"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it" Ambrose Redmoon A distraught gentleman was suffering from a combination of anxiety and depersonalization.
He felt it began after a busy time at work.
He loved what he did and often worked late into the night.
He actually enjoyed these projects until a friend innocently remarked that he might be overdoing it.
This mere thought began a cycle of worrying, brought on by that one fearful thought.
He began watching himself closely and fearfully hoping he wasn't "overdoing it.
" This is when he became plagued with anxiety, followed by what he called a "strange and scary" feeling of unreality.
He couldn't imagine what was creating these uncomfortable sensations and spent every waking moment worrying about it.
He blamed himself for taking on too much work, but other thoughts also began racing through his mind, adding additional stress and fear.
He remembered the time he experimented with marijuana back in college, and the short time he took a medication for anxiety that made him feel awful.
He couldn't stop blaming myself and came to believe something must be wrong because these feelings were not leaving.
In many ways they were actually escalating.
If only he took a step back and looked at this sequence of events from a different perspective.
Everything he described was actually normal in the circumstance.
This might be difficult to believe, but nonetheless true.
Every symptom connected with anxiety and/or depersonalization has a logical explanation and can be reversed.
This was no different.
Nothing he described was unusual or out of the ordinary.
It doesn't matter how long one works, thinks or throws oneself into a project, lasting until the wee small hours of the morning.
The mind will tire to a small degree but not in the same way it does when fear enters the picture.
This is a different kind of fatigue.
A mind that is fatigued due to the constant stream of fearful thought is far more exhausted.
Fear being the culprit, exhausts far more than one can imagine.
It's the fear that tires.
It's the fear that drains both mind and body.
When the element of fear is eliminated from the thought process, the mind quickly refreshes.
Fear quickly becomes habit.
It may easily occur when one does not understand what is happening and the brain tries to find closure, grasping at any explanation available.
Self-blame enters the picture, even when there is no basis for this stream of thinking.
Once one learns to catch the habit of fearful thinking and interrupts it effectively, they are home free.
It's learning to retrain the brain or tame an overactive mind.
The individual learns to effectively talk back to the brain.
By doing so, the mind will rapidly rejuvenate and refresh.
It's not about needing more sleep or cutting back on work.
The mind is not fatigued from lack of sleep but rather from fearful thinking from the time one opens their eyes in the morning until they go to sleep at night.
This is the habit that must be corrected in the proper manner.
One has the power to do this without the aid of medication or any other chemical support system.
They can easily stop going around in circles trying to solve the unsolvable problem when the answer is within their own grasp.
The combination of learning to think correctly, along with the proper food plan (to naturally boost serotonin in the brain and maintain balanced blood sugar levels) will resolve this issue in an accelerated fashion.
It's not difficult to will succeed in creating a less reactive mind and body when an individual begins to handle stress effectively rather than overreacting to it.
There is no longer the issue of falling victim to life's stresses.
The only thing required is one's full cooperation to use the techniques and the patience to realize they are not ill.
Taking a sabbatical from work is not necessary.
Becoming bedridden is out of the question.
Following a simple yet effective way of thinking and eating will remove the foggy sensation and restore full clarity.
The intensity and frustration that is part of this cycle of anxiety and depersonalization is understood.
It is also understood that the proper approach will enable one to rapidly recover and the correct recovery will save them from future events concerning both interfering anxiety and depersonalization.