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BDDis not classified as an anxiety disorder. Examine your records from the exercise above and be honest with yourself about the amount of alcohol you consume - could you, for instance, go a whole week without an alcoholic drink? Do this for several breaths, rhythmically. Some forms of Anxiety, such as compulsive behaviours, are very time consuming, and other types of Anxiety can leave the sufferer feeling too exhausted to contemplate taking exercise. Has this been true in the past? Other type (such as situations that might lead to illness, choking, vomiting). Say I wont be able to give anyone a lift on Tuesday evenings, thats going to be my evening off. Excitement - you have a whole new life. What is your body to do? Eventually someone with agoraphobia needs to practise staying in situations, so they could move on to the shopping ladder in the panic example, or they could devise a new ladder that focuses on being with other people. At one time they were prescribed without a full understanding of the side effects of long-term usage. Ask someone else to take over the fixture list. I dont find it difficult to be assertive. I do find it difficult to be assertive, but Ive improved over the years. Counsellors have a saying if you do what youve always done, then youll get what youve always got. In other words, if you keep telling yourself negative things, then youll keep failing in the very ways that you dont want to fail. If you are worried about your Anxiety returning, thats understandable, but you now have new insight and new skills. When the panic attack subsides, the person naturally feels that leaving the situation is the answer - when you leave, the panic stops. I just felt relieved. Perhaps you are realising that things arent as bad as you thought, or perhaps youve had to face up to the full extent of your illness. If you think that panic will cause the skills to fly out of your head, write your chosen ones on a little card to carry with you. Try to build up a more balanced picture by recording your own achievements and asking those around you for honest feedback.