How I Cured My Anxiety Forever (My Emotional Story)
Summary
TLDRSean Caston shares his anxiety recovery journey, beginning with a panic attack that led to a series of misdiagnoses and a deep struggle with mental health. Despite the lack of understanding from doctors, Sean's determination and support from his family helped him realize the root of his issues. By accepting his condition and finding hope, he eventually overcame anxiety and now offers mentorship to help others find their path to recovery, emphasizing the importance of community and personal empowerment.
Takeaways
- 😨 The script begins with the narrator experiencing a panic attack, not knowing what it was at the time.
- 🤔 The narrator's anxiety journey started with physical symptoms that led to a series of doctor visits without clear answers.
- 💡 Intrusive thoughts and feelings of disconnection from reality were part of the narrator's experience with anxiety.
- 🌑 The narrator describes the period of anxiety as the darkest time of their life.
- 🌟 The story is about hope and recovery from anxiety, not just the experience of it.
- 🚶♂️ The narrator found solace in simple activities like walking and having meals with friends during their struggle.
- 📚 The narrator discovered hope and began to understand their condition after reading books from people with similar experiences.
- 🔍 The realization that anxiety could be the cause of their symptoms came after multiple doctor visits and tests showing no physical issues.
- 💪 Acceptance of the condition and letting go of the need to 'fix' it was a turning point in the narrator's recovery.
- 👨👩👧👦 The importance of a strong support system, particularly the narrator's family, was crucial during the recovery process.
- 🌱 The narrator's recovery was not immediate but came after understanding and applying certain principles consistently.
- 🤝 The creation of a mentorship program aimed at helping others overcome anxiety by providing a community and guidance based on personal experience.
Q & A
What triggered Sean's anxiety journey?
-Sean's anxiety journey began with a panic attack, which he initially did not recognize as such, and led him to believe something was seriously wrong with his health.
How did Sean initially react to his panic attack?
-Sean was confused and scared, thinking he might have a heart issue, breathing problem, or be going crazy. He felt the need to get away and started seeking medical help.
What were the physical symptoms that Sean experienced?
-Sean experienced rapid heartbeats, trouble breathing, and intrusive thoughts, which made him feel disconnected and led to out-of-body experiences and a sense of unreality.
How did doctors respond to Sean's concerns about his health?
-The doctors Sean visited repeatedly told him that everything was fine and that there was nothing wrong with him, which further increased his anxiety.
What was Sean's emotional state during his anxiety journey?
-Sean felt numb, sad, depressed, and constantly questioned why this was happening to him, describing it as the darkest time of his life.
What did Sean realize about anxiety after going through his recovery process?
-Sean realized that anxiety might convince people that what they're experiencing is not anxiety but something else, and that identifying the problem was the first step towards long-term freedom.
What was the turning point for Sean in his recovery process?
-The turning point was when Sean decided to let go, accept his symptoms, and stop trying to fight them, which allowed his recovery to truly begin.
How did Sean's family support him during his anxiety journey?
-Sean's family provided emotional support, helped him seek medical help, and were there for him when he needed them, playing a crucial role in his recovery.
What role did the community play in Sean's recovery?
-The community, or mentorship, Sean created later on, provided a support structure and guidance for others going through similar experiences, showing that recovery is possible and inevitable.
What is the main focus of the mentorship Sean created?
-The mentorship focuses on helping people overcome anxiety by guiding them step by step, enabling them to become their own guides and live freely without constantly coping or managing anxiety.
How does Sean describe his current state after overcoming anxiety?
-Sean describes himself as confident, active, outgoing, and fearless, with an underlying layer of resilience that will take him wherever he goes next.
Outlines
😨 The Dawn of Anxiety
Sean's anxiety journey began with a panic attack that led to a series of physical symptoms, causing him to question his health and sanity. Despite multiple doctor visits, he received no clear answers, which exacerbated his anxiety. Sean experienced intrusive thoughts, disconnection from reality, and a deep sense of sadness and depression. This period marked the darkest time of his life, but it was also the beginning of his hope-filled recovery story.
🤔 The Search for Answers
Sean's quest for understanding his condition involved numerous doctor visits, each ending with reassurances of good health but no answers to his symptoms. This led to a significant weight loss and a feeling of detachment from the world. His family, confused and concerned, rallied around him, offering support and trying to find solutions. Despite the lack of a medical diagnosis, Sean's symptoms persisted, leading to a realization that his condition might be psychological rather than physical.
📚 Acceptance and the Path to Recovery
Upon accepting that his condition might be anxiety, Sean found solace in books from others who had similar experiences. He decided to stop fighting his symptoms and let them be, which marked the beginning of his recovery. His sister witnessed his transformation, noting his newfound confidence and resilience. Sean's recovery was not immediate but was supported by a strong support system, particularly his family, which played a crucial role in his journey.
🌟 From Struggle to Mentorship
Sean's recovery journey inspired him to help others overcome anxiety. He created a mentorship program aimed at guiding people to long-term freedom from anxiety, not just coping or managing it. The program focuses on building a community of individuals who have experienced and overcome anxiety, providing a support structure and sharing their progress to inspire hope and recovery in others. Sean's mentorship is about empowering people to become their own guides and return to living life freely.
🛠️ The Key to Overcoming Anxiety
Sean emphasizes that recovery from anxiety is not only possible but inevitable with the right approach. His mentorship program guides individuals step by step, helping them understand principles that lead to consistent recovery. He has witnessed numerous success stories, which reinforce his belief in the effectiveness of his approach. The ultimate goal is to help people live without the need for constant coping mechanisms, allowing them to enjoy life fully.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Panic Attack
💡Anxiety
💡Intrusive Thoughts
💡Disconnection
💡Unreality
💡Depression
💡Recovery
💡Support Structure
💡Mentorship
💡Resilience
💡Long-term Freedom
Highlights
The transcript begins with the narrator experiencing a panic attack, unaware of its nature, leading to a journey of anxiety.
Physical symptoms and intrusive thoughts intensify the narrator's anxiety, prompting a search for medical answers.
Despite numerous doctor visits, the narrator receives no clear diagnosis, leading to feelings of disconnection and unreality.
The narrator's struggle with anxiety leads to a dark period of sadness, depression, and questioning existence.
The story shifts from darkness to hope, introducing Sean and his recovery from anxiety.
Sean realizes the value of simple pleasures in life, such as walking and enjoying meals, during his struggle.
A quote about darkness and light inspires Sean, symbolizing his first glimpse of hope in recovery.
Sean identifies panic attacks as a part of his anxiety and acknowledges the need to face the problem head-on.
Despite reassurances from doctors, Sean continues to experience physical symptoms, leading to further anxiety.
Sean's family is introduced, showing their confusion and concern for his health, and their support in seeking answers.
The narrator's sister recounts the family's initial confusion and their efforts to help Sean through research and support.
Sean's anxiety progresses to housebound status, with constant worry and a significant impact on his quality of life.
The family's support becomes a crucial factor in Sean's journey towards recovery.
Sean accepts his condition when all medical tests come back clear, deciding to let go and accept his symptoms.
Acceptance and the decision to stop fighting his symptoms mark the beginning of Sean's recovery.
Sean's sister reflects on his transformation from a person struggling with anxiety to a confident and resilient individual.
Sean creates a mentorship program to help others overcome anxiety, emphasizing the importance of community and support.
The mentorship focuses on long-term freedom from anxiety, providing guidance and a community of recovered individuals.
Sean shares his frustration at not having known the key to recovery earlier, and his motivation to help others avoid the same struggle.
The mentorship program aims to empower individuals to overcome anxiety and live freely, without the need for constant coping or management.
Sean's success stories and consistent principles demonstrate the inevitability of recovery when the right steps are taken.
Transcripts
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it all started
with a panic attack at the time i didn't
even know it was a panic attack
all i knew was something was seriously
wrong
i didn't know if i had a heart issue
if i had a breathing problem or if i was
just going crazy
but i knew something was wrong and i had
to get away
this started my anxiety journey
i started getting physical symptoms that
convinced me
that something was seriously wrong and
that i needed to get this fixed
otherwise it was going to be too late
and yet
every time i went to doctors i couldn't
get an answer
they didn't really tell me anything i
started getting these intrusive thoughts
of
am i going crazy am i struggling with
a mental illness over time i started
feeling disconnected
i started getting these out of body
experiences
i started getting this feeling of
unreality where
i began questioning existence
over time i was just numb i was just so
sad
and so depressed and i just asked myself
how did this happen why did this happen
it was the darkest time of my life
but this story isn't about darkness
this story is about hope
my name is sean and this is my anxiety
recovery story
it was the small things when i was
struggling
i realized the things i missed the most
were the simple things
going for a nice walk relaxing and
having a nice meal
just having fun with friends
i once heard a quote a blind man from
birth will never know the meaning of
darkness
because he has never seen light
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and for the first time i saw the light
at the end of the tunnel
maybe this was anxiety maybe this is how
anxiety works
maybe anxiety's job is to convince you
that what you're experiencing is not
anxiety
to convince you it's anything else but
anxiety
for the first time i had hope
i finally identified the problem and
once i understood this
i was able to focus on long-term freedom
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i felt like something was wrong i didn't
know what it was
and the more i focused on it the more
my heart started palpitating
i started having trouble breathing and
this had never happened before
and while i was at work i had to step
away
and i felt like i couldn't breathe i
felt like
i was gonna die
and what i found out was
that was a panic attack and when i had
that panic attack
something became increasingly clear
something i didn't want to admit
which was this could happen to me
anywhere
i went back to work i was trying to act
normal
but i felt like something just wasn't
right
i kind of had this fear of what if it
happens again
so i went to the doctors i was trying to
understand
why i was getting such rapid heartbeats
why my blood pressure was up
and all the doctors were just looking at
me saying
everything's fine and then i went to
another doctor
and they said everything was fine and
then i went to a third doctor
and they said there's nothing wrong this
is the point where
i started losing a lot of weight i
started feeling a little bit
disconnected
from the world i felt like i was almost
detached
i didn't know if there was something
physically wrong with me if i had a
mental
illness at this point i called my
parents back at home
and i told them something's not right
and my parents told me to come back home
they said we'll figure it out once you
get here
when sean called us up and said that
he wasn't feeling too good and we asked
him what was going on and he told us
that he was going from
one doctor to the other doctor to the
other doctor
and that confused us a lot we said sean
why are you doing that
i mean to say why is it that you're
going to
these different doctors all the time so
i was actually in college at the time
and so my parents would keep me updated
just
you know they called me one day and told
me the situation with sean
um i think at that time we were all
pretty confused as to what it
was um we were all you know just trying
to figure out all the solutions that we
could
um because i was in college the best
thing that i could do was
you know research online and kind of
give advice to my parents that way
but um in the beginning we were pretty
confused
and everybody was just trying to put you
know all attention on sean to make sure
that he felt better as soon as he could
and when i came back home i kept going
to doctors
and they wouldn't do anything they would
just give me some medication and
ask me sean have you struggled with
anxiety in the past
and i said no and i said well
you have to understand i'm anxious about
how i'm feeling
i'm not anxious and general i'm just
anxious about how i'm feeling
i don't know what's wrong if we could
understand what it was
we could fix it and they were shocked by
how upset i was
by them telling me i had a clean bill of
health
like why was this happening to me i just
wanted to go back to live i was
carefree i was young i was having a
great time
i didn't want to deal with this i felt
like
the smallest things were so difficult
i used to enjoy going to the grocery
store and now i can't even
i can't even leave my house because what
happens if these feelings come back
what happens if i'm getting panic
attacks
and whenever sean was saying that mom
i'm having a
fast heartbeat and stuff like that in
the middle of the night he used to wake
me up
and i used to take him to the hospital
then oh yeah
sean it must be having some kind of a
problem and so to see him when he came
home
he was more or less housebound he was
worried all the time he was just
you know in this state of like constant
anxiety and animosity he didn't really
know what was happening to him so
it was really hard to watch i did not
realize in the beginning
but throughout i was trying to help him
in
trying to make him very comfortable that
this child
is such a strong child from the from the
beginning
and what is going on maybe something
wrong with him
i had never seen him so quiet um he
stopped really like
i guess like caring about himself in the
way that he used to he was very outgoing
before
anxiety it's your mental state that
that's what is happening to you there is
nothing physically wrong with it
and sean said no no no let's test one
more test he said i can do that test for
you there is no problem let me do it for
you
and he went ahead and did that test and
we waited for the results
the results came in he said see i told
you there is nothing this result is
completely clear
sean wanted to see those results and he
looked at it and he says
so there is nothing he said we have
ruled out everything
and then i came to the realization
this is it there's nothing i can do to
fix this
i've i've tried everything i've tried
everything and i don't know what's wrong
and everyone says it's anxiety but it's
just this isn't
what else this can't be anxiety
something else is wrong and even if it
is anxiety there's nothing i can do
that's when i decided to let go that's
when i decided that
nothing i can do can fix this and for
the first time
i just accepted it and i said it can do
whatever it wants
i don't care and i found a couple of
books
of people who had claimed to go through
something like this
but at this point i was so skeptical i
had read so many books
i had listened to so many people who i
thought were experts
but i didn't have a choice
what else could i do that's when i just
let the symptoms be there and i said
consume me
because everything i do just makes
things worse
and that's when my recovery truly began
that was the first time that was the
very first time
we saw sean realizing
that this was anxiety sean is one of the
most confident people i know now
um it's honestly awesome that i get to
be a sister and see him kind of go
through this journey because
seeing where he was to seeing where he
is now it's like he's a completely
different person
um he's so active he's so outgoing he's
also
so fearless but he has this like element
of resilience to him that
you can just tell is an underlying layer
of his life now
and it'll take him wherever he goes next
when it came to my recovery journey i
didn't really have the right guidance
or even the right information but one
thing was exceptionally clear
i had a very strong support structure
around me
i can say confidently looking back that
i wouldn't have been able to recover
without my family
without their support but here's the
truth
even though they were as supportive as
they could be
it's very hard for someone to know what
you're going through
unless they've experienced it themselves
no matter how empathetically driven they
are
now my family was able to help me
and out of all the disadvantages i had
during my recovery journey one thing was
very clear
my family was a huge advantage
and so when i wanted to create this
mentorship really
focused on helping people overcome i
wanted to take that to the next level
i knew how important a community was i
knew how important it was to have a
support structure
to guide you step by step because this
wasn't overnight
and this was going to take time and i
thought why don't we have a community of
people who have not only just gone
through this
but came out of this so that when
individuals see other members who have
gone through this earlier
and have actually made progress and not
only inspires hope
but it gives them permission to start
focusing on recovery as well
so what we've done in the mentorship is
we've really created a community
really focused on long-term freedom this
isn't just a community just to say
things about being positive but people
that have actually
lived through it but are a couple of
steps ahead of you
these people have been experiencing the
exact same things and in fact
now their focus is helping others
overcome as well
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my name is sean caston and i know
exactly what you're going through
i know exactly what's keeping you up at
night
these what-if thoughts i know exactly
what it is because i went through it
myself
once i found the key to recovery
recovery wasn't overnight
but i noticed one thing for sure i had
made more progress than i ever had
before
surely my symptoms started disappearing
started falling off one at a time and
over time i went back to living i never
thought about anxiety
just wasn't a big deal i just went back
to living and
this was just something that happened
and i finally came out of it
but i was always upset i was always
irritated and frustrated by the fact
that nobody had told me this sooner
why did i sacrifice so much time so much
suffering
that's when i realized i needed to help
other people come out of this as well
but if i could just show people that in
fact if i can guide people through that
what i could do is have them become
their own guides
no longer talking about anxiety just
going back to living
freely like they used to be enjoying
life
and that's exactly what we've done i've
created a mentorship where i'm taking
people by the hand
and helping them fully overcome this not
cope with this
not manage with this that's what i was
told the key was to overcome this
the key wasn't to focus on your anxiety
forever the key was to
fix this so that you could just go back
to living not dealing with anxiety
constantly
not always coping or managing but to
live
and the whole key is to help people
overcome this themselves
guiding them step by step so that they
no longer
need any crutch once i understood a few
principles
once i stayed consistent recovery was
possible
and in the mentorship we've seen too
many people to be wrong
i've seen too many success stories
to be convinced that someone is just
unique
the truth is once you do a few things
recovery is not just possible
it's inevitable
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