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#2
27th July 2012, 09:46
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Re: Fully Overcoming SA
I never have but I know how to keep it under control. Years of practice. I'm practically Jurassic.
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#3
27th July 2012, 14:03
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Re: Fully Overcoming SA
Although i haven't overcame it i think we can learn manage SA better and reduce our SA levels. I think SA is a natural emotion it's just that we feel the emotion more than others which makes it harder for us to cope with.
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#4
27th July 2012, 16:45
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I think it will always be with me, it's in my nature. In a sense I'm happy with the way I am, or rather who I am, that thing deep down that is 'me'. The problems that hold me back or restrict me and stop me enjoying the things I want, or where I want to be can be combated and challenged over time, and I can improve and deal with the difficulties. I'm begining to realise that now, whereas before it just seemed hopeless.
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#5
28th July 2012, 14:10
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It could end today if I took peoples advice not to panic or try control myself and limit my life out of the fear that Something Bad Will Happen but because it's a subjective experience within our minds only we can change it.
I have known or know of lots of people who have completely transformed their lives from being worse than me so I think if you adopt small, gradual changes and transform your life and outlook so that it's completely unrecognisable from the one it is today then it can be beaten.
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#6
29th July 2012, 19:38
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I don't think it could be possible to completely overcome it. I thought I'd got over the most of it a couple of months back, but its come back in full swing lately.
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#9
29th July 2012, 21:56
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I am extremely close, so I would say it is possible. When I first joined this site in early 2009 I was a completely different person. I am still quiet with an occasional bout of shyness, but my anxiety is virtually gone. I can go almost anywhere without worrying a single bit.
I took the motto "Just get on with it" and turned it into reality. It works. I admit that I still get phone anxiety but it's much better than it was before.
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#10
29th July 2012, 21:58
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I think you can get over it. It's just bloody difficult!
I'd say I've got over it, but I still have some related issues. Or maybe I'm just kidding myself 
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#11
29th July 2012, 22:06
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not sure about getting over it as i would say it's just part of my character i'm an introvert and i'm not that fussed on being around people can i function in every day life yeah i think so definitely a lot better than when i was say 16 so i would say i've over come it enough to achieve the things i wanted to. don't really get anxious any more but some of that may be down to avoidance but in my mind that's something which confuses me sometimes i think i don't do certain things because i don't enjoy them and other times i think it's just me avoiding them. pass dunno.
there was a time when i couldn't leave the house couldn't go to a shop couldn't use the phone all these things i can now do so that must be a positive.
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#12
2nd August 2012, 01:17
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Re: Fully Overcoming SA
I more or less did become free from SA once. For about 9 months. All due to a medicine called Phenelzine (Nardil). I craved attention and friendship. Became somewhat extrovert, got my 1st job in 7yrs, my 1st proper gf, my own flat, totally independant. My doc said i was NOT hypomanic. Then it faded slowly but surely. I wish i combined it with CBT. But at least I had a taster of what its like to live free from this stubborn sucker of an illness!
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