GRATITUDE

When my battle with anxiety started, my whole world turned upside down. Because of it I became a different person. I am no longer the happy go lucky person that I used to be. I no longer enjoy spending time with family and friends because I fear that my anxiety might blow up at any time. The simplest task has become so difficult to do. I am missing so much in my life, in my son's life and the people around me whom I care for and love.

I no longer feel my gratitude. Instead of pondering on what I am currently feeling I should really show my gratitude and be thankful for still being here, having a great family, having a great god, friends, my hands, my feet, my ears, my eyes..well you get the point...I hope from this day forward when negative thoughts or feelings come passing through I can replace them with my gratitude and just remember the great things I still have in my life.

"Look at what you have left in your life, never look at what you have lost. At a time of sorrow you are so overwhelmed and swamped by the shock and pain and the grief that you are not even conscious of the JOYS that are alive deep under that blanket of grief. Determine to uncover your smothered joys and let them breathe and flourish again! There are many things that you are still thankful for even though you do not feel your gratitude. Begin by reminiscing. Relive your HAPPY memories. Treat yourself to replays of that great collection of joyful experiences that have occurred in your past. There are many wonderful things that happened to you in life."