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It's amazing how meditation can open up new perspectives like that, especially one's that show how silly life can be sometimes. I've been reading the Mindful Path Through Shyness, since it's applicable to my social anxiety. For you, I think The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992), might be of help. I personally haven't read it, but it'd guess it teaches the same principles of what I'm reading, just less targeted.
Hi, I'm a therapist by day job but don't take this as substitute for the guidance of a professional that actually knows who you are and has assessed your needs effectively. =)
I'm curious how serious and pervasive anxiety is for you. If anxiety prevents you from living daily life, keeping a job, or doing the activities you love, the potential side effects may be worth the improvements to your life. Also, some people experience anxiety all the damn time and others just at certain times - like at jiu-jitsu or especially competition! The fact that you practice jiu-jitsu is a good sign and a strength to remember - despite anxiety, you're out and doing something that most people on the planet are neither courageous nor humble enough to do!
If you haven't worked with a therapist that specifically treats anxiety, I would recommend considering whether learning new ways to try coping would be less intimidating than a psychotropic treatment. Between coaching jiu-jitsu and working as a therapist, I've seen how practicing thinking changes and using mindfulness technique can make anxiety manageable! I personally have some biofeedback techniques that I use to manage competition anxiety during training camp and on competition day.
Again, nothing beats having a treatment team that you trust and feel heard by. If you don't, I recommend looking for a therapist that uses the ACT model for treating anxiety in your area. I can also recommend the self-help book The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992 ) Good luck!
You're welcome. My dad's a G.P. and he got copies of these for every one in my family. They are amazing.
Other good ones to look at are:
And for a refreshingly new approach:
Ugh, anxiety is the worst. I had a few years of it and would not wish it on my worst enemy. That constant feeling of dread and like something is chasing you to kill you.
One of the things that helped me tremendously was this workbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety-Commitment/dp/1572244992
I say that it saved my life, and it really did. It was a different approach to anxiety - instead of trying to get rid of it (because you can't), the work is done to lean into it, make room for it, see it for what it is - physical sensations, thoughts and behaviors - accept that it is there, and then move your hands and feet towards the life you value, instead of the tiny miserable life that anxiety wants you to have.
When I first starting working through it, I got mad. "My anxiety is justified! I should feel like this all the time because things are terrible! This author doesn't understand and this is all b.s." But I kept at it because things couldn't really get worse.
By the end of it, I had located the author's email address and written him a letter that he had basically saved my life.
Stopping drinking doesn't have to be the first step in recovery. Alcohol is a solution to the anxiety. Taking it away before you have any other coping skills in place is understandably a terrifying thought.
But you can start to build up support systems and other coping mechanisms, and then revisit the drinking later.
You may also want to point your family in the direction of this program: https://alliesinrecovery.net/
Good luck! Stick around if you feel like it. I read here for a long time here before I stopped (and was in therapy for longer.)
These books helped me with my anxiety issues.
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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
Works on helping you understand and accept anxiety instead of fighting or suppressing it. Worked really well for me.
Edit; the authors have another book along the same lines for depression
I'm a serious introvert myself, so this is a topic of some considerable interest to me. :)
Introversion is not necessarily associated with anxiety, in that the traits are not that highly correlated and lots of introverts are not anxious. However, many people who are both introverted and anxious find that the two are intertwined. When that is the case, then getting better at coping with the anxiety can help you be more flexible in being introverted. There are a million self-help anxiety books, and most of them are pretty good because they are based on cognitive-behavioral principles. Personally, however, I am more intrigued by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas, as described in books like Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, The Happiness Trap, and The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety.
While we're on the topic of reading, if you haven't found it already, I'd suggest The Introvert Advantage -- a great book focusing on accepting, accommodating, and even feeling pretty good about your introversion.
Introversion appears to be very genetically-based and resistant to change, so accepting being an introvert will be an important first step. Introversion is not, in and of itself, healthy or unhealthy, although when you are surrounded by extroverts and a culture that values extroversion, it sure can feel like being introverted is unhealthy. IMHO, traits are only a problem when people are inflexible about applying them... that is, when they can only behave one way regardless of the situation. When people are interested in changing who they are, I often suggest, instead, trying to change how flexible they are about how they display the trait they are interested in changing.
To do that, you could think about the situations in which you are less introverted, and trying to figure out what it is about those situations that allow you to be less introverted. For me, I do better in situations that are structured, familiar, and relevant to my interests -- in those types of situations, you literally cannot shut me up. So, I can be more extroverted when I'm with a small group of good friends, or when I'm meeting a new therapy client for the first time (which is structured because I know exactly what I'm going to say), or when I'm commenting on reddit, or even when I'm teaching a large class or giving a talk to a huge audience. In contrast, in a small group of people I do not know well, when meeting a new person socially for the first time, or when doing something spontaneous that would cause a lot of people to pay attention to me (e.g., something terrible like karaoke), I am not able to be extroverted. But, if I wanted to be more extroverted, I could work to make those types of situations more structured, more familiar, or more relevant to my interests. Does that make sense?
Oh, and one more thing -- please join the Neuropsychology Book Club I am trying to start... I'm hoping it will be really interesting, especially for us voracious readers!!
zen meditation has helped me a ton.
as /u/BornOn8thOfJuly said, continue to steer clear of the booze. no matter what, if I decide to drink (even just a couple glasses of wine), my anxiety is higher and my mood is lower the next morning. Most of my emotional breakdowns occur after a night of drinking.
I also would highly recommend The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
Best wishes, my friend!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992
ACT (highly regarded / researched mindfulness based therapy) incorporates a formal way of using mindfulness with anxiety. I can highly recommend this workbook:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992
It would be a disservice to paraphrase too much, as this is an experiential process, but in essence you are right - 'leaning in' to the feeling rather than avoiding it is key. Note how 'I am feeling anxious' is a statement that might enmesh you with that state. 'I notice that my mind is telling me I am anxious' or the like might be a better observation, as it acknowledges this is a story your mind is telling you because it is trying to be helpful, and you are not your mind. Trying to avoid feeling anxious will lock you in to it. Learning to observe and to move with it, to act in ways you value while your mind is telling you this story, will help you live meaningfully. And anxiety is a spiral - you feel anxious and trapped by feeling anxious etc. Mindfulness can go a long way towards removing that secondary distress, which then has the effect of defusing the primary distress.
For me, I accept that I am an 'anxious person' (and a happy one, and a calm one, and many other things besides), and millions of years of evolution and strong immediate family history and experiences with trauma have wired me that way. From time to time my mind tells me I am anxious. I thank it, and do not attach. And I go about moving towards my values. I believe this is often the goal - one learns to be present with one's experience, to hold a space open for it, without it freezing you up or causing you to negatively self-evaluate r run that story into other stories. It is merely an experience, a thought your mind is having. You do not need to get stuck in it, nor do you need to avoid it.
I recently started listening to this CD and using this workbook, its proven to be the most helpful too when I get bouts of anxiety!
There's therapeutical approaches that target people with multicultural backgrounds. If you're really struggling, I'd try to get diagnosed by a psych and then pursue sessions with a therapist who has experience with AAPI clients.
If that's too expensive and not worth your time, either the ACT handbook or the CBT handbook will do in a pinch.
http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Way-through-Anxiety-Chronic/dp/1606234641
http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety-Commitment/dp/1572244992/
Can you purchase things for yourself? Without monitoring by them at all? If so, I would advise you to purchase a workbook called the http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992 This is a book of exercises that you do every day, thought experiments, mindfulness exercises, writing exercises to help you learn how to identify anxiety triggers, and how to control how you think and react to them. REALLY, really helpful. Under $20. It can help a lot.
http://psychcentral.com/lib/5-steps-to-reduce-worrying-and-anxiety/0006636 I hope this can help a bit, too. It's free. :)
Ditto. I did therapy, but this book helped a lot: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347936657&sr=8-1&keywords=acceptance+and+mindfullness+workbook+for+anxiety
Yes. I haven't had the experience of working through it with a therapist, but this workbook helped me a lot, in terms of introducing me to meditation in a way that was productive for dealing with anxiety: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992
I suffered with pretty significant anxiety into my mid-twenties. CBT helped to a large extent and kind of took the edge off, but adding mindfulness to the equation was the key to overcoming it. This is the program I used, which has a lot of the same elements as CBT. Another option.
Hey man, I feel ya. I'm just wondering if you've thought about "Mindfulness and Acceptance" therapy (see this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992)? Its been the best approach for me in dealing with my anxiety, and I just read the book - no therapist.
This is basically practicing mindfulness.
Be present in yourself and just observe.
I bought this book cuz my therapist told me to: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572244992/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Oa.KDbT74PAEY
I didn’t even finish it and my anxiety changed for the better in only a couple weeks. I’ll always recommend it.
Panic disorder is, at its core, an anxiety disorder.
There's a million books out there on anxiety.
When I'm learning skills, I like to use client workbooks because they help me focus on the direct skills I need to learn.
I'd invite you to explore an ACT workbook like:
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https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety-Commitment/dp/1572244992
I'm sorry you're feeling so awful. Even without medical anxiety, it was all pretty overwhelming and scary at first. I had to give myself breaks from all the research I was doing. I even saw a psychologist for a few months to help me figure out how to deal with the anxiety caused by my thyroid issues. If you're interested, one of the books I read is called The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety.
Also, if you're on Facebook come join us in a group called Hashimoto Happiness! The only rule is your post has to be positive because it is meant to be a break from all the worry and crappy feelings we deal with everyday. I don't share much but it's a nice pick-me-up!
I've been really busy lately and haven't been able to make much progress with it, but I was really benefitting from this workbook: http://www.amazon.ca/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992
Go to the nearest bookstore and see if you can find it or a different one that sounds good to you. It's not the same as therapy obviously, as something that's kind of tailored for you specifically, but I think you may find some relief in working through a workbook like this. I was also able to find a free drop-in place for councilling here in Canada, not sure if they have anything like that where you are, but do look.
I can't say anything that can make this better for you, but I understand your fear and frustration; we all do. Take it one day at a time. Drink lots of water throughout the day and chamomile tea when you're starting to feel anxious. This will get better.
this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety/dp/1572244992.
Hang in there. If you're dead -- you're, well -- dead. I'm sure you have a lot worth fighting for. Look into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for anxiety. Check out this book, I recently picked it up, and I find this approach to be refreshing.
I don't really have any advice, but what you describe sounds eerily similar to me when I was in high school. My anxiety is much less debilitating now (I'm 23) but it is still very prevalent in my life. If you want someone to talk to, I'm totally down.
There's a Yahoo group for it. And for what it's worth, the ACT workbook I used isn't too high priced and is worth the purchase. I feel similarly to panicmonkey about CBT and ACT is the only thing that helped me to get better, even if I've struggled to keep it up over time.