anxiety help: I’ve been off my anxiety meds for 3 weeks and 3 days. - Help.com

COngratulations.

The key is to make sure your behaviour changes. Meds can only dull the anxiety enough so you can change how you react to anxiety… confront, commit, and persist until you succeed without running away.

Be aware that seeking reassurance when you’re anxious is a coping mechanism that can lead to a recurring cycle.

You can do this, even on your own. You don’t need reassurance. You’re strong enough to commit to goals and persist with them until you achieve them, regardless of the anxiety you feel.

You got this far and your not dead and your life is still great and you are getting married, that alone proves you can do it, plus you have been feeling unwell which is bound to make you tired and low,

Lets dance :)
(i’m dancing here for you in the back yard, you should join me, its fun!)

looking at it from a different angle,
maybe to get addicted to a good habit would help you overcome…
like, whenever you feel you panic, start cooking.

just a thought…

Awww hun your doing great!!!! I know you can pull through this and go on your wonderful honeymoon!!!! Your going to have a blast!

When you worry, you think there’s a good reason for it. That’s your first mistake. Your animal brain generates emotions. It’s constantly doing this. That is its job. Your thinking brain interprets those emotions. When you have an anxiety issue, your thinking brain spends way too much time interpreting the emotions and looking for reasons to justify them.

That’s what worrying is. I feel tense, what’s wrong? Let me see all the things that COULD be wrong or COULD go wrong… and you feel more tense… so you feel you must be on the right track…etc.

That is the spiral of anxiety.

The only way out is to recognize the sensations and not chase after them, not explain them. Accept them just as sensations that happen. Life remains the same regardless of whether you worry or not. Feel the sensation, accept it, but dont; dwell on it, don’t try to figure it out.

Instead, use your thinking brain to focus on your goals. Identify goals, commit to them, persist until your anxiety turns to relief. You will retrain yourself not to dwell on emotions and drown in them, but instead acknowledge them but persevere with your intentions.

I don’t really have enough time right now to read all the replies above mine, so I apologise if I happen to repeat someone else’s ideas.

But honestly, Nat, you’re a great person and you have a GREAT life. You have a wonderful fiance and an awesome family from what we’ve talked about. I’m not saying you don’t have reason to panic, or feel down, I’m just saying you have SO MUCH in your life to be happy about. I’d like to think I’m helping, but in all reality, it’s you alone who can help you. You don’t need me telling you all thats good in your life, you already know that! =) Just keep your head held high and never forget just how truely lucky and WONDERFUL you are!! As always, the very best of luck to you!!!!
-Erika

Your thinking to much about them and that is why they are not going away hun. If you concentrate on something is it going to go away? No because your concentrating on it silly!

You really are a wonderful person and you have lots of good things going on in your life. Be glad to have at least found someone who is willing to be there by your side and help you through all of this! Your strong and smart and you can bet this thing! Stop thinking that since your off ytour meds them something bad will happen because if you think about it then it will!

The world is full of crappy things and if we worry about them all the time they stay fresh in our minds and dont go away. You should try to think about something else when these thoughts come in to your head. Make a plan with yourself or your soon-to-be hubby! Make a plan that if the convo comes up or you tell him that your panicky, both of you start talking about something else! Get your mind off of it! Dance with him, chase him, do something fun! Talk about your honeymoon and the things you want to do!

You can do it girl! Im having trouble keeping things off my mind too but im trying really hard and i know we BOTH can do this!!!! YAY!!!! WE CAN DO IT!!!!

one day at a time.

What’s your feel good distraction? You go for a walk or got some music or food prepared?

You can do it :-)

Sorry to hear you had a panic attack. Those are nasty.

They come out of that spiral of anxiety. The more you focus on your feelings and your physical reaction to them, the more you create a self-fullfilling prophecy, a chain reaction.

The key is to focus on breathing (breathe out twice as much as you breath in… breathing out relaxes… count in the breaths in and out and keep working on making that number larger… 1 and 2, 2 and 4, 3 and 6)

I’ve been there. It’s nasty. But if you remind yourself there are just sensations and don’t mean anything, like a car dashboard indicator that is faulty (like a broken check engine or check oil light) then you can stay in control.

You can do it!

yay!!! three cheers for NAT!!! You seem like you are doing really good, as hard as it is to kick the meds. We’re all here for you if you ever need to talk or vent… YOU GOT THIS GIRL…;D

Feelings lie at the foundation. Mood is above feelings. Attitude is above mood. And action is above attitude.

If you let feelings determine your mood, your attitude and your actions during the day will suffer.

If you practise, you can detect your feelings and choose to protect your mood and your attitude and not let the feelings drag you down. They don’t represent reality.

4 weeks, that’s a milestone.
if you can do six, then it gets easier from then on.

i’m so proud of you!

work can be a real stressor, just take a moment to take a deep breath and tell yourself “this too is temporary the moment /hour/day will pass.