Dear Sufferer,
I felt I needed to write these words to you directly.
Are you always trying to work things out, afraid of doing some of the more ‘easy’ things in life others wouldn’t have a problem with, i.e. simple tasks such as needing some petrol in your car but making it into a really big ordeal because of the story you make up in your head.
Then you tell yourself off for not going, and you hit a downward spiral.
Do you keep thinking about past events and how you should have done it this way, or that way, but not the way you actually did it?. Or worrying about a previous incident that frightened you, worried that it will happen again?
This leads to more of a downward spiral, your life becomes restricted by your thinking, and your world becomes smaller and smaller.
Are you always trying to work things out? Wondering what is wrong with you, wondering if you have a terminal illness or some deep routed disease. Wondering if you should do this, or do that?
Do you worry about future events, wondering how you will feel? Hoping you will be o.k. and not feel anxious or have a panic attack?
Do you worry about past events and keep thinking back to them?
Do you have a constant thought going round and round in your head that sticks like glue, and you struggle to make a decision?
Welcome to the world of the sufferer.
You have been bluffed by your thinking for far too long. It’s your reactions to your thoughts that make you feel like you do.
A panic attack doesn’t just come from mid air. Preceding the panic were several thoughts leading up to it. For example you were in a town and had to walk past a shop where the last time you were in it you panicked.
This is the likely way you react:
1st thought “Oh! I will have to go past that shop”
2nd thought “The last time I went past here I had a panic attack”
3rd thought “I don’t want to go past it” (meanwhile your anxiety is building)
4th thought “It will be all right, it will be all right”(You are looking for reassurance within you, but it doesn’t work because you are still afraid)
5th thought “what’s happening to me?”
Then you have a full blown panic attack and you rush away to your safe place as fast as you can hoping know one realises what’s happening because you don’t want to fall apart.
I didn’t realise what I was doing to myself, I just thought I had these awful frightening feelings, and thinking I was dying.
I want to offer you hope because I spent 20+ years looking for someone to make me better, trying everything the health service had to offer, always going to the doctor’s with this symptom or that, feeling I was a nuisance, looking for a magic pill (there isn't one!) to make me better, looking elsewhere for help. I would feel o.k. for a while but my life was a rollercoaster of peaks and troughs.
Then I discovered the Freedom from Fear Recovery Programme this is when my life transformed.
I found someone who understood how I felt, and offered me a way of helping myself. His programme shows you the way out of this fear ridden place you find yourself in, by being explained to.
David Johnson made this programme as he was a sufferer to, but is now fully recovered!
I believe in this programme so much and I want to offer you hope.
I’m so much happier now and I believe so much in this programme I want to help fellow sufferers.
If you feel inside you have heard something that truly makes sense, and that you can relate to. Don’t let that voice of doubt inside let you ignore it and say it won’t work for me. It can work for you also. Today can be the day that you make the choice to change your life. You can help yourself to travel on your journey to recovery. If you keep doing what you have always done and you are not recovered perhaps now is the time to make new choices.
Call me and/or email me to ask me any questions you might have, or look at David Johnson’s website at www.healing-anxiety.com my testimonial is on it and gives you more information.