Are you beginning to wonder why your attempts to cure your anxiety attacks are failing? If so, this might help. You might have to read this several times to grasp the message. It’s a bit complicated.

Every one of us created our very own environment. Over a lifetime, we decided who will be our friends, where we’ll live, what work we’ll do, whether to be married or not, whether to live alone or not, whether to have pets, what things will surround us, what kind of home we’ll create, and a variety of other things.

We also decided what type of person we will be, how we will react to our environment and how we will respond to other people. We will have become friendly or standoffish, caring and compassionate or unconcerned, patient or impatient, hard working or laid back, polite or rude, happy or sad, responsible and trustworthy or unreliable and foolish, etc.

Over the years, we’ve become comfortable in that environment. Until one day, something happened to trigger our very first anxiety attack. Suddenly, we doubt ourselves and our environment. After all, what we are is based on the decisions we’ve made, and over time we’ve trusted in those decisions. That first anxiety attack is enough to trigger a lack of confidence in ourselves and our choices.

In other words, you might come to doubt your abilities to survive. If you can’t rely on yourself, who can you rely on? You come to doubt the world you know – the ‘world’ you’ve built for yourself. You doubt the way you’ve decided to respond to all those things because suddenly those decisions are shaken.

That’s when anxiety and panic disorder take over. It’s important to understand that the fear, despite how upsetting, is meant to protect you, not only from real danger, but from things that you ‘perceive’ as dangerous, such as being embarrassed or ridiculed or of losing some aspect of your ‘environment’.

Your anxiety attack has done two things. It has changed how you react to your environment and it’s made it necessary for you to make additional changes in order to fix it. A double-whammy.
 
Believe it or not, you’ve now learned and become accustomed to reacting with fear, and if you cure your anxiety, you will no longer be fearful. And that is enough to send you into a cycle of fear. Fear of change. You fear the change that’s already happened, and you fear the change that’s needed to achieve anxiety relief. Strange, but true.

Did you know that while you are beginning any anxiety treatment, it is likely that you will feel some agitation and even experience anxiety attacks? That’s why. You will think your treatment isn’t working, when in fact your mind is resisting the change.

That’s because change represents loss – loss of the now familiar feelings of ‘anxiety’ and ‘doubt’ . Loss of anxiety (fear response) means a change in your environment. It’s seen as a threat (an anxiety trigger), even though you know it’s for the good.

Understand this transition process. Stay focused on anxiety relief, rather than on the anxiety disorder. Believe that this change is good. Build your confidence levels and you will be more receptive to that change. You will have more success with your anxiety treatment.

Recovery is a juggling act, but one that you can achieve with confidence and determination.

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