Over Analysis

Filan

Actualy feel that most of my phobia ridden behavior is actualy a result of overanalysing my thoughts...everyone has unpleasant thoughts....feelings etc...left alone most people would forget them and move on..I attempted to discredit them....lasting months or years..kept them alive...developing phobias and patterns of anxiety along the way...If I had the trust and the confidence to let them flow...and forget them...They'd be long gone and have had no impact on my life.

Read about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy...which encourages acceptance of all thoughts , feelings and emotions....and by accepting them we remove the need to fight them. We should then live in accordance with our own values and try to accept the outcome.

I've lived in an overcontrolled state for years....pointless worry...a healthy mind...I just didn't trust it.

watna

Maybe you could speak to your doctor again, letting him/her know that you do not want to go on medication. Maybe you could look in to cognative therapy? It can be used to analyse your thought patterns and get yourself out of panicking and anxiety patterns.

It may be worth looking in to.

Filan

Thanks...I am seeing one currently and she has recommended that I simply ignore such thoughts....and that's why I don't want medication...because it is my thought pattern....and medication won't change my thought pattern.

A tired brain currently....and a sense of mild disorientation in certain situations....and it's all over analysising.... Fighting myself....but as I've read fighting isn't the way to go.

Acceptance

Has anyone else experienced disorientation?

Marcus.Aurelius

Hi Filan,

I remember reading about the same sort of disorientation, sort of panic when you start to let go and accept what's going on rather than overly analysing.

It's a coping mechanism, trying to draw you back to your previous analysis. Ignore it, and it does go away after a while. Good luck.

MargeS

I can relate to this....
Does cognative therapy get you thinking in a different way... somehow break out of the cycle you're in? Re-train your brain so to speak.

Filan

C.G.T helps one to reason with one's fears....and to understand them....supplemented by gradual exposure and the results can be faar longer lasting than any medical options...However it does take time to work...unlike a pill there might not be an instant impact.

I'm starting to believe strongly in acceptance though...feel that it has the potential to solve much of my problems....It involves surrendering control and therefore the need to analyse...

I honestly believe that it is my analysis that has caused most of my problems....If had simply accepted...the bodily reactions and whatever actual events happened...I'd have experienced only mild anxiety problems....I made them enormous by fighting them