Dear Rebecca1990:

I hope you don’t take antidepressants. I did for 17 years. Sometimes I thought I felt better, but my living circumstances got worse throughout those years; there was no healing taking place. It is only through my first competent psychotherapy that I started my healing. A few years following the therapy I finally got off all psychiatric drugs successfully.

You have a good point here: “I can’t rely on other people to take my anxiety away.” Really, it is impossible for others to do so. As you experienced, people can help temporarily but on the long run, healing is an inside-work.

My healing from my lifetime of severe anxiety happened and is still happening as I build confidence in myself that I did survive anxiety (it didn’t kill me no matter how badly it felt, how scary); that I can endure it and still choose healthy behaviors, that feelings change and will not stay the same-forever.

I believe you can heal too.

anita