Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder can often be totally successful, but only if you stick to some basic, sensible guidelines. The first of these fundamental guidelines that should always be followed is to “surround yourself with recovery.” The idea of “surrounding yourself with recovery” is probably pretty new for you, but in a moment you’ll fully understand this idea, and more importantly, you’ll understand how to stick to this fundamental guideline and cause your recovery to go into overdrive.
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.
Doing this stuff makes your mind get stuck in an anxiety trap that it’s hard to break free from. You begin feeling and experiencing the weight of other people’s anxiety problems, and this can be terrible; it’s hard enough just dealing with your own problems. When this occurs, this is a classic case of surrounding yourself with complete negativity. You don’t want to be in a position like this, because it can single-handedly prevent all the progress you’d otherwise be making.
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. Esentially, 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 going to 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 end these basic things, the problem of surrounding yourself with negativity will quickly become history. But once you’ve achieved that, how do you go about surrounding yourself with recovery? Easy: you just do the opposite of what you’ve been doing up until now.
Here’s how to do that: don’t hang around with people with anxiety, hang out with people who had anxiety in the past but got over it. Don’t hang out on forums with people who have anxiety, hang out on forums with people who had anxiety in the past and got over it. Don’t read books about people who have anxiety, read books about people who had anxiety in the past but got over it.
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.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our energy thinking about and focusing on. So when you begin spending your time on recovery instead of the negative things, you can’t help but start moving directly towards your goal of an anxiety free life.
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