fall in place, its all about patience:)

All the best
Kashawn.

Its has been a while, decided to take a break from anxiety and the internet. i had 1 month and a half of good days. actually thought that i was recovering well until last week i got hit with a major setback..Dont know what brought it up but i am feeling like crap. Feel like gagging all the time, more in the morning though. Feel down and lack of appetiate…feel like i am at square one again..i know we must have these downs in order to get back up there but i find them hard…It takes away the joy in my life. I still try to do normal things in my life but i do them with no emotion. Spoke to my wife and she tells me to stay positive and take it day by day and it will pass..

I need some reassurance anybody, been with anxiety since July 2008 and this is by far the hardest thing i ever went through..

Hello to Candie, Scarlet, James + Paul and everyone stay positive…

PS: almost finished reading Paul’s book its amazing..

Sam

that is a very good idea, i might try that. its very difficult trying to approach a subject that hes sensitive about. I am having a lot better days thouhg recently and am getting on with life as i should have done in the beginning. it has taken me a long time to get to this stage but if it takes as long agin to fully recover then so be it. it takes the pressure off, and my confidence is coming back too!. thanks for the advice , and dont ever feel because you have anxiety it makes you weak, getting through it makes you stronger! BELEIVE ME!.
wow have a great evening allxx