Fear Support Group

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I'd like to find ways to help each other on how to cope with FEAR.

 

Fear is my worst symptom and I think I could handle everything else: the DP, DR, physical pain. All that is very difficult. Sometimes the depression has got very bad as well. However, in my case, fear is really an issue. I am holding and waiting for the symptoms to subside, in hopes of resuming a somewhat more manageable taper, but the fear is with me everyday.

 

I'd love to share tricks, techniques, mindsets, thoughts that help us all manage fear and continue with our lives.

 

 

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Glad to see I' m not the only one with awful fear. I second your call for help, tips, etcetera. Mine isn't a constant fear, although it's always lurking in the background. It comes in waves. I am on Diazepam,  tried medication to stop the fear and anxiety 3 times this year, but absolutely cannot tolerate it!  So will have to do without. Going to see a new psychiatrist next week. Hoping to go into every day treatment. Already fearful of that! The idea of going there and be in a group has me on the highest alert! 

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Good morning! It is hard for me to separate fear and anxiety but I guess the fear is more of the overwhelming worry thoughts. I have found that reading positive things, for me aligned to my faith, is the most important thing and can change my focus totally. After all, fear is a thought process. Also, I have read that our bodies best respond to our own voice. I have recorded positive affirmations and listen to that as often as possible during the day. It isn't an instant fix, although I can have a release wash over me at times. But the more I do it the better it gets.

 

Blessings! Bev

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Hi Success and Trochsetter,

 

I'm sorry, I've been very busy and with too many life stresssors for a person in withdrawal.

 

I agree that our erroneous thought process makes wd f fear a hundred times worse. I'm also working on positive thinking, replacing every negative thought with a positive one. My chronically negative thinking stems from childhood, so reprogramming my mind takes work and perseverance. My brain has been programmed to always expect the worst. Now I'm trying to reprogram it by catching every negative thought and replacing it with a positive one. To be honest I just started it yesterday after a conversation with my physiotherapist. I was going crazy with anxiety and fear. I'm committed to keep working at this.

 

Last night I went to sleep with this music by power thoughts. Supposedly, these are different notes that can also reprogram our mind. Here's the link in case you want to try.

 

I hope we can support each other here. Living in constant fear is living in hell. I updosed after a bad crash and I'm planning to cut again when I stabilize, but I need more coping skills for fear before I start cutting again.

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Still in fear. Every symptom that comes up and lasts for a while makes me fear something really bad is wrong. Health anxiety at it's best...My GI issues worry me a lot, as do my stiff and powerless leg muscles and periods of extreme fatigue. Colon cancer, Lyme 's disease?  It almost drives me nuts sometimes. Breathing,  meditation,  going for a short walk, nothing really seems to work. The fear returns quickly and is always present in the background. Fibromyalgia and benzos are a terrible combination. Ahhh.

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I would like to join this group.  I reached 2 mg of Valium and ended up in tolerance withdrawa. I did not realize it until two months in because prior to that my taper had gone. Fairly well. It wasn’t until Sunday night that I almost had a seizure that I realize that my health issues were from the taper. I mediately took 1 mg Valium and the symptoms diminished I’m on day three of up dosing I tried to only up goes to .5 it did not work. I am in such a constant state of fear and misery that I need support so bad .I need help in controlling my thoughts they are so dark. Being flat on your back for two months has done a number on my head and I cannot get out of this depression. Will be up those work. I have had crushing fatigue in which I can no longer work will that go away as I Aptos how long will that take will not be disabled from this. These are all the things that go through my mind.

And then there’s beating myself up because I was so stupid as not to realize that the symptoms I was having was from the taper I did not know the crushing fatigue had anything to do with withdrawal. That is pretty dumb so I suffered all that time

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Hi Magnolias;

Dont beat yourself up. It is not your fault. I wouldny have known either. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is wd. I am so sorry you almost had a seizure. If it were me I would hold. I have the fear and health anxiety too. There are so many sx who wouldn't. Its reficulous. You will heal. Sometimes when the sx get bad i have to distract. Ask for help. Trying to work on my thinking to. Turn8ng negatives into positives like vnm. We could say something like, This is temporary anf others have come off benzos and they have healed and I will too. You should read some success stories. If you can take walks.  That has helped me so much. This too shall pass.

 

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You are an angel.  I think you suggested taping our own voice. I did do that. Problem was it was a crying affirmation!!! If the fatigue was not so severe, I could work thru this better. I’ve never been like this. My world stopped 2 months ago and I just discovered why. Now how long til I stabilize???thank you for your kind words

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O boy, what a terrible lot of suffering there is and all because of those bloody pills! Hold on everyone!