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Anxious? Here is Help

July 21, 2014AnxietyAnxiety, Courage, Fear, fighting anxiety, fighting ocd, help for ocd, help with ocd, how to fight OCD, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, OCD, OCD and Anxiety, ocd anxiety, ocd fears, ocd help, ocd therapy, ocd tools, surviving anxiety, tools for anxiety, tools for coping with anxiety, tools for ocdGregory Sansone

Be brave, courageous. Let go of being in control and worrying about losing that edge. And go on anyway. That’s courage.

Try to sit with your anxiety. It’s the trying that’s important. The invasive thoughts will occur. Just keep trying to refocus on what you are reading, watching on TV, etc.

You will find out that you can go on in the face of the anxiety, that you will not “Lose your mind.”

Call fear and OCD’s bluff and discover if what you fear is true. Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe your thoughts. Find out if it is true through actions. No thoughts. Fear hates discovery and choice because it unveils the empty threat.

Anything you can do to interrupt the loop will start to create new neural pathways. This is when the hard-wiring that has been going on, because of the anxiety, will begin to stop.

3 Ways to Deal with Anxiety

July 18, 2014AnxietyAnxiety, Courage, fighting anxiety, OCD and Anxiety, ocd tools, surviving anxiety, tools for anxiety, tools for coping with anxiety, tools for ocdGregory Sansone

1) Negative: being intolerant, looking to escape, avoiding, relief seeking

2) Neutral: Ignore, going on with things without responding to the anxiety, just shifting focus

3) Positive: Choose to make space for it to be there. Acknowledge its presence and allow it to remind you as often as need be that it is still there and then do a healthy behavior anyway.

OCD & Certainty

June 13, 2014OCD, Uncertaintyadapting to change, Anxiety, certainty, dealing with change, dealing with uncertainty, fighting anxiety, fighting ocd, help for ocd, help with ocd, living a healthy life, needing certainty, needing order, needing safety, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, OCD, ocd therapy, ocd tools, OCD treatment, positive living, surviving anxiety, tools for anxietyGregory Sansone

OCD demands certainty in order for us to be safe and happy. In reality, listening to OCD guarantees us danger and misery.

In living a healthy life we don’t pursue perfect safety, rather, we commit our lives to growth and adapt to change.

More Tools for Extreme Anxiety

June 9, 2014Anxietyfighting anxiety, help for ocd, ocd therapy, tools for anxiety, tools for depressionGregory Sansone

As promised, here are a few more statements and thoughts for you to use when dealing with intense anxiety.

1) I’m gonna let it roll. I’m gonna let the thoughts and the anxiety be there and see what happens.

2) Let it be in the space.

3) You’re stronger if you can allow yourself to feel remarkably weak.

4) Just soak it in.

5) I’m just going to be how I am and I’m not gonna do that stuff I was doing.

6) Be and feel weak and just go on with your day. Accept and get used to it.

7) I’m prepared to shake it all up.

8) It’s exciting to see you go through this growth. Let’s see how far we can do this.

9) I’m still here.

10) Don’t know if I can handle it, but I’m just going in anyway.