Tag Archives: coping with anxiety

Some Things To Consider When Overcoming Panic Attacks

In my last post I talked about how I had been carrying around tension from a scuffle my dog got into where he could have injured a puppy. It was really traumatic for me and the result was I had … Continue reading

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Oh No Not Again! My Anxiety Came Back out of Nowhere… Or Did It?

Yesterday I had an experience at work where I came very close to having a spontaneous panic attack. I didn’t actually have one- I just sort of lingered in this very highly anxious state which was extremely distressing for me. … Continue reading

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What Does Anxiety Recovery Mean?

If you polled a thousand people who suffer from debilitating anxiety or panic attacks and asked them what is it they really want, the answer would be the same: a cure. Heck if you polled a million anxious people and … Continue reading

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A Challenge: Let’s Try Not Adding Second Fear Today

In an earlier post, we talked about how anxious people torture themselves by experiencing first fear, which is the normal startle reaction that everyone gets, and then how we add a ton of second fear to it. We don’t even … Continue reading

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Why Anxious People Torture Themselves (and what to do about it)

Did you know that as an anxious person you are actually torturing yourself? Of course we don’t realize it or we sure as hell wouldn’t do it. Below is the best explanation I have found for why anxious people do … Continue reading

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The Truth

Last night I went to the high school open house to meet my daughter’s new teachers. My husband wasn’t going to be able to join me and I started to get a lot of anxiety about 2 hours before I … Continue reading

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Coping with Anxiety by Sharing it

I made my whole deal with anxiety a lot harder when I was younger by doing my best to hide it from the entire world. My method of coping with anxiety was to suffer all the symptoms in silence. When … Continue reading

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Keeping a Journal for Coping with Anxiety

Keeping a journal has definitely helped me in coping with anxiety. One of my favorite things to do is to draw a big line down the middle of the page. On the left side of the page, I let my … Continue reading

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