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just hang-on there buddy, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride but you’ll mananage :)

You know, anxiety management has a huge attitude component.

It is seductive but dangerous to rely on your meds and counselling as the “management” part of your anxiety. Anxious people become depressed and suicidal when they turn themselves into passive victims…. where they are always worrying about what will happen TO them (rather than planning what they will do and how and when).

That’s why suicide can be seductive… it feels like a concrete action, like doing something, like taking control.

Meds will affect your hormone levels and counselling may reassure you or explore reasons for your anxiety, but you have an opportunity to really turn things around… and that is by pushing yourself to confront each fear and to make plans and follow those plans to face those fears and become an active person in your life.

The more active you are, the more you develop new habits of facing those sensations of anxiety and relying on tools and skills to do it (rather than suffering through it), the more you will feel able to adapt to lives circumstances, and the less you will expect the world to change to make you feel better (and the less you will fight with the world and wear yourself out).

Instead, you will continue to develop new skills and coping habits and you will continue to build your confidence.