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Hello everyone,
I'm Stella, one of the Patient team. We would love to hear about your most life changing tip or quote that really helped you with your anxiety.
It could be what someone told you when you were diagnosed or what you have learnt through experience. Anything you think would help someone else in a similar situation.
We will be sharing these on our social media channel to help more people deal with anxiety. If you prefer, we can keep your quote anonymous (so your forum name won't appear with your quote).
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Thank you so much for getting involved,
All the best
Stella - Patient
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anxiety92511 stella2
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tamaria_77104 stella2
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donna92581 stella2
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Hi Stella , my life did'nt change much with anxiety .
But a few tips helped me a lot .
- just ignore panic attack & thoughts
- learn to accept anxiety
- try to stay active
- do things that make you calm
- never Google symptoms
- trust doctors opinion
Donna
ll12333 donna92581
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ahmad80 donna92581
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gwen45436 ahmad80
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I find regular deep breathing several times a day good as it constantly releases toxins and calms your brain. And if I start dwelling on anxiety for no reason and feel a bit of panic starting, I change whatever I am doing straight away and say out loud - just go away, you are a pain in the btm. A hypnotherapist said to me when you feel it coming on shout STOP - I dont want you and also to force a big yawn which realises tension on the vagus nerve in your throat which you have constricted with unwanted thoughts. She said and like magic it will dispell. Not used it yet but know it is there if needed. Just will be a bit odd in a supermarket shouting STOP - will sound like a Citizens arrest lol.
jbc83 gwen45436
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thanks
liz25783 donna92581
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I need to stop googling symptoms. If I believed every self diagnose from Google, I would have a few types of cancer, some ailments that only males can have (I'm female), and who knows what else. That is a reason why I have health anxiety. At times I can tell myself not to Google my symptoms, and I won't. Other times, it doesn't work.
The "ignore panic attacks and thoughts" sometimes works with me. Sometimes when I have a pain that can "trigger" an attack, I can either can ibuprofen and after a while the pain goes away without me making a mountain out of a mole hill. Or I can try to do something to keep my mind busy to keep an attack from getting to bad. But it doesn't always work.
Alexboy104 donna92581
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Anxiety_Ninja liz25783
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I know how you feel. I tell myself... don't google them... and I succeed! Then I fail. Then I succeed again and so forth. Lol
samiya4499 ahmad80
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Psyched_Out_Kim stella2
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Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance. - Jeanne C. Stein
Needhelp_asap stella2
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I know this isn't an easy battle and everyone who is battling it, is a warrior! I've been diagnosed with GAD and Health anxiety and I know I will never be the same. The trick of anxiety is to accept it be a part of you and not fight it,the more you fight it, the bigger it gets and gets the most of you. There are going to be bad days, really bad days, just breathe in throughout these days and let it pass. Then, there are going to be the good days, seize them, go out, breathe in the fresh air, see all the little things we should be thankful of, don't try to understand everythingi n this life and just, do it. One step at a time! There are loads quotes out there that help me, but I'm just gonna post one of my favourites:
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.
-Elizabeth Taylor
Also, in rough times, I keep telling myself: ''It is what it is.''
Needhelp_asap
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I wouldn't mind my reply being posted with my name on the forum.
kelsey20458 Needhelp_asap
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ahmad80 kelsey20458
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Lou321 Needhelp_asap
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Thank you for that quote. I've been sitting on the couch for hours now not able to move. I'm going to get up and go outside now.
Thank you
liz25783 Needhelp_asap
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I am like you, I was diagnosed as GAD, but I feel like I also have health anxiety. I like how you said there are good days, bad days, and really bad days. At times, I have felt like there were days where I didn't really have any "attacks," but I was over thinking an ache or a pain. I didn't have the major characteristics of an anxiety/ panic attack, but I was just worries about what could happen or might happen.
dmott12985 liz25783
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I can soooooo relate to worrying about the possibility that an anxiety attack might happen.
That's my biggest problem!!! Once I feel even a little anxious I can NOT stop thinking about it. It takes days for me to get it out of my mind. I guess that's the crazy part of it all
I'm anxious bc I might have anxiety!!!
It's a vicious cycle that just repeats itself!
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