Zen86
This is going to go against the grain of everything you have read. How bad do you want to drive again? Shop again? Take the kids to the park and be worry free?
You can do it with one little change. A change in thought. You use this thought slowly using it against something that doesn't bother you too much and work up to what really bothers you. If done right you will be amazed at the result.
So her goes. It is not the driving or the store or the great outdoors you fear. They are only the situations that trigger the thought that you fear. They only bring on the panic. What causes it is a thought. This is called a panic triangle and has three points. Change anyone and the other two fade.
THOUGHT
SITUATION PANIC
Do you see this. You go to the store (situation) and the thought (subconscious some times) that you don't want to be there brings on the anxiety, so you panic.
Change the thought and the other two fade. HOW? Simple tell yourself that "it is my decision to do this" "I am in control" See It is the lack of control that is the stimulus. Take the control back.
Look at the anger you had at the check out. That is not fear, that is lack of control of the situation. "it is my decision to be in this line up" gives you back the control. You are there because you want to be not because you have to be. NOT because you have to be.
You have the anger, use it. Use it against yourself. This works far better than any pill believe me, I used to need Ativan to shop. Now I just do it because I want to. "it is my decision"
Davit. Hope the triangle prints as I typed it.
