W.I.F.T.S.
06-03-06, 13:06
Last week I decided to be more proactive about getting better.
I was thinking of hypnotherapy, CBT, relaxation CDs, alternative therapies.
I've had a book for a while called Panic Attacks by Christine Ingham. I wasn't especially impressed by the look of it and so I came onto here to try and swap it for a Claire Weekes book. It was only when someone said 'don't swap it, it's a brilliant book' that I thought I'd give it a go.
I'll admit, it is pretty good. So far there isn't that much that I haven't read elsewhere, but it's reassuring the way in which she goes through symptoms and explains, having suffered from panic attacks herself, that they do eventually go away.
I feel like I've had every symptom going. I've suffered with general anxiety, panic attacks and depression for 3 years. I feel like I'm at the point now where things are starting to fall back into place a little, but I'm so desperate to get there and be well that it's dragging itself out.
At the moment I feel depressed more than anything because I kind of feel like I'm getting back to my old self and, to be honest, i wasn't that keen on who I was anyway. I'm trying to look at it like I'm a catapillar changing into a butterfly and that transformation is a very difficult (but worthwhile) struggle.
Ships in harbour are safe..but that's not what ships were built for.
I was thinking of hypnotherapy, CBT, relaxation CDs, alternative therapies.
I've had a book for a while called Panic Attacks by Christine Ingham. I wasn't especially impressed by the look of it and so I came onto here to try and swap it for a Claire Weekes book. It was only when someone said 'don't swap it, it's a brilliant book' that I thought I'd give it a go.
I'll admit, it is pretty good. So far there isn't that much that I haven't read elsewhere, but it's reassuring the way in which she goes through symptoms and explains, having suffered from panic attacks herself, that they do eventually go away.
I feel like I've had every symptom going. I've suffered with general anxiety, panic attacks and depression for 3 years. I feel like I'm at the point now where things are starting to fall back into place a little, but I'm so desperate to get there and be well that it's dragging itself out.
At the moment I feel depressed more than anything because I kind of feel like I'm getting back to my old self and, to be honest, i wasn't that keen on who I was anyway. I'm trying to look at it like I'm a catapillar changing into a butterfly and that transformation is a very difficult (but worthwhile) struggle.
Ships in harbour are safe..but that's not what ships were built for.