When you need to address generalized anxiety disorder, it can often be difficult to find a good option. But if you stick to some very basic rules, you can have wonderful success. The most important of these rules is to surround yourself with recovery instead of negativity. This might sound like a unusual idea, but once I’ve explained the reasoning behind it, you’ll see why it makes sense.
To get to grips with this new idea of surrounding yourself with recovery, you need to learn all about the opposite of what this is. The opposite to this is surrounding yourself with negativity. This includes all those things you do that are negative and inspired or controlled by your anxiety: hanging around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on suffering with anxiety.
All these things have the potential to lock your mind on your anxiety. Even worse, this can often lead to your taking all the weight on your own shoulders from the anxiety-related problems of others. That’s why surrounding yourself with negativity like this can be so harmful. In the worst cases, this negativity can totally stop all the progress you’re making in stopping your anxiety for good.
So if that’s “surrounding yourself with negativity,” what’s “surrounding yourself with recovery” and how is it different? It’s essentially avoiding everything that I outlined a moment ago: so stop talking to others who are suffering with anxiety right now, stop visiting online forums that focus solely on anxiety, and stop reading books that focus on your anxiety as it is right now.
Just stopping these things will solve your problem of “surrounding yourself with negativity.” But how do you “surround yourself with recovery?” Well, you just need to do the opposite of everything you’ve been doing until this point right now.
Here’s how to do that: don’t hang around with people with anxiety, hang out with people who had anxiety in the past but got over it. Don’t hang out on message boards with people who have anxiety, hang out on message boards with people who had anxiety in the past and got over it. Don’t read books about people who have anxiety, read books about people who had anxiety in the past but got over it.
Rather than reading books that focus on how to stop your anxiety, pick books that were written by people who genuinely lived with the problems themselves and found a way to stop it. This basic approach will quickly lead you away from surrounding yourself with negativity and lead you towards surrounding yourself with recovery. Very quickly indeed you’ll be in much better mental shape.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our energy thinking about and focusing on. So when you start spending your time on recovery instead of the negative things, you can’t help but start moving directly towards your goal of an anxiety free life.
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