Posted by Wolf Dreamer on October 20, 2003, at 6:56:14
In reply to Re: anxiety caused by bullying in youth. any cure? » Wolf Dreamer, posted by zeugma on October 19, 2003, at 16:32:23
All this change of diet, getting exercise, taking supplements... none of it is really going to work? That sucks. I guess it is for people with other causes.
There is a new treatment said to work for anyone with anxiety or phobia caused by something in their past. It is called Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
I'm trying to find a good webpage that explains it.
To try to make money off of this, many other steps were added in, and if you search the net you will find many horrible people trying to make money from you.
While thinking about whatever it is that bothers you, you distract yourself with external stimilation, either watching a flashlight move back and forth in front of you, or simple tapping your hands. Apparently it doesn't matter. Your brain can not make you feel anxiety/panic while being distracted by something like that. That is odd isn't it? Many people I talked to on an anxiety forum mentioned that they did all sorts of things to distract themselves whenever their mind was racing with unpleasant thoughts. Perhaps there is something to it. One person said they got better by putting a rubber band around their arm and smacking the daylights out of themselves whenever they had anxiety. After stopping the thoughts from happening for a reasonable number of days at all, they stop coming altogether.
I'm going to try this. Whenever I have the thoughts I don't want, I'll do something, anything at all to distract myself. If it works, I'll report back here.
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