thanx and ? for ROSE

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement.

My anxiety stems from something. Since I am not God and am not all knowing...I just pretty much make guesses. I know that i get nervous and anxious very easily. Driving in the rain...asking a question in midst of a big classroom...my heart races...hands shake...stomach shakes...

I guess in todays society...we just all want a quick fix and look for some kind of pill to give it to us.

How did you overcome this...THis question is for ROSE.

If you don't mind sharing.

Nikki

 

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Michael Riversong

herbal remedies

Monday, August 13, 2001 9:45 AM

RE: [herbal remedies] newbie intro

 

There probably isn't any such thing as "anxiety disorder" -- there's just anxiety. One very revealing thing for me, was to look up the words Anxiety and Worry in the dictionary, and pay particular attention to their origins.

 

One of my greatest objections to psychology and psychiatry based counseling is this fundamental assumption that childhood traumas are more or less permanent, and that one has to chew over them endlessly in order to handle them. This has been proven, both through research and experience, to be largely ineffective. Some of that research was done all the way back in the 1950's and for obvious reasons has been ignored. It was found in one study (sorry, no reference available) that simply talking things over with a friend does as much good, if not more, than hiring a "professional friend". A steady 22% of patients will tend to improve even if nothing at all is done. That said, I have noticed that one particular therapy, done with no evaluation whatsoever for the patient, has been effective -- but finding competent practitioners of that therapy can be very difficult. Because of severe controversies surrounding that therapy, I only mentio! n it specifically in private posts