How do you conquer fear? Do you ignore it. Replace it or deflect it onto lesser concerns? Do you express the fear or bottle it up? How can you overcome paranoia or scary thoughts if you can’t conquer fear or at least attempt to? What brings calm and clarified solution beyond a medication to mask the symptom?
face how terrified, paranoid or afraid you are as step one.
then you can begin to deal with it on your own terms, in your own way.
after all, your mind is individual, yours only.
judy
4 Likes
I like to imagine possible good outcomes and visualize my fears and then how to make it so I don’t feel intake fear even knowing life is temporary
I try to just become apathetic to anything and everything I can.
Apathy
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
– Dune, by Frank Herbert
2 Likes
I do nothing, wait for it to pass. I am scared now and have cognitive symptoms, stronger than usual. Feel like everyone I interact with is judging me and feel unsafe. But it will go away.
1 Like
hi starrynight. I know exactly the feeling. we all deal with this I mean us with psz. daring not to think negative isn’t easy. but dare to hope, to dream of good things coming your way without knocking them down. you’ll feel happier and if you are disappointed either way you’ll feel it so why not enjoy some hope?
judy
1 Like
Fear is when own brains hold back our mind and our “spirits” or our deep motives, reasons we do what we do.
I have faced fear as a sort of challenge. It’s just another hoop to jump through. Sometimes fear is correct- sometimes we should be afraid. Other times fear itself is what we should be afraid of.
Fear sometimes a sort of defense mechanism doing its job and sometimes it’s just sort of an annoying speed bump.
Depends on the type of fear…
Fear of kidnappers or being followed… or something else that might trigger my sneaky brained thinking… I have to step back and try to apply the logic
Fear of failure… fear of ridicule… I have to just try and get the steam up to face it.
Fear of being alone… or being homeless again… I have to let that one pass through and not let it cripple me. Replace it with a lesser concern.
Fear of a drunk skinhead and his swastika tattooed thug buddies looking for fights in the park… If they ALL have bats and NO one is carrying a ball… run away… run away.
I go sit my Mexican butt in the truck and lock the doors and get ready to call the cops.
1 Like
What I like is how Bernie Sanders has said more about mental healthcare reform than anyone else in the race. He wants to reform the criminal justice system so that sick people aren’t targeted and die in prison cells instead of get helped which everyone here seems to support–help for those in need or with schizophrenia. We are a minority but we need to be strong in the face of fear. To me, apathy is understandable but not my personal solution. I really like your courage and SurprisedJ, you seem to have a lot of hope and faith. I talked to someone I met recently in town. He said he has no faith, no belief in anything, and then criticized me for my belief in God and said that because I had schizophrenia I can’t distinguish the difference. That’s not true, just because I’ve had supernatural experiences and divine intuition doesn’t mean I am unable to define reality. I know what reality is and is supposed to look like–but there are two realms, the seen and unseen.
2 Likes
I get mad at it,no room for fear or ambarrassment if your mad,anger is a great emotion directed at the right things. It has the power to change your situation
1 Like
- Work with that “psychiatrist” (or “p-doc”) to develop a medication formula that stabilizes their symptoms sufficiently so that they can tackle the psychotherapy that will disentangle their thinking.
. - The best of the psychotherapies for that currently include…
DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBSR – http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/whatMBSR.php
MBCT - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22340145
ACT – https://contextualscience.org/act
10 StEP – http://pairadocks.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-10-steps-of-emotion-processing.html
. - the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
MBBT – https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/introduction-mind-body-bridging-i-system
SEPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_Experiencing
SMPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorimotor_psychotherapy
. - or standard CBTs, like…
REBT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy
Schematherapy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_Therapy
Learned Optimism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism
Standard CBT – http://www.beckinstitute.org/what-is-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/About-CBT/252/
2 Likes
i’m really awkward at social situations. that is probably my biggest fear.
The most prevalent solution to the terrifying issues of war and night is religion. There is that trite old saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” If I was in a foxhole during war I would probably be praying faster and harder than anyone, but since I’m not in a foxhole, I have the luxury of being objective, and I can question the existence of God and all the inconsistencies of religion.
1 Like
In my experience I’ve conquered fear by either being too afraid to be afraid or getting so damn sick of being afraid that I just cease to be afraid…
but yeah I’m still too afraid to walk into a room full of people I don’t know…my social anxiety can be pretty bad.
1 Like
Notmoses, can you link to any good blogs on therapy or CBT and EBT?
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/dbt/
http://blog.timberlineknolls.com/category/dialectical-behavioral-therapy/
http://minddeep.blogspot.com/p/mindfulness-based-stress-reduction.html
2 Likes
My main problem with social situations is that I get hyperactive and resort to drugs to calm myself so I can enjoy it. I get the fear sometimes too, but mostly around people I don’t know that well.
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
The Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
Pixel.
1 Like
@StarryNight I do different things. Sometimes I say stop it and stop or change my thought(s). Sometimes I challenge it, if it’s evidence based, if not I let it go. Sometimes I ask if it’s something I can control and fix if not I let it go. Sometime I replace my negative thoughts with positive ones. Sometimes I use grounding and bring focus back to the room and what’s going on now. I, also, realized I can only have 1 or none cups of coffee in the morning. I’m making a list of thoughts, feelings, and behavior through out the day to become more in touch with the way I’m living and where my fears come from. I read a lot less news and I avoid conspiracy theory sites.