Take heart! Just because it’s difficult does not mean that it is impossible. It’s a matter of learning the right tools to help you successfully move forward into the future you desire.
One way to navigate through this is to learn to identify something that you enjoy and get a sense of personal satisfaction and/or empowerment from doing things on your own.
Through the use of coping skills, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and a supportive therapeutic relationship, you can learn to embrace the strengths that the disorder has enabled you to develop.
First, it’s important to realize that your body is not trying to drive you crazy, it is merely trying to protect you by alerting you to what it believes to be a potential danger to you. So, here are four things you can do to help yourself overcome intrusive thoughts and memories.
Intrusive thoughts are often related to memories of painful past events or unwelcome projections of things you’d never choose to think about, if you had your way. Either way, the one thing that they are definitely related to is anxiety, and quite possibly past trauma.