Need help and advice

Hi I've just recently started with really bad panicing. It started last week and now I've started to think about really starnge things that are making me panic even more. When I was younger I used to be interested in astronomy and for some reason these facts about space type things are constantly in my head and scaring me.
I find it so hard to stop thinking of them aswell, like how small we are compaired to everything else out there and the fact that we are walking around on a great big ball. Why am I thinking this stuff and do other people think about stuff like this when they suffer from anxiety. I keep trying to tell myself its not important and I don't need to answer it but my head just will not stop

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Rich

hey rich,,

i have had anxiety for a number of yers now and i have had all the symptoms you described,,
i know its hard but just try to ignore these thoughts they will not hurt you and i gauruntee they will go away space is very interesting my dad loves it all,,

i often think the other way to you walking around on a big ball lol never thought of it like that before ,,i think how insignificant my worries and anxietys are when i compare them to the VASTNESS of the universe,,

seriously rich you will learn to control your thoughts again your mind is just racing at the minute and the more you think about them the more intense they will become ,,,trust me from a serious anxiety sufferer ""DONT WORRY""

ok mate hope i have heelped a little,,

take care mate

darren :D

Hi! Panic is fear of fear. This means you are scared to be fearful. Because you are fearful, and you feel like you can't stop it, you are in fact scared of that fear, you panic and feel out of control. But this is a circle. Because this makes you fear the next panic and now you are focused on "Oh gosh, I hope I don't get that fear again, because if I think of this or that then I get fearful and I could panic... oh gosh I'm getting fearful! Oh this is not real, try, try harder, try again, oops I can't control it What is this thing it scares me!! --> panic"

Fear is a replacement emotion for the real feeling behind it. Instead of fearing that fear, why don't you say to yourself: OK I don't want this, I want the REAL emotion, what I actually created this fear for and face it head-on. You'll see it's not scary at all.

Your constant focusing on cosmic events and being impressed by the greatness where it gets to u, is nothing more but a habit. It's your thoughts, but YOU control your thoughts, nothing or noone else. Distraction is the key, because if thoughts make u scary, then thinking OTHER thoughts (or none at all) won't make u scary. Ultimately it's a choice of priority: do I find it so interesting to contemplate fear or do I want to do something that makes me feel good in life?

I'd also like to advise you The Linden Method, as I have found it very good.


Greetings, Peter.

I guess Im worked up that the stuff Im thinking is real but Im scared of it and it will always be there. Befroe this happend I had really strange experiences where I felt that I was really there kind of in a dream. I feel really disconnected for everyone aswell like Im all alone with these thoughts I can't understand why these things are bothering me I never used to be scared of them. Why am I thinking about up there its not like Im ever going to go there I just can't understand why Im obsessed with thinking this stuff. Im obsessed with trying to forget this stuff aswell which is making me think about it even more. Will I eventually just get bored with thinking about it and forget it?

No you won't get bored with it. You may decide however that spending x amoutn of time of your life on that is not what you find it worth and DECIDE otherwise.

It's a habit, and you have to break it, and you can.

Went out of the house today for the first time in a week didn't go to bad managed to put my mind to other things. Starting to feel alot more connected. Im taking Citalopram at the moment and have been for the last 2weeks I think they must be starting to kick in now, they made me feel even worse to start with.

I don't think medication is the answer.

I dont think it is the answer but if it helps to get me past this difficult point, then I can look closer at my lifestyle, diet and other things and try and keep a happy mind.

I seem to start feeling abit better then I'll go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning feel like Im back to square one again is this normal?
I would of expected that if I was feeling better I would feel more and more better every day but I just seem to be up and down although I think, well hope and go up more than I am down, kind of 2 steps forward one step back

Yes I have the same, feeling like things are going well and next day I need so long ot get started again, feeling fears and stuff.