It was Sept 17, 2017 when I started my Anxiety recovery. I suffered my whole life with Anxiety and at the age of 26, I finally had enough.
A year prior to the start of my recovery, I was facing panic attacks and stress on a daily basis. I was drinking coffee daily, thinking about the future constantly, running around with my head cut off, and saying random things that I really didn’t want to say. My head was too deep in thought that I never stopped and realized that life would be so much better off without thinking so much.
When I was around 10 years old, I had my first panic attack. I was watching Mission Impossible with my parents when it finally struck. I started to focus on my breath and why i was having difficulty breathing. I then started to freak out and I ran upstairs in a panic thinking I was dying. My parents came to me and told me that the movie was too intense and I was just panicking. So I put my head between me legs, got myself together and finished the movie. But while I was finishing up the movie, I was still internally freaking out about what just happened. And as a Anxiety sufferer, I was an internal person.
It came a month before my recovery that I finally broke down. It was because of Health Anxiety (hypochondriac). I thought I had a serious illness on a daily basis. I thought I was dying and I had something wrong with my kidneys. I would see the doctor, the doctor would say everything is fine, then I would still have sensations and think I was still ill. So I went to the doctors again confused thinking that there is still something wrong with me. I would google my symptoms, I would buy supplements and lay in bed thinking that I needed rest when really, it was because of my Anxiety.
I always identified myself as an anxious person but I had no idea that it was just destroying my life. I wanted to be like my role models (Tom Hardy, Christopher Mccandless, Bob Dylan) and be free from this hold of worry and anxiousness. I wanted to pursue the things that I love without the fear I would fail. I wanted to be free of the few addictions in my life including weed and coffee. I then had to seek help because I couldn’t sleep, I had night shivers, and I was hardly eating. I reached rock bottom and needed a way back out.
I found a Life Coach and everything started to make sense. He was somebody I could relate to because he has been through the same thing as me. I knew if I set a contract for 3 months to overcome my Anxiety disorder and follow this man’s guidance, then I would come out the other side as a warrior instead of a worrier. It worked. I recovered, and I will help you, the Anxiety sufferer, to overcome it like I have.
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