Friday, May 23, 2014

You Can Recover And You Will Recover!

1. Really understand what is happening, read it and re read it until its clear in your mind

2. Accept that these thoughts and feelings are around, whether you like them or not. Allow them to do their thing and you do yours.

3. Remember a thought is just that "a thought" it does not mean you will act on it or are a bad person for thinking it. Let the thoughts come in and out of your mind as they want to and you just do your thing while they do.

4. Each time you feel panic switch to slow mode and slow everything down

5. Start to do the opposite to your instincts as much as you can

6. Expose yourself to situations and people you have been avoiding and activate your panic response (remember we WANT the panic to come)

7. Once activated stay there, until you feel the panic die away, remember the panic MUST leave before you do

8. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!

9. Carry on living your life with the panic alongside you

10. Have Patience. Don’t think it should have gone by now why won’t it? Wait till it decides to die away. It will but it may take a while.

11. Always have the end result in your mind (this was something I always did), never lose hope that you will recover.

The above steps really helped me and it’s also really helpful to remember that the person you once were before all this is still there, underneath it all and just waiting to come back again. The body is also really good at healing itself and will work hard to get better as soon as you give it chance to. 

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