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| Panic Attack Guides |
| Hello, and welcome! First off, I have bipolar disorder - which means doctors want to give me drugs - and I also have Ehlers-danlos syndrome - which means the drugs don't work!
This website is about my journey through the world of dealing-with-this-stuff-without-the-drugs. As of July 2011, I've been on this journey for a few months only - I have three books I trust, and three websites I trust, and a goal of moving from a part-time job to a full-time career with no major meltdowns.
We'll see how that works out for me!
Turn up because you want to figure out how to manage your own problems without drugs - turn up because it's fun to watch the crazy lady dance with (metaphorical!) crocodiles. Either way, hope you find what you want to find. |
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This product follows the cognitive behavioural therapy path - which has been proven to work as well, or better than, mood-altering drugs.
I have the killer combination of bipolar disorder and ehlers-danlos syndrome - which results in a paradoxical response to mood-altering drugs. Like everyone in my family, I react to common, mild sedatives and anaesthetics by having severe psychotic breaks.
We have a wealth of stories about Grandma being slipped a little something to ease her pain, and biting the priest who was administering the last rites, sister being given a little something to relax the muscles in her jaw, and biting the dentist, daughter coming round from minor surgery looking a lot like Linda Blair in the exorcist - we're not horrible people! But we all react the same way to mild sedatives, muscle relaxants and anti-psychotics. Which for us should be called Auntie Psychotics!
Most people don't have that problem. But over the course of a lifetime, the drugs approach is EXPENSIVE! And side effects are rarely fun. Much better to educate yourself about yourself.
For the price of a few months' prescriptions, you can be truly free of your very own invisible cage - you know, that one you've been lugging round with you for, well, ever!
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Public Speaking without Panic |
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Most people can avoid heights, spiders and snakes without severely limiting their career. But the hard fact of the matter is - if you want to get ahead, you better be willing to stand up in front of a group of judgemental people, and speak your mind.
Most people, as the man says, are willing you to succeed - I think we'd all rather be entertained by a colleague than examine our collective shoes as they stutter their way to a full stop! But as someone who stayed in jobs I didn't really like rather than risk speaking in front of a panel of three people (yes, really, that bad!) the knowledge that half of your audience wil judge you for saying 'libary' rather than 'library', while the other half will think you pedantic for going all-out and pronouncing 'library' when the boss says 'libary' - while that guy over in the corner just figured out that you started out saying 'library' and have now switched to 'libary', and are therefore a big suck-up...
The horrible thing is that the more intelligent you are, the more thoughtful and sensitive and intuitive you are - the more likely you are to have at some point picked up a hostile vibe from someone, and then spun that into an all-encompassing belief-system that freezes you solid at the thought of talking about things you actually know about!
This will definitely help you to reach out to the multitude of people who are capable of hearing what you have to say, and judging you kindly and well, rather than harshly and unfairly. |
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The Linden Method |
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I'm a self-avowed sucker for a case study - I'll read books on law and accountancy if they promise me case studies! Charles Linden is a maven of the 'poacher turned gamekeeper' school - he started from the standpoint, 'physician heal thyself', which means he's not asking you to do anything he wouldn't do himself.
And he can tell a bunch of stories about people who've had it as bad as you - and maybe worse.
A 3% drop out rate (they didn't fail - there is no fail - but you can decide just to not do it...) is nothing to be sniffed at either. |
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This website is by Helen © copyright 2011. All rights reserved |
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