If you suffer from general anxiety disorder and you sometimes get anxiety attacks, chances are that you also have unwanted and weird thoughts. Your mind may sometimes present you with such absurdly negative thoughts that you may actually get to be afraid of them… much in the same way that some people are afraid of snakes or spiders.
The real trouble about having weird thoughts fueled by anxiety is not the thoughts in themselves, but rather how you react to them. The more you oppose to having certain thoughts, the stronger they will get. If you start fearing certain weird thoughts, that will only make you feel hopeless as they keep coming back with renewed strength.
The surest way of overcoming fear is confrontation. When you are afraid of something in the outside world, you can dismiss your fears by facing their source. Much in the same way, you can overcome your weird thoughts by facing them, and dismissing them as ridicule thoughts – thoughts that don’t have a rightful place within your mind.
If you’re frequently assaulted with weird thoughts and you have already started to fear having these thoughts, the idea of confronting your thoughts may seem terrifying. But it’s really not as complicated as it sounds, and you must remember that it’s your fear that’s empowering those weird thoughts in the first place.
Slowly and surely is the best approach to conquering any kind of fear – even the fear of having weird thoughts. First and foremost, you need to remember that it’s all taking place in your mind, where you should be in charge. Second, you have to remember that failing to confront your weird thoughts will only make them stronger. Third, you have to keep dismissing your thoughts as something you are unrelated with.
Once you get in the habit of doing so, your weird thoughts will start looking alien to you. Always remember this: either they’re good or bad, thoughts always come and go through your mind. You are your mind, not your thoughts. Once you start seeing things in this way, you may actually realize you’re not as anxious as you used to be.
