Anxiety Sufferer Who Writes Self-Help Books on Anxiety.

[Jean Thomas]

Greetings! I'm Jean Thomas. I've suffered from anxiety since the age ten. I've had the panic attacks, agoraphobia and social anxiety that makes having a Nine to Five difficult.


For the longest time I was in denial about my social anxiety and panic attacks-even though I’ve had them since I was a child. I never knew there was a name for the times that I would cry until I hyperventilated and felt light-headed. I always just assumed it was me being dramatic.


Now that I know what I have and I've learned how to manage it, I now make it my goal to help others.


I write self help ebooks and give tips on how to manage anxiety on social networking. Every new tip I learn, I share. We're in this together, guys!

 

[amy88]

I think it's wonderful that you write self help books and you suffer anxiety yourself -- I think it's a lot easier to take advice from people that have been there and lived it!


So nice to have you here!

 

[Jean Thomas]

I think it's wonderful that you write self help books and you suffer anxiety yourself -- I think it's a lot easier to take advice from people that have been there and lived it!


So nice to have you here!

It's nice to be here! I agree, it's easier to take advice from people who know what you're dealing with. Before I started writing, I would some of the self-help books that were already out there. And it was all written by doctors with PH.D.s. They used stuffy medical words that confused me and made me feel like a paintent with a terminal illness.


Thats why I decided to write books in simple wording that anyone could understand

 

[Androlo]

Greetings! I'm Jean Thomas. I've suffered from anxiety since the age ten. I've had the panic attacks, agoraphobia and social anxiety that makes having a Nine to Five difficult.
For the longest time I was in denial about my social anxiety and panic attacks-even though I’ve had them since I was a child. I never knew there was a name for the times that I would cry until I hyperventilated and felt light-headed. I always just assumed it was me being dramatic.


Now that I know what I have and I've learned how to manage it, I now make it my goal to help others.


I write self help ebooks and give tips on how to manage anxiety on social networking. Every new tip I learn, I share. We're in this together, guys!

I'm very interested in checking out your material. I am a writer myself on similar related topics, although I mostly write about narcissistic abuse seeing as I was a victim of it for so long. But I've also been through much anxiety, depression, anguish, stress, PTSD, etc, etc throughout my life and therefore do often delve into these other areas. Oddly enough, I would study mind, psychology and psychiatry and other related subjects at a very young age and have continued to do so over the course of over 20 years but even so, they didn't really give me a true understanding of the true nature of things until I experienced them myself. I sometimes cannot help but feel that I brought those experiences on subconsciously by choice without really realizing how negative and painful they would be but, of course, all of us are constantly manifesting our own experiences. Anyway, do you have any books already available? If so, what are the titles? And are you working on any material at the moment?

 

[RichE8475]

I have contemplated about getting my message about what I have been going through my entire adult life. I really do want to, but when I start to do something about it I panic. I feel that people are going to make fin of me, and they will just be mean. If, perhaps, I made a YouTube channel, would people watch? How many mean comments would I get? It is so hard when there are those out in the world that just think the we are making stuff up or trying to get attention. As much have I have said, "if you were to ever have a major panic attack, then you may understand". However, I would never wish this on anyone.


@Jean Thomas Please continue to spread awareness. There are so many things about this mental illness that many people do not know. I pray you the best in your journey, and if I ever get the courage to follow your lead I would love to collaborate with you on somethings. Keep up the good work.

 

[kgord]

It is sometimes difficult not to let feelings of anxiety overwhelm you. Things are not going very well for me in my personal life...well lets face it..they are crap, but there are positive things to focus on, and that


is one way I try to cope with my anxiety. I think putting what you have learned into your books Jean is a very positive idea, and one that keeps ideas, techniques, and management of your anxiety first and forefront in your mind..Kudos!

 

[Androlo]

I have contemplated about getting my message about what I have been going through my entire adult life. I really do want to, but when I start to do something about it I panic. I feel that people are going to make fin of me, and they will just be mean. If, perhaps, I made a YouTube channel, would people watch? How many mean comments would I get? It is so hard when there are those out in the world that just think the we are making stuff up or trying to get attention. As much have I have said, "if you were to ever have a major panic attack, then you may understand". However, I would never wish this on anyone.
@Jean Thomas Please continue to spread awareness. There are so many things about this mental illness that many people do not know. I pray you the best in your journey, and if I ever get the courage to follow your lead I would love to collaborate with you on somethings. Keep up the good work.

Unfortunately, there are way too many judgemental people in the world but at the end of the day, your story is your story whether those people like it or not. Why should you care about what they think? They know nothing until they've walked a mile in your shoes (which they haven't). Anyone who ever does this kind of thing has haters and gets ridiculed in some way but that's only the minority and the positive will always outweigh the negative. Just don't acknowledge them. Celebrities and famous people get plenty of negative comments from all sorts of people but those people's opinions don't matter and get ignored because it's about the people who support you, not the people who don't.

 

[RichE8475]

Androlo I tell myself that all the time, and really do know that people have their opinion. I am getting more comfortable lately with telling others how I have dealt with, and how I am still dealing with anxiety and agoraphobia. One of the things that I loved most before the agoraphobia was acting and theater. I think I loved it so much because I was able to be someone else for awhile. I need to bring that attitude into my real life situations. Thank you for your message, and stating its 'about the people who support you' rather than those who do not. I hope all is well.

 

[Zeesi]

Great! I think it is imperative for a person who has been through "something" to give their insight on what they went through, how it affected them, how they coped. Sometimes it can be a lot better, and feel much more relatable, to get an insider's point of view rather than to get an outsider's point of view, even if that 'outsider' is a 'professional'.


Don't get me wrong, I'm not against reading material from people who have studied anxiety and who have written books about it, or against people who know people who have anxiety and they've written about their experience with them. To me it just feels better to get reading material from those who have first-hand experience in things. It makes the statement "I know how you feel" seem much more plausible.