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Dealing Successfully with Anxiety – My Story

Whenever I was a young child, I watched my mother have anxiety attacks that seemed to come, one right after the other. Of course, nobody ever really talked about anxiety attacks at that time and it was a lot of work putting into making sure that it was kept a family secret. This has changed in recent years and now, it is difficult to have a conversation with someone where they are not talking about the anxiety that they are feeling.

Although I knew that anxiety attacks tended to be genetically based, I really didn’t feel as if I was going to have a difficult time with it because I didn’t have any worries or I tended to allow things to pass by without worrying about them. The unfortunate thing is, that didn’t stop me from having anxiety attacks and my first one occurred whenever I was in my 20s. It took me by surprise so much that I ended up in the hospital, thinking that I was having a heart attack.

Over the course of the next few years, the anxiety attacks that I was experiencing became more frequent and began to increase in intensity. It was beginning to take over my life and at times, I found myself being unwilling to even leave the house out of fear that I might have another anxiety attack whenever I was in a public place. That is when I decided to do something about it.

I had heard that there were people who were able to cure their anxiety attacks or at the very least to be able to successfully deal with them using natural means. I was not willing to take any kind of pill for the anxiety, mainly because I was afraid of the side effects that went along with a lot of that medicine. Having watched family members deteriorate as a result of taking those medications was also quite a deterrent.

I began to do more research and absolutely everything that was written about anxiety attacks ended up passing under my nose at some time or another. One thing that I found in my case, is that I was always fighting my way into the anxiety and trying to get to the other side of the anxiety attack quickly. After doing plenty of research, I realized that this was something that was hurting my ability to deal with them.

Instead of fighting against the anxiety, I began to allow it to wash underneath me as if I was riding on top of wave on the ocean. Not only did this help the anxiety to pass by more quickly, I also found that I was having the attacks less frequently and was not as worn out as a result of having them.

I have to admit, there are still times whenever I feel the anxiety welling up inside of me but it is not something that ever occurs as an anxiety attack any longer. I keep my way of coping close at hand and whenever I feel as if I’m going to have an anxiety attack, I simply allow it to wash away which is something that I’ve learned from my coping technique. In doing so, I have been able to be free of panic attacks for many years.