See, the thing is, no one is as lucky as the GAD sufferer claims to be.
The_Strange_Remain 13 points·3 years ago·edited 3 years ago
Actually you touched upon a massive fallacy that causes people with GAD to enter a negative feedback loop.
So many GAD sufferers view their continued existence as a stroke of luck. "I got through the last attack by the skin of my teeth. But THIS time is the real deal. I'm actually dying this time." Nope. Still just GAD and mostly benign physically, despite how truly awful it feels subjectively.
See, the thing is, no one is as lucky as the GAD sufferer claims to be. You may get through a serious event once, MAYBE twice. But you're not going to "survive" a serious health event 20, 30, 40 times. And that's precisely the wiring you have to disconnect. You have to drill into yourself that you're fine, just not having a happy time and it will pass. It always does.
Your job isn't to stop your anxiety attack. You can't really. Once that adrenaline gets into your bloodstream only metabolism can stop it. The good news is if you can eat and live, and you can if you're reading this, then you WILL come down off the attack. It's proof your metabolic processes work at least well enough. Your job is not to stop the attack, but to make yourself as comfortable as possible until it ends, inside and out.
For some of you this wall text will seem obvious to the point of irrelevance. But, speaking from experience, you'd be surprised how few people really know this stuff. At least for me, this was the key to the car. I didn't know it right away, but as soon as I'd figured this out I was the one driving this life, not my anxiety. I now almost never have attacks and when I do they're manageable and do not dictate my actions, thoughts, or interactions. Obviously, GAD is a huge blanket term for a bunch of individual issues. Your mileage will vary. But if it worked for me it's got to work for someone else.
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Actually you touched upon a massive fallacy that causes people with GAD to enter a negative feedback loop.
So many GAD sufferers view their continued existence as a stroke of luck. "I got through the last attack by the skin of my teeth. But THIS time is the real deal. I'm actually dying this time." Nope. Still just GAD and mostly benign physically, despite how truly awful it feels subjectively.
See, the thing is, no one is as lucky as the GAD sufferer claims to be. You may get through a serious event once, MAYBE twice. But you're not going to "survive" a serious health event 20, 30, 40 times. And that's precisely the wiring you have to disconnect. You have to drill into yourself that you're fine, just not having a happy time and it will pass. It always does.
Your job isn't to stop your anxiety attack. You can't really. Once that adrenaline gets into your bloodstream only metabolism can stop it. The good news is if you can eat and live, and you can if you're reading this, then you WILL come down off the attack. It's proof your metabolic processes work at least well enough. Your job is not to stop the attack, but to make yourself as comfortable as possible until it ends, inside and out.
For some of you this wall text will seem obvious to the point of irrelevance. But, speaking from experience, you'd be surprised how few people really know this stuff. At least for me, this was the key to the car. I didn't know it right away, but as soon as I'd figured this out I was the one driving this life, not my anxiety. I now almost never have attacks and when I do they're manageable and do not dictate my actions, thoughts, or interactions. Obviously, GAD is a huge blanket term for a bunch of individual issues. Your mileage will vary. But if it worked for me it's got to work for someone else.
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