Treating Anxiety Disorder Yourself - SUCCESSFULLY
Do you know that I lost an entire decade of my life to anxiety disorder? Not my own anxiety disorder but my husband's.
Quite frankly I don't know which is worse, suffering from an anxiety disorder yourself or having to stand on the sidelines and watch someone you love suffer from one.
In the end I, no WE found treating anxiety disorder yourself - successfully! - is possible.
The road to freedom from anxiety for us took nearly ten years.
My husband's anxiety disorder developed before the internet became so very commonplace in all of our lives.
So there was not the easy access to information like we have today.
Neither of us had a name for what ailed him because anxiety disorder wasn't as prominently discussed as it is today.
All we knew is that out of the blue Rob's heart would start thumping, he'd feel dizzy and clammy - he was sure he was having a heartattack.
I'd rush him to the Emergency Room, the doctor would take some readings and tell us there was no heartattack.
Not only that, Rob's heart was strong and healthy.
I'd take him home, and before too long the symptoms struck again.
And they kept on happening.
Exhausted from worry we made an appointment with a heart specialist.
He couldn't find anything wrong either.
One afternoon I was having lunch with an acquaintance from my bookclub group.
I shared a little bit about what had been going with my husband's health and that the doctors were of no help.
"Sounds like anxiety disorder," she chirped.
Tears sprung to my eyes.
She had just thrown us a lifeline...
I had a name for what was ailing my husband and terrorizing both of our lives.
Going to doctors did not help in treating anxiety disorder in my husband's case.
Instead we did our own research.
We searched until we found the information that finally released my husband AND ME from the grip of panic attacks.
Quite frankly I don't know which is worse, suffering from an anxiety disorder yourself or having to stand on the sidelines and watch someone you love suffer from one.
In the end I, no WE found treating anxiety disorder yourself - successfully! - is possible.
The road to freedom from anxiety for us took nearly ten years.
My husband's anxiety disorder developed before the internet became so very commonplace in all of our lives.
So there was not the easy access to information like we have today.
Neither of us had a name for what ailed him because anxiety disorder wasn't as prominently discussed as it is today.
All we knew is that out of the blue Rob's heart would start thumping, he'd feel dizzy and clammy - he was sure he was having a heartattack.
I'd rush him to the Emergency Room, the doctor would take some readings and tell us there was no heartattack.
Not only that, Rob's heart was strong and healthy.
I'd take him home, and before too long the symptoms struck again.
And they kept on happening.
Exhausted from worry we made an appointment with a heart specialist.
He couldn't find anything wrong either.
One afternoon I was having lunch with an acquaintance from my bookclub group.
I shared a little bit about what had been going with my husband's health and that the doctors were of no help.
"Sounds like anxiety disorder," she chirped.
Tears sprung to my eyes.
She had just thrown us a lifeline...
I had a name for what was ailing my husband and terrorizing both of our lives.
Going to doctors did not help in treating anxiety disorder in my husband's case.
Instead we did our own research.
We searched until we found the information that finally released my husband AND ME from the grip of panic attacks.
