Go to a gym, you will meet people, you pay to exercise and that is what you will do. Sticking point one, solved. Once you start feeling fitter you might want to look better, incentive to cut down to a sensible level. Actually do something, get started and you are half way there. Do other things that hold your attention, something that makes you interested. As I said, you can only think about one thing at a time, that will stop you from feeling anxious.
All easily said mate.
Believe me, I have suffered, I know what it feels like when a panic attack tricks you into feeling that you’re dying, I died thousands of times. I tried doctors and at the time I found them useless. I tried drink but it only made me worse. I realised that I had to do something myself. In 1970, I was travelling home on the train, stiff as a board, worn out with nervous tension, muscles tight as a bar. I had been to the library and found a book called Relief Without Drugs by an Australian doctor. He said pretty much what I have on here. He also talked about relaxing the body by going through each muscle group and tightening and then relaxing them. I tried that for the first time in that train, it worked a bit, it also diverted my mind and my anxiety. It took many years to be cured if you ever can be, what it really did was give ME control, for the first time I had taken control of my panic and anxiety and seen some improvement. I moved on and learned how important how you breathe was. I learned yogic breathing, that is breathing right into the belly, another important factor in beating anxiety.
It does though I can testify to that.
Take your ipad or whatever to bed. Shield the light from the screen, there are loads of hypnosis or relaxation vids for sleep relaxation. Use earphones and just relax and listen, just a way of taking control, once established the attacks will stop, yes I had them as well, I am not talking out of my ass.
Try this anytime, now, if your stressed - youtube, type in Best Sleep Hypnosis, by Alicia Fairclough. Let me know if it works, just listen and do as she says. Nowt to lose.
Alcohol, for me anyway was a way to put the brakes on my 120mph brain .....
CBT is very good for anxiety.
@Bad_mother what he says. The Honest Guys (youtube) are good - voice like silk.
Books help, but what I have suggested is there at the touch of a button and anyone will know instantly that it works. Knowledge is power though.
