Archive for January 26th, 2008

Anxiety Ruining Your Life? You’ve Come To The Right Place

I’ve struggled with anxiety for many years. If you have an anxiety problem, then I know how you feel. I know how desperate you are to get rid of it, and I will help you as much as I can.

I know the pain it causes you and your loved ones. For me, anxiety has severely restricted my life. It has made me afraid to move on. I was afraid to take chances and risks. It was destroying my dreams, and ruining my plans for the future. Fear will do that to you.

It will make your life a mess. You feel like you’re not moving forward because your anxiety is pushing you backwards. You want to find a solution, but you feel completely helpless. You’ve discussed the problem with your doctor, but therapy and medication is their only suggestion. “Does it really work? What if it doesn’t? What if I waste my money?”

I spent many years struggling with my anxiety. Going on and off medication (Zoloft). I’ve tried dealing with it in odd ways. I tried not to care about what others thought. I tried to get angry whenever I got a panic attack and I would lash out at who ever was around me. I would hide from the world (which I did for many years - and I was very good at it).

But hiding only made the anxiety worse. When I had to go back “out there”, the world was a foreign place to me. It was nothing like my bedroom - quiet and peaceful.

When I started the research for this site, I believed I had an anxiety disorder. I thought I had just one, which was panic disorder or panic attacks. When I found out about all the other disorders (GAD, SAD, PTSD, OCD, and OCPD), I realized I had more than one.

I saw how everything was interconnected. I dealt with one anxiety disorder by taking on another one. I know it sounds weird, but hopefully a few of you out there know what I’m talking about.

I’ll give you an example. I tried dealing with Social Anxiety Disorder by being perfect. Dressing perfectly, writing perfectly, reading perfectly, etc….which was fine when I started doing it, but it eventually snowballed into larger problems.

Eventually, I got OCPD - Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder - which is having things perfect, having things my way, being rigid and inflexible, etc…

Well, after five years, I finally feel like I can move on with my life. My anxiety is not pushing me backwards anymore. I’m finally starting to move forward.

Anxiety will ruin your life. It almost ruined mine. Don’t let it get out of control. Do something about it now! That’s the best advice I can give to those who have an anxiety disorder.