anyone read linda bassetts book panic to power? i have to say when i read it i feel better. ive been having panic attacks and feeling anxious every waking hour. mornings are hardest ive been starting out with an anxiety attack. ive seen loads of dr's they all say im young and healthy. but im convinced im dying. today i seen a new therapist and she said maybe the old you is dying. i lost my job 7/6 and she stumped me.maybe shes on to something. did i also mention i have depression. anyone out there who knows what im going through.

I can't speak for everyone here but, I know exactly what you are feeling in the mornings. I have to get through at least 3 or 4 hours until I feel "normal" even at work. I haven't read that book but have recently received the program and have just started. I don't believe that most therapists understand every aspect of this condition. My Mother being a family counselor does not understand my situation.
Being new to this program I'm am definitely not the one to give advice but I completely understand what you are feeling and want you to know that you are far from the only one feeling this way! Also from everything I have read and heard, most people dealing with this are very healthy and very intelligent and it is all in our minds.
Maybe in the mornings our body and brain is more tired and not up to dealing with things as well as when we are more awake , I don't know for sure.
Just trying to help!
Michael

Panic to Power is a good book it helps you to see, wear you are and wear you could be. with this course, I have been through the corse, and you are right the old you needs to die, you don't want to be like that any more that is what got you wear you are. You need to dig out the REAL you. and be proud to be the only one like you, to celebrate, the uniqueness of YOU!
and then share that you with the world. I feel the World kind of tends to twist the real us in to a form suposedly more acceptable to it. but we loose when we allow that to happen.

Work on your self talk, make it positive, that is the one thing that just keeps getting better and better, as you make your talk, and you walk postive, and push out the negative, you will begin to feel so free, to just BE.

I DEFINITELY CAN RELATE TO LOSING THE JOB AND BEING THROWN INTO ANXIETY. I LOST MY JOB ON 6/15 AND SHORTLY AFTER I STARTED HAVING SEVERE ANXIETY AND DEREALIZATION........SCARES ME TO DEATH. MORNINGS ARE BAD BECAUSE I FEEL REALLY SPACED OUT AND IT LAST FOR A COUPLE HOURS UNTIL I FEEL LIKE MYSELF.

Im feeling exactly the same way. I find it hard to get out of bed. Im scared and panicy and feel very nervous inside. Its very depressing. Thought I was the only one feeling this way. I sometimes think Im having a nervous breakdown. Im glad someone out there has felt like this. Will I ever be myself again?

NO! thank God you won't be like you were, like you were got you to wear you are. You will be the real you, the one you were ment to be, before the world twisted you in it's emiage. You will be free, and able to love yourself and others, you will have compassion for you, and others, like you have never known. Life will be fun, and powerfull, a Positive life is a life well lived. I realy can't put it in to words, how transforming positive thinking is.

My son is now 34 and loveing his life, and his wife, and enjoying every day, by decission, to be postive in every cercomstance, he has transformed, his life, new things don'g throw him anymore, changes in the sechedule no longers ruffles him, He is determined to think positive, and live positve, and I am so proud of him, for his efforts, all the years of school, that he endured, he is so glad that is all over, and past, and he is a new man. and he did it alot easier than I have, because he was so much younger, and more easily turned from the wrong path.

You don't want to be yourself again, you want to be the positive life loveing, person you started out to be at bearth. Look forward to the Best Life Ever.

thank you a lot everyone. im in california. its 9 in the morn and my nerves are just starting to calm down. Been up since 5am. i went for a walk and did positive self talk. i am working on breathing. i am trying to stay positive. i know i will be anxious off/on all day. but, the morning is over. tiphanie, do you think a lot of it i cause we have not place to go in the a.m. like when we were working