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Old Mar 26, 2011, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by christophegeorg View Post
To those who have the ever present obsessive trepidation every morning and have no idea why, the answer is you carry over the fearful feeling from the night before and when you wake, the first thing on your mind is will I feel the same way today, and your mindset obliges you and does the very thing that your afraid of because you have already set the groundwork for it. I remember how it felt every morning before I even opened my eyes, that question was number one on my mind! The first few doctors I went to had no idea of what anxiety disorder really was, aside from a clinical diagnosis they had no answer then that many do not have today, let me add, that doctors today will offer a clinical diagnosis but are unable to see this disorder from the patients point of view, believe me the two are not the same!! I'll be happy to entertain questions from the medical community if there are any!! People who see doctors today about an anxiety problem should be offered an explanation about why their recurrent attacks happen, I give all my word, not knowing that answer is what made the term of my disorder so long, the fear of not knowing what and why!
Thank you for reading my post!!!

With all due respect, if it was as simple as making a "Cognitive Shift", nobody would have an Anxiety Disorder. Come to think of it, if it was that simple, nobody would have Depression either.

Clearly your "Cognitive Shift" technique has worked for you, and it may well work for others. That is all well and good. But it does not work for everybody.

Furthermore, you are not me, and you cannot presume to know what will work for me. Please speak for yourself and not for me.
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