Comments on: End Anxiety and Panic Attack Once & For All: http://www.treatment-for-anxiety.org/mental-health/end-anxiety-and-panic-attack-once-for-all.html Treatment for Anxiety and Panic Disorder Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cure Anxiety http://www.treatment-for-anxiety.org/mental-health/end-anxiety-and-panic-attack-once-for-all.html/comment-page-1#comment-2666 Cure Anxiety Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:07:31 +0000 http://www.treatment-for-anxiety.org/mental-health/end-anxiety-and-panic-attack-once-for-all.html#comment-2666 Through various methods of relaxation and calming words, you can slowly practice and change the anxious thoughts, you just need to know the methods and ways to practice your mind. Through various methods of relaxation and calming words, you can slowly practice and change the anxious thoughts, you just need to know the methods and ways to practice your mind.

]]> By: Dr Beverly Potter http://www.treatment-for-anxiety.org/mental-health/end-anxiety-and-panic-attack-once-for-all.html/comment-page-1#comment-2662 Dr Beverly Potter Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:47:25 +0000 http://www.treatment-for-anxiety.org/mental-health/end-anxiety-and-panic-attack-once-for-all.html#comment-2662 Worry is not an emotion. Worry is a style of thinking and thinking is a kind of internal behavior that is learned and thus can be changed. Thinking about dangers and possible negative events - worrying - triggers anxiety and anxiety triggers more worry. This vicious cycle can go on and on and it can escalate into panic attacks. Yes, changing negative "worry" thoughts to neutral ones can help. But it is not as easy to do as it sounds. And almost immediately the worry thought comes back. If it were easy, then worrywaritng would not be a problem. Expecting the worrywart to come up with a neutral though when worrywarting is a bit much. The worrywart needs to have already thought up neutral thoughts - and rehearsed them - in advance so that they are accessible. Otherwise this technique is useless. One method to come up with such neutral thoughts on the spot is for the worrywart to ask themselves, "What would a good friend say to me about this?" Then to deliberately say that and expect that the worry will creep back in. So they will have to stop and switch to the good friend thought over and over. For more info on worry, see: http://www.docpotter.com/Worry_art.html Worry is not an emotion. Worry is a style of thinking and thinking is a kind of internal behavior that is learned and thus can be changed. Thinking about dangers and possible negative events – worrying – triggers anxiety and anxiety triggers more worry. This vicious cycle can go on and on and it can escalate into panic attacks.

Yes, changing negative “worry” thoughts to neutral ones can help. But it is not as easy to do as it sounds. And almost immediately the worry thought comes back. If it were easy, then worrywaritng would not be a problem. Expecting the worrywart to come up with a neutral though when worrywarting is a bit much. The worrywart needs to have already thought up neutral thoughts – and rehearsed them – in advance so that they are accessible. Otherwise this technique is useless.

One method to come up with such neutral thoughts on the spot is for the worrywart to ask themselves, “What would a good friend say to me about this?” Then to deliberately say that and expect that the worry will creep back in. So they will have to stop and switch to the good friend thought over and over.

For more info on worry, see: http://www.docpotter.com/Worry_art.html

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