A surprising situation

jtsuited

Hello there folks. First time posting on this particular forum.
Basically i'm in a funny situation at the moment. i've been suffering from severe anxiety/ depression for the last two months. I've been through it before about three years ago and i can honestly say it made me a stronger tougher person. right now i've been to hell and back (again!) with the way things have been for the past two months. I know i can get through this and it's funny because most of my anxiety is about how weird i feel all the time.

Now my worry is that i maybe trying to ignore the problems that have caused this. I mean i was convinced i had truly beaten my last episode of this but evidently it came back to cripple me.

I've developed new coping skills which are different from the last time. To put it simply i decided to accept and in a way, embrace my depression. At the same time though i'm keeping myself busy, hammering away at life anyway because how i feel isn't that much of a big deal.

Anyway I was wondering if anyone here who has been through depression/anxiety can share how they got through it. Because i really hope i'm not barking up the wrong bush.

And it's really weird at the moment because to anyone on the outside, i should be the happiest person in the world. I have everything anybody could want, and am surrounded by really wonderful people who really care about me. I guess this is just growing up, but i've had pretty traumatic things happen to me with regards my head in the past few years.

Does this seem a bit odd to any of you out there? Thanks

ando

jtsuited wrote:

Anyway I was wondering if anyone here who has been through depression/anxiety can share how they got through it. Because i really hope i'm not barking up the wrong bush

I suffered a bad case of generalised anxiety in July'04.

The coping skills I used was abdominal breathing and positive self talk, no tea, coffee or fizzy drinks (stimulants). That was the short term fix. It really worked well but I have also challenged the real reason that has caused the anxiety in the first place which has REALLY helped.

Any time a topic comes up like this I always recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572244135/qid=1128297290/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-6176515-1678225

It is by far the best book out there if you really want to help yourself get rid of the unnatural anxiety levels

jtsuited wrote:

Now my worry is that i maybe trying to ignore the problems that have caused this.

I've developed new coping skills which are different from the last time

coping skills are just that, they help you get through the immediate problem but have no impact on the CAUSE of the problem. Ignoring the reason why the anxiety is there is not going to help you. You need to challenge the problem

g'em

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