Any one Struggling with anxiety and panic attacks?

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Roughsoul

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Okay as I promised BethanyNichole here are the books that changed my life with my struggle with anxiety.

I was given this book by my old psychologist. Title: The voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz. This books author is from the Toltec tribe which are from Mexico and I promise you though if you read and look past any of his spiritual beliefs you don't believe in then it WILL change the way you see anxiety forever.

The second book is straight up to the point about anxiety and panic attacks. Title: Anxiety & Panic Attacks Their cause and Cure by Robert Handly . This book will help you understand what's really going on when your experiencing these feelings.

Hope you find these books as helpful as they where to me. If you need help understanding anything in the books I can try to help I think I have read them both at least twice.
 
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BethanyNichole

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Roughsoul said:
Okay as I promised BethanyNichole here are the books that changed my life with my struggle with anxiety.

I was given this book by my old psychologist. Title: The voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz. This books author is from the Toltec tribe which are from Mexico and I promise you though if you read and look past any of his spiritual beliefs you don't believe in then it WILL change the way you see anxiety forever.

The second book is straight up to the point about anxiety and panic attacks. Title: Anxiety & Panic Attacks Their cause and Cure by Robert Handly . This book will help you understand what's really going on when your experiencing these feelings.

Hope you find these books as helpful as they where to me. If you need help understanding anything in the books I can try to help I think I have read them both at least twice.
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Thank you ! :)
 
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Roughsoul

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No problem hope these books help you they sure helped me. If you need help understanding anything in the books I will try to help out. Have a blessed day :)
 
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In my experience, anxiety and panic attacks were a spirit of fear. When I learned peace was my inheritance, I realized it wasn't from God and it wasn't from me. I stood on this truth and the fear left.

The Kingdom of God is peace, joy, and righteousness. 1/3 of the Kingdom is in a place of peace. Jesus is the prince of peace. And perfect love casts out fear. Fear is rooted in thinking that we have to protect ourselves because God isn't. This is a lie from the Spirit of fear, next time you feel fear, stop and remember and receive His love. His love damages fear.

Then receive His peace. He is the prince of peace. It's a put-off / put-on pattern. Put off fear, worry, anxiety... put on love, peace, and joy.

Eph 4:[SUP]22 [/SUP]to put off your old self,[SUP][a][/SUP] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, [SUP]23 [/SUP]and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, [SUP]24 [/SUP]and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

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Roughsoul

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Hey Cee,

Your right fear cant be in the same space as truth. But just as people who struggle with PTSD and all types of phobias. Sometimes we are scarred by our childhood or a very awful event that implants its self in our subconscious. Once its there its hard to find and figure out why anxiety is there and why panic attacks happen. We pray and pray for help and from my experience he helped me by showing me I didn't understand what was happening and to find some one who could explain it. He was testing me and didn't want to make it easy for me so that may be one day I could help people that struggle with it.

Praying is a great way to find guidance and peace but as we a lot of times forget we ask but never listen. As someone with anxiety we know the truth but still get the awful side affects of anxiety and panic attacks just like I said I knew getting a tooth filled was harmless and easy but my anxiety still made me run and feel worried. When I knew the truth but yet my subconscious was still sending me signals of fear no matter how much I said it be okay I have done this before. God works in crazy ways and its different from person to person. But the mind is a mystery and God created it so every one is different.
 
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Yellow_cotton_candy

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Yes myself has had many panic attacks my heart starts to race my palms sweat I feel like I'm going to vomit and almost feel like I'm going to scream and lose control now when I start to feel one start to come on I start running or go outside and look at mother nature or at night look at the starry night sky your not alone hunnie let me know if you wanna ever talk about anything it seems to help knowing you can talk to someone that can relate to yourself :)
 
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Roughsoul

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Yellow_cotten_candy,

Thank you I know its rough and that's where I feel most comfortable at is nature. It always helps to relate to someone helps me not feel like its just me and my crazy mind.
 
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Laura1084

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Roughsoul:

I've been a Christian for over 13 years and have been dealing with anxiety for about 8 years. I was in a terrible cycle trying to deal with anxiety, worry, panic and fear within the church-- a church that wasn't equipped to deal with these things. They just prayed for me, laid hands on me… I would use Scripture like a mantra… I begged God to "set me free" and always felt He let me down. All of this leads to a DEAD END! Trust me. I've now been given amazing tools to deal with anxiety by someone who's come from being strapped down in a mental hospital and given about 10 shock treatments. She's a Christian woman and has the most amazing testimony of how she's overcome anxiety, panic and depression. I signed up for her course at Calvary Chapel in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; it was called "Unmasking Anxiety" and her name is Honor Weber. It was an 8-week course and changed my life! She's unfortunately just relocated BUT you can contact the church bookstore to purchase the course. I do NOT work for them and am only writing this to help others get help like I did-- because material like this is VERY hard to find! I went YEARS thinking God failed me, reciting Biblical verses, fasting, praying, feeling "crazy" and losing my mind… felt that no one understood me. Everyone told me to "trust God" or told me to see a Psychiatrist. I even saw a "Christian Psychiatrist" who only suggested I sit in a chair and stare at some lights moving side to side. This made me feel even more hopeless and didn't make sense to me and I never did it. Honor primarily teaches how our mental health is a direct result of the thoughts we have trained our brains to think. She goes in depth about how the brain works… about how thoughts scientifically enter into our brains and pass from one neuron to another and how they then excrete chemicals and adrenaline which then produces our anxious feelings and panic attacks. She shares Biblical verses about God's design for our minds and thought life. She makes it very clear how we "train our brains" to thinking anxiously, depressed, etc and how it forms "patterns" which need to be interrupted and broken. Anxiety is NOT a mental illness, it's not a sickness… it's a disorder that we ourselves CAUSE. Our brains have something like "muscle memory" and are trained to react to those "trigger" situations the same way each time. She teaches how to slow our minds down, to breathe correctly in order to calm all nerves and panic attacks, how to excrete chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, which are neurotransmitters that are responsible for our moods. When I heard these things, it made PERFECT sense to me! We are responsible for our thought patterns and she helps you identify them. What's easier is that she's a very Type-A person with a hilarious personality. She makes you actually laugh at yourself.. PLEASE trust me and buy her course! I took her course but then purchased the MP3 CD and uploaded it all to my iPhone so I can listen anywhere at any time. God bless.
 
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ABMF

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Roughsoul said:
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and
the mountains fall into the heart of the sea"
Psalm 46:1-2 (NASB)

I for one struggle with this everyday. I found my self one day getting so anxious about something, once the event finally came up I would be so nervous and afraid my body would trigger what's called the fight or flight instincts. Obviously I couldn't fight or flee like I was crazy. So these chemicals that are released to the brain had no where to go. Triggering panic attack and I had no idea what was going on until my mind shut down on me. Woke up pale white face bleeding from hitting a table and sick to my stomach. God led me to a psychologist and I got better but still the anxiety tries to rule over my mind. They say it all lies within the subconscious and that's where the anxiety begins.


If any one has advise or even their own story please post it. I would love to see how other people handle fear of the unknown- def. of anxiety.
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Fear is the name of a demon. Fear of the unknown is actually a special work of the demon of fear. Anixiety is sin. God offers the believer freedom. Fear and anixety may come, its what you do with it that decides on if it is sin in your life. If it has place in you as a regular practice norm of life then you need to obey Gods word on overcoming and getting the victory over it instead of being a victim. Jesus Christ came to set the captives free. He offers His children the bread of deliverence from these problems if they will believe. You can be free if you will believe.
 
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greg789

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I've been trying to either read the kj or listen to music when the thoughts and pain try to re enter, I just want to rip out my heart and punch it like a punching bag............sorry if I'm disturbing in any way, Forgive me........
 
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greg789 said:
I've been trying to either read the kj or listen to music when the thoughts and pain try to re enter, I just want to rip out my heart and punch it like a punching bag............sorry if I'm disturbing in any way, Forgive me........
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You need deliverance. That is the casting out of demon Spirits. Go read Galatians 5. If you don't have the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of new tongues you need it. If you have never been baptized in water by immersion in Jesus name you need it. If you have never been born again you need it.
 
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