Overcoming Anxiety – Self Help Tips

Anyone can apply the principles of self-help for overcoming anxiety. It doesn’t matter if your Anxiety is mild or severe, new or long-standing. There is always something you can do to start yourself on the road to recovery. Here’s whats needed.

Commitment:
You may be at the stage of researching your options and that’s fine. Then, when you’re ready to get started it’s best to do so with the determination to give your work a fair chance.

Time:
You’ll need to set aside some time every day for working on overcoming anxiety. The amount of time needed will vary from person to person. Many of the tasks you undertake will not be too demanding, and may even be pleasurable.

Patience:
There is no miracle cure or magic wand to cure anxiety. The early stages your progress may seem painfully slow. But stick with it! You’ll find that you do make progress and it does get easier.

Motivation:
How badly do you want to be free of your Anxiety? Your answer to this question is what gives you motivation, and our experience shows that most sufferers have plenty of it.

Courage:
You probably like you don’t have a log of courage at the moment, but ask yourself “How hard is it to face every day knowing that I might have a panic attack”. Doesn’t that take some courage?

Support:
If you’re like most people, you don’t like to admit to having an Anxiety problem. So finding someone you trust to support you will help you through the difficult patches.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. How committed are you to overcoming anxiety?
   A bit/quite a lot/100%
2. How much time can you give each day to the work?
   Very litlee/30 minutes/at least an hour
3. Are you prepared to wait a while for the results to show?
   Yes/No
4. How do you feel about living with an Anxiety disorder?
   Not bothered/fairly unhappy/find it unbearable
5. Are you ready to face up to what needs to be done?
   Yes/No
6. Have you found a source of support?
   Yes/No

You might find these questions annoying. Do you feel like yelling “of course I’m committed and motivated, just show me what to do”? Well, that’s a good sign.

It’s OK to get angry or upset – anger gives you energy, just what you need right now.

One of the the hardest things for many Anxiety sufferers is simply finding the time for a recovery program. Many sufferers are busy people, juggling family, work and Anxiety in one endless rush.

Many ssufferers simply find it very difficult to allocate enough time at first for actually dealing with and overcoming anxiety, but gradually this will change, life will be less frantic, and you will have more time available.