Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder can often be totally successful, but only if you stick to some basic, sensible guidelines. The first of these fundamental guidelines that should always be followed is to “surround yourself with recovery.” The idea of “surrounding yourself with recovery” is probably pretty new for you, but in a moment you’ll fully understand this idea, and more importantly, you’ll understand how to stick to this fundamental guideline and cause your recovery to go into overdrive.
To grasp this idea of surrounding yourself with recovery it’s essential that you first understand what is the opposite of this, and that’s the surrounding yourself with negativity bit. When you’re someone who surrounds yourself with negativity, you’ll typically spend a lot of time (online and offline) around people who have the same anxiety-related problems as you. You’ll also frequently read books and internet message boards that focus on anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety trap that it’s hard to break away from. You start feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be awful; it’s difficult enough just dealing with your own problems. When this happens, this is a classic case of surrounding yourself with complete negativity. You don’t want to be in a position like this, because it can single-handedly prevent all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
So now you get what the idea of surrounding yourself with negativity is all about, now you need to know what surrounding yourself with recovery is all about. Really, at its core, this is about avoiding everything I mentioned just now. So no longer talking to other people who also have anxiety problems at the moment, no more going to forums full of people who are troubled with anxiety, and no more books that are focused solely on living with anxiety.
If you do nothing but halt these basic things, the problem of surrounding yourself with negativity will quickly become history. But once you’ve achieved that, how do you go about surrounding yourself with recovery? Simple: you just do the opposite of what you’ve been doing up until now.
So rather than hanging around others who are suffering with anxiety and panic, hang around with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but found a way to beat it. Rather than hanging out at message boards full of people with anxiety, hunt out forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way through them.
These things are simple, I know, but they work. Trust me. These things will lead you away from negativity and towards recovery.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our energy thinking about and focusing on. So when you start spending your time on recovery instead of the negative things, you can’t help but start moving quickly towards your goal of an anxiety free life.
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