Posted by Chuck2112 on February 20, 2003, at 12:26:07
In reply to Re: 4 weeks and one day on lexapro » Chuck2112, posted by Dysfunk on February 20, 2003, at 11:19:09
> That is good advice....I guess if I wasn't a worrier, I wouldn't need anti-anxiety med to begin with! Therein lies the rub!...
dysfunk,
yeah, i know there is paradox there, but i think with practice, it gets easier. what i think tends to get in the way is our preconceptions that we have as to how life should be experienced, and we cause ourselves much anguish unconsciously holding ourselves to some standard that really has no basis in reality....
one technique that helps me on some days is to just take in my environment, if i am driving i just look around me and make small little comments to myself about what i see, and try to make associations, like if i am driving and i see a barn, what automatically does that make me think of, oh it makes me think of that barn on that road where i grew up and from there i might start to think about the people who lived there, and from there about something i used to do with my friends and so on and so forth...
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