From mtinsc01!newsadm@uunet.uu.net Tue Jul 2 15:02:47 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id PAA05188; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:02:46 -0400 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25777; Tue, 2 Jul 96 14:52:29 EDT Received: from mailhost.worldnet.att.net by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.129.3]) id QQawqt25133; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:54:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mailhost.worldnet.att.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA03009; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:54:11 GMT Received: from mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net(135.173.34.132) by mailhost.worldnet.att.net with SMTP id A2937; Tue Jul 2 18:53:49 1996 Received: by mtinsc01. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA08542; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:53:42 GMT To: alt-answers@uunet.uu.net Path: newsadm From: Alice Ford Newsgroups: alt.answers Subject: alt.recovery.panic-anxiety.self-help FAQ (part 2) Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 13:53:38 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 385 Message-Id: <31D97032.3A19@worldnet.att.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: 198.middletown-60.va.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) MENTAL: Worry (see above), counting rituals, excessive prayers TREATMENT: Write it out, distract yourself, refuse to count or pray, chart your anxiety until it's gone. MIX: Thinking you've run over someone and having to check. Same as physical. Cause yourself not to do it. After awhile, the anxiety will die down. Time is your friend. Write out horrible situation "Yes I ran someone over" exaggerate it, end in catastrophe (death row for you). Write this out more and more, exaggerate more and more until it's funny. This exposure will lower the anxiety response over time. * D.17 Scary Thoughts and Impulsives ------------------------------------- These are thoughts like you'll loose control and start stabbing your loved ones, your kids, yourself. Impulse to hit, kill, jump out of a window, drive into oncoming traffic. Such impulses are never acted on. Violent or suicidal people are not anxious about their actions, just the opposite. They may be anxious about not getting caught, but not about doing the action. [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]