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Today I share with you my journey to overcoming chronic anxiety. In this video I emphasize the importance of self awareness and pattern recognition. These two areas can often be enough to take someone from chronic anxiety to true and lasting anxiety healing. My anxiety recovery story underscores the significance of persistence, self-compassion, and a proactive attitude in achieving long-term mental health and well-being.
Comment below on your biggest 'More Than Anxiety Moment' from this video.
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The voice for anxiety sufferers, Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy) leads others out of an anxiety riddled lifestyle and towards inner peace. Having gone through debilitating health anxiety, panic attacks, generalized anxiety, agoraphobia for years Dennis has found a way through the darkness and back into the light. Now, he is sharing science backed and proven ways to heal anxiety for good.
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I belongs to very poor family and I can't afford medication,fees and all what can I do ..I am literally broken đ due to my anxiety disorder problems
1. Take uncouncious thoughts less seriously (1:34) (MEH!)
2. Stop hyperfixation on recovery (4:36) (dont overthink)
3. Keep it simple(7:20) (keep your healing journey simple)
4. Commit yourself in decision making (9:14) (build will power of decision making)
5. Stop trying mentally to navigate to end you anxiety journey(11:20) (feel different)
Thanks for saving time
Thanks!!
And keep adding glib cliches.
Thank u jerry
Timing is for practice if I may ask
I honestly believe working on my anxiety is making it a hundred times worse
Anxiety definitely makes us ridged and far too serious. Very good point.
I can confidently say that you are the Bruce Lee of anxiety healing!
Waaaaaa!
One of the best channels I know, very honest and practical hence super helpful. Thanks Denis.
Wow thank you
Super agree...he is a big part of my healing journey.
I am still finding it difficult to let go of the belief that I deserve a good life. The suffering is still a protective mechanism. It's so exhausting sometimes. Can't let go of those core beliefs- as false and destructive as they are.
Ask God for help. He thinks you deserve a great life đđŒđ«¶đŒ
@@maryellen33714 thank you †I just finished Dennis' book "F* Coping Start Healing " and I have been incorporating the lessons daily. Ready to order his other books, just to have, and keep at it. I believe reframing and meditating more, is needed.
Where have you been all my life? I was taken from work in an ambulance and I canât believe it but itâs anxiety. Panic attack. I thought I was sick and dying. Literally at work and I couldnât even stand up. I was 10000% positive I was having a heart attack. And itâs in my head?? I canât believe this
Already ended at the emergency cause I was 100% convinced I was dying, had all the weirdest symptoms. It feels weird when you get out, once you realise it was anxiety, it almost feels like it was a dream (or nightmare). Donât worry, weâll make it đȘđ»
That is completely the standard and normal order of things that happen during a panic attack
â@munch_muzak Dissociating is completely normal during or after an anxiety attack, it is how your brain takes a break from the constant stress of worrying.
I love how you are real about anxiety! Absolutely, we can recover from anxiety and move on! Stay away from over complicated channels or influencers that make anxiety out to be so complicated and especially make you feel like you are the victim! Iâm sick of being a wuss and anxiety will not run my life. Courage over fear!
I just had a bad panic attack about 45 minutes ago. I have a weak immune system and I got very sick at the end of last month. I caught bronchitis for the second time in less than a year, the flu and sinus infection all at once. Iâm still battling the bronchitis and coughing all the time and I think itâs taking a toll on me because I keep having anxiety, feeling like I canât breathe and that Iâm gonna die. Your videos help me so much Dennis.
Thatâs so scary when you feel like you canât breathe. Thatâs always when my anxiety gets worse is when I have a physical illness in addition to my fears. I hope you start feeling better! đ
Hope you get better soon đ
Based on your comment, if I understood correctly, it is not the bronchitis but the anxiety that keeps attracting these negative thoughts and maybe even psychical symptoms because of them. I had anxiety so great that I literally started to have muscle spasms and thus muscle loss (lost 10kg of muscle) as well as shortness of breath.
Thank God in Heaven, because He helped me by then giving me vitamin B12 (metilocobalamin variant as a sublingual, because it is absorbed more quickly). After the first time taking it, it immediately stopped the muscle spasms, shortness of breath and I was able to focus better on the positive outlooks and eventually recover. It soothes the nervous system and has other beneficial properties. I still battle with anxiety from time to time but it is nothing like what was before.
@@arcanecontent no itâs the fact that my immune system never fully developed because I had a traumatizing childhood and Iâm extremely susceptible to catching germs. It has nothing to do with manifesting negative thoughts I have anxiety because I have PTSD from various things in my life, including being in a relationship where I was hit and raped and mentally abused on a daily basis for two years.
No amount of positive thinking is going to change my very real physical lifelong health problems, thanks.
@@MumfordElectric I see. Thank you for the courage to convey what happened to you. I can only sympathize with you. :)
I was not advocating for positive thinking as a resolution for your problem - that was not my intention as I honestly didn't know what happened and that is why I used the term "if I understood correctly" specifically so not to overconfidently state with surety what is the reason for your state, as I couldn't know up until now.
Still, the vitamin I mentioned cannot hurt to be taken, as it can help with muscle relaxing, easing the strain on the nervous system etc.
All the best going forward. Take care. :)
I get confused sometimes (with so many thoughts in my head already) the fact that at one time one needs techniques to cope and get better from anxiety. Then at some point we need to let that tight control go. Maybe it's just at what point you are in dealing with the symptoms and your life. I'd feel better if I knew my thoughts will at some point just fade away and I'll be just fine.
I didn't have anxiety at the level I'm experiencing until after a series of events coincided over a period of about a year. Before that I had issues, not a perfect life, but not this debilitating. Oh well. I'm not the only person suffering but I don't want to continue to waste my hours away thinking unproductive thoughts.
I listen to your videos as I do get ideas I resonate with. I like to jump out of the thinking of my anxiety so much so that's an important thing to remember. Not to say just doing this will cure me but perhaps I can squeeze in some really productive moments that can propel me into doing things that I enjoy and want to do again. Don't like feeling frozen.
Committing myself to decision making and learning to FEEL different not think different resonated the most! it is amazing how much better our thoughts become when we do the things we know make us feel good.
Best anxiety channel the only one that actually gives me real resources and help
Thank you Dennis. Its such a roller coaster. I just start getting over one symptom and another comes along. This month its shortness of breath. And i focus on it when i know i shouldn't
Same bro. I keep feeling my lungs exploding out my chest. Hopefully, we recover from this, I miss playing football. I recently fell into this cycle by running with a lack of sleep with a heavy backpack, I felt something pull inside my heart and I've been hyperfixated on this. The fact that my heartbeat has never exceeded 110 bpm when running reassures me that my heart is still strong. Hopefully this is all in my head and should go away when I finish my A-Levels in 2 weeks. I will do everything to cleanse my mind, I will finally ask my crush out and I will gradually try to return to sports. Exercising should justify my heart racing experience and hopefully my heart should "rest" afterwards like it's supposed to. It's nice to know I'm not alone, this started with heart palpitations and dizziness for me. Godwillingly, these passed but I feel new symptoms every week XD. I wonder what's next! I want to eventually get an Echocardiogram but I will wait until all my stress factors have subsided at the start of July.
I also think about joining the Health anxiety University but am afraid of hearing people talk about their symptoms. This usually results in me taking on the symptom and then going into a domino affect of catastrophic thinking. I am working Dennis ' program,. I finished one book and planning to order the others. Some good days and some wins. Also relationship with my kids have improved.
I agree đŻ percent with you! I noticed a huge improvement when I stopped all these things. Sometimes I just had to sit with it. Surrender to it. That was a huge step.
The part when you spoke about indecision was the one that stood out for me. I've been noticing that process in me lately, so it was in the perfect timing that this video appeared.
Thank you for your work, you're deeply appreciated đ€
(one of the most assertive comments I've written so far ahah)
Glad the timing was right Maria much love
Dennis thanks !!! the fifth point resonated with my feeling ....great wisdom indeed
Blessings!
I just told my fiancee this morning, "I am having a day. I feel like when I say it's good or bad, I end up teetering toward the worse for no reason."
I have been so rigid about recovering. Take my meds, do my affirmations, etc etc. When, really, I just need to feel the Sun on my skin. I just need to feel the wind in my hair, the grass on my hands. The "recovery" exists in the same world as my anxiety. If I bury myself in it, I won't get better. Your video worded it for me.
Something I once heard. "The decisions we made to protect ourselves as children do not carry well as adults."
The decisions I had to make to stop a panic attack won't necessarily lead me to recovery. They helped me, but now I need to make NEW decisions about my comfort to fully heal, I think.
Hi Dennis âșïž You made some brilliant points here, but I resonated most with number five. While Iâm trying to âretrainâ my anxious brain I often forget my heart. My end goal is to FEEL like my old self again before the anxiety, maybe even an improved version. Thank you for all your content. You are doing precious work đ
Very welcome and thanks for your important feedback
This video was so, so good!! I love the part about the past. I have recently been suddenly thankful for my past, because without it I wouldnât be who I am today! Even though it brought anxiety - anxiety brought out a warrior I NEVER knew existed within! Iâm just very grateful for it all!!!
Much love
Dennis you have helped guide me to such a better place with my mental health, my spirituality, and my gratitude for life. I cannot ever thank you enough for what your knowledge and guidance has given back to me. I am still healing, but I am confident that I will overcome the challenges that my lower self is still trying to keep in my path. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Lovely to hear Courtney đđ
â@@TheAnxietyGuy1Dennis can you help me?
This video is super helpful! The part that spoke to me the most is keeping it simple and being militant with the simplicity. My anxiety goes up when I start getting pulled into other resources that are good but will only complicate things. I think that the more I do the faster I will heal but that zaps my willpower points. So many more than anxiety moments! Thank you bunches â€đ
So very welcome glad it helped
Thank you Dennis. Some really good golden nuggets here!
You are very welcome
This makes me think that I'm paying far too much attention to my unconscious thoughts on my relationships mostly with my husband, but with others too. I've been through my panic attacks in my 20s and I don't get them anymore, I do panic at times and I do have anxiety, just not to the point of a full blown panic attack where I think I'm dying or going insane. I found one of your meditation videos after a terrible argument with my husband a couple nights ago, and it calmed me down, letting go I believe it was. I'm pretty shocked at how well it calmed me down, I've meditated for years and nothing has calmed me down as much. Thank you so much, I'm going to keep up with these videos.
Lovely to hear the commitment
Iâm currently weaning off of ssriâs and Iâm going through it bad. I was only on 10 mg of Paxil but Iâm hardly holding on. Has anyone else ever been through this?
Paxil has a very short half life compared to some other ssri drugs so tapering off can be a bit harsh. It has to be done very slowly. Your doc can order you a liquid form that you can control a better consistency of smaller dosing so you donât bounce around as much or he can give you a longer half life ssri that may be a softer landing, he can also give you a benzo temporarily to reduce some anxiety. Just know that these withdrawal effects are normal for many and are temporary. Those brain zaps are just your body relearning to adjust serotonin on its own.
Maybe may anxiety can go away if I have money that is why I'm thinking off, bec of my anxiety I can't work outside. I need to pay bills.but how đđ I keep dizzy outside and my whole body suddenly on rush it's like I want to run
Thank you so much ! Super useful , will come back for sure! đ„°
Your program is perfect for me. Keeping me consistent and helping a lot of progress
Love hearing it. Make sure to use the email support through the program itâs the best out there ;)
Thanks Dennis âïž
Dennis, thanks for your video. I think I am overfocused on why I feel bad at the moment and always trying to find out whether the bad feeling changed. Did I understand correctly that setting an internal goal to just feel better might help?
So so good!! Completely agree with all of these â€
Lindsey! Fancy seeing you here.
Excellent advice đ
Glad you think so!
LOVED this video:) all of them spoke to me but in particular #1 and #3!
Glad to hear it đ
Thank you for this
My pleasure!
Keep it simple. Brilliant! This one tip made such an instant difference for me. THANK YOU! you are a lifesaver.
You're welcome!
Will power points explained please?
Extremely helpful video.
Thank you.
Great video. Thanks for the advice!
Glad it was helpful!
It all resonates! đ
Glad you think so!
7:52 - too many inputs. Keep it simple. You are so right Dennis. I was adding additional information to yours and it was too much. Your program is perfect and enough.
Thanks for sharing!
The part of the video that they spoke, the deepest to me, was not trying to micromanage are anxiety recovery. So maybe itâs OK to just say MEH! My anxiety makes my eyes pulsate and itâs very uncomfortable and Iâve been trying to get myself to feel better for the last two days and I realized Iâm trying too hard. I need to relax.. my anxiety was brought on by going out on a date and not hearing from him afterwards ultimately, I have major fears of rejection, heartbreak, vulnerability, etc. sound silly, but itâs a real thing. I over, analyze everything overthink everything, and also like to script things out in my head that didnât even happen and things that werenât even said. I ruminate and then before you know it Iâm circling the anxiety drain. This video is very helpful. I will follow you and watch more.
Thank you, please share with others in need as well. Much love.
I loved the videos that you put out. They are so helpful but I would like to see some directed at newly retired older people. I retired in May and I have snowballed from mild anxiety to every single day and a lot of it is mainly health anxiety. I would love to hear your, help with people dealing with issues like mine. Thank you for all you do and all the people you felt and God be with you.
So very welcome, please share with others in need.
Rightly said..
You are wonderful, I am working on myself, and I found out that I do have health issues. I am working on them now and wondering if it is causing/feeding the anxiety...
More âLessâ more freedom..it is not only you guiding us through your very helpful insights and solutions..it is also your transformative energy that gives me power to go this recovery path..Thank you Dennis with all my heart đ±
You are so welcome
thank you
You're welcome
"keep it simple" is the best thing to do for anxiety recovery. Thanks, Dennis
make a decision without questioning myself and stop being anxious about that decision
You can do it
Dennis thanks so much my is i b come almost anxious abt almost everything its affecting my sleep that makes me more anxious the nst day i need to challenge almost every thought that comes to mind what's the best thing to do in such situations
You are very welcome
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 thanks for the acknowledgement but you didn't ans me
I always enjoy watching and listening to your practical and sound advice. In my recovery my biggest hurdle is the unexpected bodily symptom that may come up when driving or engaged in doing something else. Unlike the Surrender sessions where I am safe and able to let things just happen, or as you have taught, watch them happen, I'm not confident in how to handle the unexpected in an immediate situation. This is something I would be grateful to learn. Good presentation.â€
@@holly4686I find myself in the same situation, at times. Driving never used to trigger me, but it has been lately. I know youâre not soliciting my advice. However, Iâve been trying to figure out the same. I remind myself how long I e been driving and how good a driver I am. Literally saying these things out loud to my inner child, whoâs supposedly conjuring the angst. I tell her I got this. Breathing through it helps, as well. Also knowing you can pull over whenever you want. It feels like it helps via confidence and taking back sense of control.
Itâs a nasty, depleting feeling to have when driving. Iâve been on terror rides.
@@archivalangel Thank you for your words, yes pulling over is always an option. I never know when it may creep up but through time and studying I am getting better at paying it no mind and to not "look" for it. We'll all get through it. Take good care. â„ïž
Iâm a little confused because youâre talking about unconscious ideas, but the definition of unconscious is that theyâre not conscious. If youâre aware of them, then they must be conscious. They might be springing from unconscious fears, but I donât understand what you mean by an unconscious thought. I always appreciate your videos, and I want to understand this. Thank you.
An idea that crosses our conscious awareness randomly, spontaneously, and without our conscious consent.
@@TheAnxietyGuy1 Ah! OK, got it! Thank you so much. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me understand this. đ
Did you ever take melatonin for sleep during anxiety period?
The video is slow. Did it 2X speed. Now thats i assume is anxiety
I think I am making good progress but itâs still there a bit and Iâm still scared
Bring the fear with you like a screaming child no matter where you go :)
@@TheAnxietyGuy1Iâll try I donât know if I can but Iâll try
i have all anxiety stuff . I have so confusion i every thing when i buy something or what i do . Which anxiety activity responsible related to this stuff ?
Can you help for a shaking tremoring head when Iâm anxious. I just need it to stop shaking itâs soo embarrassing almost 40years now đą
The Emoji Movie đ âmehâ
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Know whats been working for me? I guess I have been over stimulated for a very long time. I quiet the house and lights and chill for an hour
From philippines hereâ€
Welcome to the channel :)
So, to sum it all up. ACT therapy is the way forward?
I wouldnât put it in such black and white terms, what works for one will be different from another often times.
Can I send you email on what I've been going through. It'll be lengthy but if you're willing to read it and give me feed back if be really grateful. Thank you for what you're doing your video explaining how to surrender to your anxiety has helped me tremendously and I'm ready to start healing I'm super grateful that I found your videos thank you sir!
I have servere anixty all day because of sickness
Its because from beginning trauma , and the body being so lonley , have me/cfs
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I Like so true .
No anxiety felt way differently than I thought. Cause anxiety is so intense. So when anxiety was finally lifted off off me. I was like . Huh ? Wait. What? This is relaxed. Omg. My mind is so quiet. I'm not worried.
đźđź. Like that. So I needed to get used to tranquility. And that feeling is different for everybody. For me it was almost more like a.lack of feeling. Anxiety. I like what he is saying tho. Don't take subconscious thoughts so serious is such GREAT approach. I suppose it might not work for everybody, imo, for me tho, I have a very active imagination, and that can leak into the subconscious, what some call, his imagination was running away with him, meaning his brain was creating scenarios that weren't reality, the negative imagination can take over and trigger anxiety, like projecting and worrying over an work outfit. Is it nice? People will say this it look stupid behind my back.... people will say that I look dumb... meanwhile everyone thinks the outfit is nice and probably haven't thought of talked about it much since that. đ Lol. So me. I'm laughing at myself. I like what he is saying . This works. I needed meds at first.
Did you have insomnia? I have real bad insomnia
I had it really bad itâs actually the fear of falling asleep I started drinking one cup of decaffeinated green tea team before bed I can sleep 8 hours straight
I had slight insomnia, Meaning i tended to struggle to fall asleep a few times a week(rolling in bed for an hour or 2) but never had full blown insomnia. What did help me sleep and get back into a sleep routine was drinking either camomile or mint tea 30 minutes before going to bed because they relax you and make you sleepy. And i listened to sleep meditations which you just follow along and they really relax you and make you fall asleep.
I had really really bad insomnia that whole night I can't sleep waiting for sleep
So don't worry about sleeping just not force it it will eventually come and when it comes believe me it is great feeling that you had so my point is deattache yourself from thought
A few weeks ago, I discovered this sleep hack and it works!
1. Get into bed and close your eyes.
2. Think of a theme (e.g. fruit, vegetables, car colours, plants).
3. Silently work your way through the alphabet thinking of a fruit for each letter (e.g. A apple, B banana, C cranberries, D dates, F figs...).
I've been using this for a week and I rarely get past d.
KISS ie Keep It Stupidly Simple. It helps
Cca the second is the same as the fifth...thanks anyway
One is about the fixation over our moment to moment actions while the others is mentally trying to connect the dots in relation to where anxiety comes from. Thank you for your comment.
I think I get it I need to stop trying to be in fix mode and also the movie your taking about is the emoji movie and it really bad and the lesson of the movie is that guys can have multiple emotions
The attitude of gratitude. Start keeping it simple. Use the KISS method. Keep my mind busy with tasks. And be decisive in every decision from now on. Thank You so much for your help. tomorrow begins a new day to shut this nonsense down.
Love that!
Well. It seems that we are all clones of this guy. With the same brain and body. Because if it worked for him, it must work for everyone. Right?
I feel worried and sad sometimes because i know that i need to be patient with recovery but iâm taking SSRI too and still have DP/DR ofc they helped me but iâm sick of feeling this unreality . Iâm struggling for 1 year with anxiety , i have overcome terrors , panic attack , somatic symtoms and now i just sometimr feel anxious and experiencing dp/dr , emotional numbness đ©. Any advice from you pls?! Thank youâșïž
If the thoughts are unconscious, then you are not aware of them. You are not conscious of them.
I wrote an email to you about which program to sign up for I have yet to get a reply but I understand youâre quite busy!
Which program is best suited for Health anxiety + panic?
Thank you and thank you for your vulnerability and kindness :)
Iâd say the inner circle program đ
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take uncinscious thoughts less seriously
How true it is