Goals might include meeting friends, going to public places, doing voluntary work or doing a sport or social activity.

Many anxious people have an underlying fear of losing control, even for a moment (which explains why some people find it so difficult to accept the need for relaxation). Has this been true in the past? Id go mad, or something. Psychological support, either through self-help groups or from a professional therapist, can be helpful at this time to help you understand what is going on and also to learn new ways of coping without going back to the drugs. Visit supermarket at quiet time, with a helper and buy several items. And the system described has the advantage of clarity. If this is the case for you, we recommend that you look for professional help from a counsellor or psychotherapist. Why is that the worst thing, and why is it so bad? Learning to accept risk This exercise will help you to assess risk objectively. Put yourself in the picture behaving calmly and succeeding at the goal. A very few people go on to develop PTSD, where they continue to have strong reactions over a long period, usually feeling that they are re-living the trauma and unable to resume their normal lives. Sometimes people worry about how they are going to explain what they are feeling. Depression is not just a case of feeling low, or of needing to cheer yourself up. Take a break. Someone calls an ambulance, they are taken to Accident and Emergency, and after the usual tests they are told that its panic. Work your way through your list of thoughts and devise an answer to each one. Ask someone else to take over the fixture list. They can, and often do, happen while sleeping. People with OCD do often admit to their difficulties, because they need help with their OCD. my heart started to beat rapidly .