Cristi T

The biggest help with my OCD and anxiety

Revisado: 01-15-19

I live in eastern Europe where people don't have yet a tendency towards therapy. Usually when you have problems you either ignore them until you can't or you go to a doctor which only gives you pills without any other counseling. I was hit very hard 2 years ago with anxiety. Every day I had multiple panic attacks. It was a nightmare. I thought I was really going crazy, like I will go to a point of no return, a point where I won't be conscious of my behavior. I was so scared every day. I ended at the psychiatrist office. I took pills for 9 months. I had a continuous improvement on my symptoms, but I always kept a fear of everything coming back to me. I put all this fear on the idea that the crises that I had initially where so traumatic, that I thought is normal to keep a little fear.
I wanted to say all of the above for all of you that think like me: a magic pill will solve everything. It doesn't! Everything came back to me after another 9 months since I stopped medication. The intensity was not the same, but I was more concerned with getting mad.
To make the story shorter and get to our book, I want to say that this book helped me understand everything much better. I like it so much, perhaps, for the fact that my story is similar, even if not so severe as in Adam's case. I identified my pure obsessions as OCD and I accepted my anxiety as normal.
I can't refer to my self as a cured person at this moment, but I am on the right track after listening to this book. I really felt like it was impossible for me to get over crises without medication. Somehow I refused to start taking pills again even though I got the prescription from the doctor and I was very wise to do so because everything became better after understanding, accepting and embracing OCD and anxiety.
In the end I want to say: don't give up no matter what. I wanted to say this because I still had and have bad days and, at first, made me very depressed and made me question my actions and my future again. Also my obsessions mutated after I embraced my main fears. In a while I started to have obsessions about almost everything based even on examples in this book. It was the meaning that I attached to these obsessions that troubled me. Be ready for all kind of OCD (if you have it) or anxiety manifestations. This book also is not a "magic pill". The process of changing your thoughts and behavior is long and sometimes difficult.
I hope we all will be better for good :)

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