Too many people spend too much time trying to find a reason for why they feel like they do, searching for that childhood memory that they believe must have trigerred it off in the first place.  In some cases, something may have happened in a person's earlier life that they may need to talk through with a professional and, if this is the case, then it may help to do this before they can start on the road to recovery.  In a lot of cases, however, too much importance is placed on finding a root cause.  Surely the only thing that really matters is, not why we began to feel like this in the first place, but how to recover.

 

So if you find yourself backtracking in an attempt to find a root cause for the way you feel and you believe that gaining this knowledge is an important part of recovery, then go ahead and find a professional with whom you can talk things through.  If, however, you are like me and it no longer matters how it all started and all you want to do is recover, then let it go, just move on and concentrate on what is important to you - recovery.

 

"You have no control over the past but you do have control over your future."

 

So many people say that when they have recovered, they feel more confident and enjoy life even more than they did before they became ill.  Well you certainly appreciate things a lot more and the trivial things in life seem just that - unimportant.

 

The right way to recover from anxiety is through patience and understanding.  You first need to understand that your body and mind are tired and they need a break from this daily battle you have with yourself.  You need to begin to work and live with the feelings that are there, for the time being, and not try and fight and think your way better.  Start by beginning to accept these feelings and you may begin to feel some peace.

 

Too many people with anxiety want to find that elusive miracle cure, they become impatient and do not realize this can be the very thing that is keeping them in the cycle.  Yes, we all want to be better today, not tomorrow, but this is what keeps us ill - impatience.  We search around thinking there must be something out there, something we have missed, so we go from one idea to another, praying that each will work and within a couple of weeks/months, we feel we are back to square one.  Do not be impatient with yourself, watching the weeks go by and thinking you should be better by now.  You are just putting more pressure on yourself.  Let your body recover at its own pace and do not watch anxiously for recovery.

 

Choose one road to follow and stick to it.  It stops all that searching around in your mind for an answer, tiring your mind even further and putting you under more stress and pressure when this is the last thing you need.  Forget that miracle cure that has eluded you; it is not there.  You did not feel like this overnight and you won't be cured overnight; your body needs time to heal.  Once you are on the road to recovery, it can be great just to experience the improvement in the way you feel.

 

The more you learn to accept and let go, the more your body will respond to your new way of thinking.  Recovery will come, but let it happens in its own time; please don't put a time limit on it.  Everybody is different and some people will recover more quickly than others.

 

Sometimes this new way of thinking will make sense one day and come easily, then it will be gone the next.  This is something that happened to me but it's just your memory trying to suck you back into old habits.  Accept these days and keep practicing the new way until it becomes your new habit.  Just stay on the road and as memory fades, your new habits will take over.