When you need to address generalized anxiety disorder, it can often be hard to find a successful option. But if you stick to some very simple rules, you can have wonderful success. The most important of these rules is to surround yourself with recovery instead of negativity. This might sound like a weird idea, but once I’ve explained the reasoning behind it, you’ll see why it makes sense.
To fully understand “surrounding yourself with recovery” we need to look at its opposite: “surrounding yourself with negativity.” “Surrounding yourself with negativity” is when most of your time is spent on the negative aspects of your generalized anxiety disorder: being around other people with anxiety problems, visiting forums and websites about anxiety, reading books on how to overcome your anxiety.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety loop that it’s impossible to break away from. You start feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be terrible; it’s hard enough just dealing with your own problems. When this occurs, this is a typical case of surrounding yourself with total 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 know 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 visiting forums full of people who are suffering with anxiety, and no more books that are focused just on living with anxiety.
Just stopping these things will solve your problem of “surrounding yourself with negativity.” But how do you “surround yourself with recovery?” Well, you just need to do the opposite of everything you’ve been doing until this point right now.
Instead of being around people who are suffering with anxiety problems of their own, surround yourself with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but have since recovered. Instead of studying forums and message boards that are full of people suffering with anxiety, visit forums and message boards that are full of people who’ve had generalized anxiety disorder and overcome it.
Rather than studying books that concentrate on how to stop your anxiety, choose books that were written by people who actually lived with the problems themselves and found a way to overcome it. This fool proof approach will quickly lead you away from surrounding yourself with negativity and lead you towards surrounding yourself with recovery. Very quickly indeed you’ll be in much better psychological shape.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our energy thinking about and focusing on. So when you begin 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.