Going Crazy?
~ By Jan Tincher

Do you feel like you're going crazy? Do you feel like you are all alone and no one can help you? Do you feel like if you don't do something you are going to go mad? . . .

You are not alone. Many people have self-talk that destroys their confidence in themselves as normal functioning people. Self-talk that says they are going crazy, self-talk that says they are alone and no one can help them, self-talk that says they are going to go mad if something doesn't happen soon.

Well, there are ways to stop the cycle. Once you learn the process, you will have jumped a huge hurdle.

Here are different ways to deflate that self-defeating self-talk.

1. Start talking like mad. Make stuff up as you go along if you have to. Describe how it felt to eat when you first had finger food. Talk about the little boy you knew in kindergarten. Detail the last walk you took and what you saw. Talk about your feelings for someone. The faster you talk, the less you can think about what is happening. Pretty soon you will run out of steam and a calmness will take over.

2. Read a book out loud, decibels higher than normal and twice as fast. After the first couple of pages, talk a little lower and slower. By the time you are on the third page you are feeling more relaxed.

3. Visualize everything you are thinking as separate thoughts. Quickly put them in their own individual rooms in your mind. When you have accomplished that, look at every room you filled -- slowly. Each room has a problem, but suddenly they don't seem so huge. When you compartmentalize something it decreases the pressure.

4. Tour the room you are in. Touch the walls. Describe what you were thinking when you first saw this room. Ground yourself in this room. Sometimes just the fact that you touched something gives you a different thing to think about.

All of the above is geared to work with the panic you are feeling. You'll work with it, then you work it. Finally, you will find that your mind isn't going a hundred miles an hour and that you handled what you were going through. Later, when you think about the episode, you will think more about the fact that you handled it then the fact that you had it.

Of course, these strategies also work with panic attacks.

Going crazy -- not the actual going crazy, just the every day things that really frustrate you -- is definitely something that can be handled.

Note: Use the *Shatter* strategy found here http://www.tameyourbrain.com/shatter.htm , and that will help you get rid of the pictures in your mind that affect you in a negative way.

Thanks for reading,

Jan

P.S. Here's what I've found to be the best methods for handling fear:
http://www.tameyourbrain.com/fearEcourse/fearoffer.php

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