Monthly Archives: January 2016

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What they teach you when you are treated for a panic disorder is something that I find particularly important. And I would like everyone to read this because this is something that I really think everybody can use.
   The whole basis of the treatment is merely a true understanding that although this is terrible and you feel as if this is the end – ITS NOT. The most effective treatment from any really caring, trained doctor isn’t drugs or any other means of escape from it (which is the easy way for both of you and probably more profitable for them) Instead, its EXPOSURE. What that means is that when you’re knees are giving out and it feels like you cant breathe and you feel like this is truly the end. STAY. Dance with it. Let it run through you. It will be ok.

  So, It’s like being shot with an arrow. This hurts right now, but you’re ok. You shouldn’t struggle to try to pull it back out, you have to push it through yourself. Let it run its course. Or else you can just keep taking perscription pills for the pain and just walk around with an arrow stuck in you forever.

THE SIMPLE TREATMENT IS JUST WHOLEHEARTEDLY KNOWING THAT ALTHOUGH THIS FEELS TERRIBLE RIGHT NOW, ITS NOT THE END. YOU’RE OK. TIME WILL HEAL IT. BE PATIENT.

And that right there, is one of the most important pieces of information I’ve ever learned in my life. Whether you suffer from panic disorder or not.

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The main problem is that we live in an age where instant gratification is so ubiquitous and familiar that I believe it’s breaking away at our fortitude towards things that are more genuine and important. If you want to define a certain word, or find out who sings the song you listening to for the first time, or find the name of a 15th century Greco-Romanian painter, or quickly order a new part for your broken lawnmower, or even link up with a complete stranger for meaningless sex, we can typically find all these things within a few minutes right at our fingertips.
    But things that are more lasting and (in my opinion) necessary for any type of survival of the human soul, still have no short cuts and still require a lot of patience and work. Emotional, spiritual and physical health, love and lasting relationships with friends, family and significant others, financial comfort….. These things still require years of hard work that many living today have just completely lost the patience for. It seems to me that people no longer crave anything thats not convenient give up so easily when they don’t see direct results right away.

   This is indicative of a generation that is just plain fucking lazy and spoiled. If we cant get what we want right when we want it then we just give up and convice ourselves that its not worth it or that its not important.
And thats just plain pathetic to me.

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