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Mar 27, 2019 at 01:00 PM
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How do you move forward from having severe anxiety.
Aside from medication. 
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Mar 27, 2019 at 03:41 PM
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 I do not know how the severity of my anxiety ranks, but I've only been able to "manage" it, not cure it. And its management greatly affects life. 
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Mar 29, 2019 at 08:01 AM
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Some things that work for some people- therapy, deep breathing, mindfulness, meditation.
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Mar 29, 2019 at 08:11 PM
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Someone in real life who admitted to having GAD told me they also felt that all anxiety was essentially a lack of trust in oneself. I don't know, but it sounds plausible. It certainly is true for me. I guess what I'm trying to say is that many of the techniques for coping with anxiety deal with the immediate symptoms and distress, but don't fix the underlying thought processes that can lead to it. I'm a real severe case with a lifelong issue that has resisted most "professional" treatment. But it has gotten more manageable in the last couple of years in that I am doing more and feel a bit better about myself. It was brutally hard, and still is. But there is hope that things can get better, even for people like us.
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