The Many Faces on Facebook and How Panic Away Can Help

My girlfriend called the other day and said to me, “I’m a little embarrassed to mention this but I have to tell someone. When I make a friend request on Facebook it’s amazing how much anxiety I feel over whether they will confirm me as a friend or not. I wait with such anxious thoughts….what if they just ignore it…what if they don’t even want to be my friend? What if they don’t think I’m worthy enough?  And if they do accept and see that I only have 50-60 friends do I look like a failure because they might have 200, 300, 400?” These are not just passing thoughts, but something that she dwells on and consumes her almost every day. She said, “I can work myself into such a state that I seriously think I’m having a panic attack. The more I think about it, I can feel my heart beating faster, my hands get all sweaty, I feel so jittery and  light headed that I have to sit down. The worst part is that I don’t know how to calm myself down”. Oh, at that very moment I was so thankful to introduce her to the Panic Away Program! My dear friend had silently suffered with this for quite a long time because she was too embarrassed to talk about it….until now.

It`s so easy to compare yourself to others and there’s so much pressure that we place on ourselves to be perfect and successful.  We seem to be obsessed about how “good” we appear to other people. While we each need to practice our own self-acceptance these irrational thoughts would come at her so fast that it was impossible for her to stop the feelings and sensations….simply because she didn`t have the tools on how.

Barry Joe McDonagh’s Panic Away Program is teaching her how to stop these thoughts when they come into her mind so that she doesn`t experience the full blown panic attacks any longer!  She is so relieved!