Comments for Oh! Hello again... I thought you'd gone! at http://www.panicsurvivor.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.panicsurvivor.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:36:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.panicsurvivor.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=72&lang=en&show=Oh-Hello-again...-I-thought-youd-gone-.html#comment-17751 Well, unfortunately I can relate. I was okay from 1990 until 2004. I thought I had kissed all of my problems goodbye. It's not that I don't like the person I've become AGAIN. It's that I'm disappointed I'm here again. I feel that anxiety is my "New Normal" That doesn't mean I've given up. It just means that I will probably always deal with this at some level. My psychiatrist says that on the bell curve, I am more prone to anxiety than the average person, but that doesn't make us "sniveling little scared people". Our minds are wired differently than most people's, and to be perfectly honest, I'd like to see other people deal with what we deal with on a regular basis! A friend of ours had a night of panic attacks years ago - had never happened to him, hasn't happened since. He told his wife that he couldn't believe how bad this thing I had to deal with was. So you see, we're actually stronger than we think. I rely on my faith to get me through. I also use strategies I read about in a book on anxiety. Beating yourself up won't help a bit. You have to be gentle with yourself. Celebrate your victories, no matter how small. We have - what is it? a disability of sorts. Ours isn't as visible as a wheelchair, but it's as real. Give yourself a break. Grieve over what you can't do, and move forward and enjoy your life as much as possible. I'm about half- way through mine, and I can tell you it goes by fast! Be kind to yourself. - Loves October Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:09:30 +0100