Anxiety Journal #1

its scary how similar we are lol ive always been told that i think too much! as i child it was i think too much for someone so young! its so hard to break a habit thats a part of you. Im tryna break my habits, i too take things to heart and overreact and over think everything and it is so stressful, im sure my life wud be easier if i didnt think about every little thing

Either you control your mind or it controls you, there is no half-way compromise.

Mighty is the human mind, it builds or destroys.

Sharon nice video. A tip I've taken up from a book about this. Immediately when you are worried about something, thing of the worst possible scenerio and then accept it. So if you think you've said something that someone can take the wrong way, accept that you'll lose this friend. The worst never happens, but you rid your mind of all the doubt. It helps.

I have suffered from this for a long time, I did a video about it I think 6 months or so ago telling my story. Anyway, I read PanicAway, and it helped me a lot. I think it's great that you are learning to cope. <3

I think your doing so well for someone with anxiety. I don't take any meds but I taught myselft to def let things go and stop worrying. I try to devert my attention to something more positive. great video.

I also live in my head most of the day. I analyze and worry so much. My husband is quite the opposite. It is good that you are working on this problem for yourself. If you can try to surround yourself with people who can tell you when you are doing it too much, that's even better. As you say, everything in moderation.

Hey fellow anxiety sufferer!

we have so much in common

I feel like everything you said in this video could have come out of my own mouth. The anxiety really has taken over my entire life as well, and everything about the living in disorder and having rough relationships hits really close to home. I'm pretty much 100% sure my weight problem is a direct result of my anxiety.

Do you meditate at all? That really helps me with my anxiety (well, that and my meds).

I like getting garbage out. The problem I have is I can make folders to keep track of stuff (for work) but then forget where I put it because there is just so much to remember. I have a horrible memory which I am working on. I got though once a month and do small areas of my house. If I have not used it for a year I probably won't so I throw it out and won't buy it again. I just listened to "The Secret". Have you read it? I listened to the CD. All about positive thinking.

VERY good idea about telling yourself "it's a false thought". I too will adopt this. Thanks again for sharing ♥

I also have laundry that piles up, clutter and eating too much at times and then losing all the weight then gaining it back. I think you are dead on Sharon. Thanks for your insight. It is comforting to know one is not alone.

I have it too. I am starting to recognize that it comes on worse when I am tired, when it is my "time of the month" and when I have gone too long without eating. I actually can go into a panic attack. I have learned to talk myself down from it before it gets out of control, however, at times no matter what I say to myself about the feelings being irrational, I still get them.

gosh sharon i hate anxiety i have bad anxiety myself , i was put on medicine my anxiety got so bad last year i had to go to the hospital it was controlling my blod pressure and my heart was 180 bpm it was scary .
i still have to contain my anxiety everyday i feel like im living in fear alot . i always feel like im going to pass out and no one will find m e i know its weird im a hypochondriac also i think

ashley everything you just said is just like me i can relate greatly !

I have serious anxiety problems. Mainly social anxiety and I'm positive it is due to my weight gain over the years. I hate going to public places where I know I may see someone I know. I'm always worried that they are going to say "Wow, she got fat", etc. etc. about me. Not only that though – I have pretty much NO friends because of my insecurities and that causes me to be really awkward around people when I'm out in public. I'm on Zoloft, but I know the main issue is my weight.

Anxiety sucks I have that too. I had to get a pill for that. But some times that doesn't work. So I know what you are talking about. I am sending you Big hugs and tons of kisses for your cheeks. God bless you and your family.

this hits way too close to home.

thank you for making this

Anxiety disorders seem to run in my family. I lost my brother. He commited suicide. He had bad anxiety, stress, agoraphobia, depression. He was fed up. If you're born with any kind of anxiety disorder including social anxiety, OCD, GAD, is this Linden Method still the cure?

It IS the worst form of OCD. Its a very scary and disturbing disorder to have.

thank you so much I've struggled with this for a little over half a year (which I know isn't a long time) and failed to even recognize the situation. This helps so much thank you.

I almost cried with relief from this video. I was diagnosed with OCD 6 years ago and had horrible violent thoughts and was terrified of knives and sharp objects. It comes and goes and its come back again. I keep having to say things to myself like 'ugh, forget about it, thats horrible, thats disgusting.' I no longer feel as much anxiety because its now somewhat under control. By telling myself there and then 'just forget about it', it does kinda help. I also keep worrying about other disorders.

WOW i have been trying to explain this to my mother forever! i keot asking if she has weird thoughts like this! finally someone understands and can explain it thanks so much!

after watching only the advertisment for his programme I felt better,the next day i was asking myself if my life was really in danger and wether I needed to be tence and anxious.Its funny to hear charles mention the symptoms i was told were seperate disorders as a docter would diagnose you with anxiety,ocd,depression,shyness etc and then explain that they are unusually found together in patients lol umm perhaps they are just part of the anxiety responce!.I ordered my course yesterday,yeehaaa!

You make a great deal of sense. This is supposed to be the worst form of OCD your video helps – thanks

talk to your doctor about Fluvoxamine i take it and it seems to work it is in the same catagory of anti depressents but is not actually one it treats OCD and does work and odes not have the same side effects that other drugs like paxil zoloft i also use Klonopin its like Xanax but works longer on the body and helps with the Anxiety i have been on it for two weeks now and i feel alot better

it makes it worse to write it down. it makes me realize how crazy i really am. even though i am not? best thing to do is just use apathy. and forget about it. easier said than done i know. but when you realize its anxiety that is when you should tell youself, there is no real danger. but with me, even though i know its not real. or true, and there is no danger. the feeling is still there and raises the level.

holy crap. lately i have been getting severe inappropriate thoughts. hurting other people for 1. that scares the hell out of me. like as if if i fall asleep im going to sleep kill someone. its actually kind of humorous now that i think about it. like i realize how ridiculous that is. but the scariest one, is imagining my deceased aunt from hunningtons disease in the room trying to kill me for some reason. she loved me. its so opposite. your not alone.

im sorry klonopin and fluvoxamine is what i take for my OCD everything he said i this video is albsolutly what i go through but the meds have stopped the thoughts and when i do get a thought its as if my mind discards it hopefuly one day i can stop the meds and control it on my on but in the mean time meds are doing the job i had my wife throw all the knifes away before i was on meds because when i would see one i would get thoughts of hurting her and a image of me doing would come as well

im pretty sure his method works but my kolopin and Fluvoxamine has worked on my OCD

To everyone under me… just try to understand what made u flip in the first place… i think the traumas we go through set us up for this horrible problem…

if something we feel hurt us to much that could plce u under a state of constant stress.

Hi Charles.. Is ALCOHOLISM a form of anxiety? Can that be cured? Like you said..medication or psychotherapy will not cure you..that's why i wanted to know if alcoholism can be cured by your methods.

is thinking your dead and thinking everything is something your just hallucinating is that a symptom of anixety?

Charles I was wondering if you program has helped people with anxiety induced by marijuana and hallucinogens. I've been told it's just anxiety. Medications don't make me feel "right". I'm rather desperate.

Hi. I meant this way as only part of the cure and not as a total cure, obviously your research is very high and I know as I have read your book about Anxiety disorders. Sometimes it helps to get what we feel on paper to refer to in another attack but only as a helper not a cure as you say. Best regards.

This kind of 'writing down' thoughts technique is used in CBT but our research and experience has shown us that this doesn't and can't work! Many of our clients come to us having tried this sort of technique and have been very disappointed. To us, the reason for failure is obvious but not to all. Charles

Charles. In the first part of this video you say about a car crash. Normaly in this situation you will NOT have a panic attack because your concious part of the brain is IN control and will deal with it probably perfectly, but when you are at home again your old friend the sub conscious will kick in and give you an attack. OCD this is normaly when our minds are looking for food and will do as you say, write all these thoughts down everday after a week you will laugh at them!

Thank you this was very helpful.

Thank you so much for this video. I thought I was going mad. It is so hard having panic attacks. I recently had a massive panic attack and it scared the crap out of me. Thank you for helping me to understand these feelings.

your videos are AMAZING I used to have EXTREME OCD and depersonalization…you have explained this in the best ways possible. I used to wash my hands several times a day, and had to touch everything four times otherwise it didnt feel right…

You know what u r talking bout very well, my anxiety lvl was so high that I even had a paranoid thought, that all the people are just pretending the world and the life, it scared the shyt out of me, I thought i was schzioprenic or something, but then I realized that deep inside I dont believe in that cuz it is senseless I would cut the thought rite when it comes to the point i am not afraid of it no more I just laugh at it, and everything all the anxiety and thoughts have gone away Im suprised

Wow. Thanks man. Great Video, Found it at a perfect time, Been suffering from this for about 2 months now, it seems like the toughts dont bother me as much, so I have to agree with you on the part where you say, the lever of stress = level of anxiety. Thank you and keep up the good work..

Eh? You imagined sex and death in every imaginable way? If you were a writer or an artist or a musician or someone in the arts, you could have put that to good use!!

I was religious when I was younger, so random thoughts about sex or anyting inappropriate caused me to feel guilty and reach out to the lord, but these days I just kind of ignore them, unless I require their assistance.