Wednesday 22 July 2009

My Struggle with Panic Is Finally over

By Jack Spencer

I can still remember my mother having anxiety attacks whenever I was a young child. That was back during a time whenever nobody discussed the fact that they were having anxiety attacks and it was a hidden family secret in many cases. Times have changed, and people now are very open about the fact that they are dealing with anxiety. As a matter of fact, it is difficult to have a conversation with somebody in which the subject of anxiety does not come up.

Even though I was aware that anxiety attacks typically ran in families, I didn't feel as if I was going to have a problem with it because I lived my life without much worry. The unfortunate thing is, that didn't stop the anxiety attacks from coming and whenever I was in my mid-20s, I had my first attack that really came as a surprise. Although I had always expected that I might have an anxiety attack, I wasn't ready for the symptoms that happened and it ended up putting me in the hospital, thinking that I was having a heart attack.

After the first one started to occur, they began to come in more rapid frequency and the intensity of the anxiety was increasing as well. There were times when ever I found it difficult to even leave the house and I tended to stay indoors out of fear that I might have one of my panic attacks in public. Although it was difficult to admit that I needed to do something about it, that's exactly what I did and I started to look for a way to overcome them.

I did plenty of research on anxiety attacks and one of the things that I found interesting was the fact that many people claim to be able to overcome them using natural cures. Even though I have been dealing with anxiety attacks for a few years up to this point, I had always resisted going to the doctor in order to get a prescription. I watched several family members who really deteriorated as a result of taking these medications and being switched from prescription to prescription.

I started to read everything that I can possibly get my hands on and one of the more interesting ways of coping with anxiety attacks and I found was to simply allow them to happen. I was always fighting my way through the anxiety, as if I was trying to get to the other side of the attack as quickly as possible. As it turns out, this was the worst thing that I could have possibly done.

I stopped fighting the anxiety, and I simply allowed it to go underneath me and I rose on top of it in order to ride it to its completion. This had a twofold effect, one of which was to allow the anxiety to pass by quickly and the other one was that I had far fewer attacks as a result of dealing with it in this way.

The anxiety is not completely gone from my life, and to tell you the truth anxiety really is not a bad thing if you're able to deal with it successfully. I'm always careful to make sure that the coping mechanisms that I use are right at my fingertips. By successfully coping with the anxiety, I have been able to overcome it to a large extent and I no longer have the problems that I used to have with it.

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