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Originally posted by gigi
Mark,
That is sooo awesome about your mom! I love to hear stories like that. I know how hard it is, and for her to break through like that is very inspiring. You are right....it is very much about negative thoughts...but, I still think there is more to it. I can be sitting there thinking about a beautiful flower I saw and WHAM!...here we go. Maybe it's an accumulation of negative thoughts bursting through during a calm time...I dunno....but they certainly can come at the oddest of times.
And for those who were asking what it's like....the best analogy I've read is standing in the middle of the road and then realizing there is a bus heading straight for you. A huge rush of adrenalin that gets you heart pumping....but for no reason at all. Not fun.
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Good description.
From what I understand it's the accumulation of alot of "what if" type thinking and it doesn't often hit while you're having the thoughts but when you are finally unwinding. It's like putting worries in the psychic bank and all the sudden they all manifest in symptoms at no logical time. So you have to switch your thinking patterns from bad what ifs to good what ifs, etc... the majority of your thoughts being focused on the "positive" will fill the bank upwith different material and eventually the attacks just go away. That's an over-simplification but it's the basic gist of what my mom did and then taught all these other people to do.