Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder can often be totally successful, but only if you stick to some basic, sensible guidelines. The first of these fundamental guidelines that should always be followed is to “surround yourself with recovery.” The idea of “surrounding yourself with recovery” is probably pretty new for you, but in a moment you’ll fully understand this idea, and more importantly, you’ll understand how to stick to this fundamental guideline and cause your recovery to go into overdrive.
To get to grips with this new concept of surrounding yourself with recovery, you need to understand all about the opposite of what this is. The opposite to this is surrounding yourself with negativity. This includes all those things you do that are negative and inspired or controlled by your anxiety: hanging around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on suffering with anxiety.
These things cause your mind to stay locked onto your anxiety disorder. Worse still, you’ll begin to feel the weight of other people’s anxiety problems as well, simply by spending time reading about or listening to their own stories of anxiety. This is “surrounding yourself with negativity,” and it can be extremely damaging. In some cases, it can completely stop your progress towards overcoming your anxiety related problems.
So if that’s “surrounding yourself with negativity,” what’s “surrounding yourself with recovery” and how is it different? It’s essentially avoiding everything that I outlined a moment ago: so stop talking to others who are suffering with anxiety right now, stop visiting online forums that focus solely on anxiety, and stop reading books that focus on your anxiety as it is right now.
Guess what? If you can stop doing these few things, you’ll no longer be surrounding yourself with negativity. So that’s half the battle won. But how do you then move onto surrounding yourself with recovery? The answer, thankfully, is simple: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you start doing the opposite.
Here’s how to do that: don’t hang around with people with anxiety, hang out with people who had anxiety in the past but got over it. Don’t hang out on message boards with people who have anxiety, hang out on message boards with people who had anxiety in the past and got over it. Don’t read books about people who have anxiety, read books about people who had anxiety in the past but got over it.
Instead of reading books that concentrate on how to beat your anxiety, read books written by people who’ve already had anxiety and overcome it. These simple things will get you away from “surrounding yourself with negativity” and take you into the land of “surrounding yourself with recovery.” You’ll be in immediately better shape, and immediately put yourself on a much more healthy path that leads towards beating anxiety for good.
We tend to get what we think of or focus on. So it makes sense to put all your energy and focus on people who’ve been where you are now and turned everything around.
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