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Originally Posted by Welf
I agree with you Odee, I believe fear or anxiety is the most adaptive thing once it gets involved with your perception. it can be situated anywre even if its not a threatening situation or we have never been anxious about the situation before!
Getting it out of our conscience as thretning or stressful is were the real problem lies. I think the more we try to deal with it the worse it gets as we give greater attention to it. But trying not to give attention to it may be even worse than that in the first place as your trying to avoid the thought of it. I guess for you as you do not expect it it may be different, but for me i believe i cause it through my thoughts. I never used to be an anxious person before my panic attack and so maybe thats the reason i believe that if i forgot i had this i would never construct a building of situations were it may happen again.
I agree with wat yous said about the addition of stress and depression as one act leads to another. I think the positive feedback loop you are talking about should not be destroyed it should be accepted understood and let it pass as many other things do. We anxious people seem to be so stigmatised by it that we do not seem to accept these things..
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
~Eckhart Tolle
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do expect my panic attacks,
now. Now they are frequent and expected, I have generalized anxiety most of the time. I was never a highly anxious person until two years ago, when the GAD and panic has been harsh. The first anxiety attacks I had were isolated cases that I didn't realize were panic attacks and I did not have GAD -- and I think one of the reasons I never adopted a fear of them that could make them happen was because I never knew they were stress induced. They were unpleasant and intense, but in the end it was like "whew, that was weird, moving on now."
I still think panic attacks would happen out of stress even if I didn't fuel the positive feedback loop, but I still know that my fear of them, tied to particular situations, worsens it. I help cause my attacks as well.
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I think the positive feedback loop you are talking about should not be destroyed it should be accepted understood and let it pass as many other things do. We anxious people seem to be so stigmatised by it that we do not seem to accept these things..
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I love this!
