Has anyone here actually stopped fighting their anxiety -did it help?
i dealt with anxiety and panic attacks for years and did the whole routine, meditation, breathing stuff, journaling, tried therapy , the apps. it'd help for a week while and then come back, usually first wave worss. at some point i kind of accepted that my brain was just wired wrong and that was that. scrolling Amazon recently i stumbled on what actually shifted things for me was "Stop Fixing Yourself" by Timoteo Crnković. the title annoyed me at first tbh, sounded like more self-help nonsense, but it's the opposite of that. the whole idea is that the constant trying to fix it is part of what keeps anxiety alive:, like you're feeding the thing by fighting it so hard. reading it kind of dismantled the way i'd been approaching my own head for years. i did end up doing one online session with him too (he does conversational hypnotherapy), and that helped me get some closure, we didn't do techniques or coping mechanisms it was like talk session, more just got at why my brain was on guard in the first place. but honestly the book alone gave me already good enough of the shift. . After all the books i went through over the years, Stop Fixing Yourself, genuinely worth a read ,it's a short one. it sat with me way longer than any of the breathing apps ever did. just putting it out there in case someone's stuck in the same place with no new perspective.