I remember when I first started to experience symptoms of anxiety and panic when I was in my late teens. The concept of being in constant fear was very new to me. I had grown up a worry wart, but the fear wasn’t constant. Suddenly I was faced with the largest obstacle I had ever faced and wasn’t sure how to tackle it.

My first reaction was medication. My doctor at the time game me xanax and I started to take it every day. At first it seemed to work pretty well…the fear seemed to go away within an hour of taking it. I could go throughout my day without fear of another pesky panic attack. But it wasn’t more than a few months later, I ran out of the pills and my doctor refused to fill my prescription so soon. I basically had to go cold turkey, which was not a fun experience, let me tell you. I started experiencing panic and anxiety even worse than before.

A few months later, I was granted the opportunity to start taking more xanax, this time by a different doctor. But I refused it. It seems at this point I had gotten a bit of a paranoia about taking any kind of drugs whatsoever.

Years went by with panic and anxiety coming and going, and I still needed a way to treat my anxiety. I had a few major panic attacks and I knew something had to be done…sooner rather than later. Drugs were out of the question. I was absolutely paranoid of getting withdrawals like I had when I was a teenager. I found it ironic how a drug that was supposed to treat an anxiety symptom ended up making me feel paranoid about taking it. I needed a paranoid treatment: one that I wasn’t so paranoid about taking.

The Paranoid Treatment:

I had called it my paranoid treatment because it was my alternative to taking medication, which made me paranoid. It was the same treatment paranoid people take because they hate drugs. It was all natural so I never had to worry about nasty withdrawals or side-effects. It was basically a mix between cognitive based therapy and a DIY solution, all in a book form. After reading this book, I’ve escaped panic, anxiety, and even drug paranoia (still need some medications to live, of course). I only look back at the hard times so I can help others and show them how to dig through the mess.

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