How can I live a happy life again?

[zeppelin kid]

My life is going down hill and its been going on for about two years now. It started with anxiety and panic attacks which led to depression. Now I dont go outside of my home in fear of these anxiety prone situations. I dropped out of school and stopped hanging out with friends and really wish my life could get better fast. Does anyone know any ways to start new again or any good medications to take?

[spooner]

go get therapy.

or man it up, but not everyone can do that.

[lalalamort]

ive been there with the panic........

try to take it in steps.......e.g. walk to your door, then the enxt time walk outside, then down the street etc etc.

Meditation is good

[zeppelin kid]

Therapy is a short lived relief and most therapists want you to go in there at least every other week and It gets annoying after a while. And I have been man'in it up but It doesnt do much either other then get you to face the anxious situations.

[lalalamort]

lets say pain caused by anxiety=1
Chance of certain situation happening 1 in 10 000? times the chance that your anxiety about it could stop it from happening 1 100?

10 000 times 100 equals 1 million

unless the certain situation or something going terribly wrong is going to cause you a million times more pain than the anxiety, then its not worth, in the overall sceme of your happiness. Easier said than done.

Then you might think that there might be something out there that you hadnt thought of that may go wrong adn by worrying or planning you can figure it out.

chance of something terrible happening that you havnt thought of 1 in 50 000
Chance you will realise what that terible thing. ( but you wont realise it if you dont worry) 1 in 1000
Chance you will be able to compeltely solve this problem when it comes up 1 in 100

50 000 times 1000 times 1000

thats 50 billion....

The top one is a baic theroy of Cognitive Behavioual Therapy

The bottom one is something i obsess about