Treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), despite being tough, can be successful. To be successful, though, you need to stick to a few simple guidelines. The first guideline you need to stick to is to surround yourself with recovery. This is probably a new concept for you, but don’t worry – in a while I’ll explain what this concept involves, and you’ll see it’s not complicated at all.
To fully understand “surrounding yourself with recovery” we need to look at its opposite: “surrounding yourself with negativity.” “Surrounding yourself with negativity” is when most of your time is spent on the negative aspects of your generalized anxiety disorder: being around other people with anxiety problems, visiting forums and websites about anxiety, reading books on how to overcome your 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 damaging. In the worst cases, this negativity can totally stop all the progress you’re making in stopping your anxiety for good.
So now you know what the idea of surrounding yourself with negativity is all about, now you need to know what surrounding yourself with recovery is all about. Basically, at its core, this is about avoiding everything I mentioned just now. So no more talking to other people who also have anxiety problems at the moment, no more visiting forums full of people who are suffering with anxiety, and no more books that are focused only on living with anxiety.
If you do nothing but stop these fundamental things, the problem of surrounding yourself with negativity will quickly become history. But once you’ve done that, how do you go about surrounding yourself with recovery? Simple: you just do the opposite of what you’ve been doing up until now.
So rather than being around people who are suffering with anxiety and panic, hang around with people who suffered with anxiety in the past but discovered a way to beat it. Rather than hanging out at forums full of people with anxiety, hunt out forums that are full of people who had anxiety disorders but found a way through them.
Instead of reading books that concentrate on how to beat your anxiety, read books written by people who’ve already had anxiety and overcome it. These simple things will get you away from “surrounding yourself with negativity” and take you into the land of “surrounding yourself with recovery.” You’ll be in immediately better shape, and immediately put yourself on a much more healthy path that leads towards beating anxiety for good.
We tend to get what we think of or focus on. So it makes sense to put all your energy and focus on people who’ve been where you are now and turned everything around.
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