The Linden Method team were a huge support for me, they understood all of the sensations and symptoms I was feeling and they always gave me first class guidance during my recovery. Without hesitation I decided to purchase The Home Learning Linden Method pack and it was the best thing I have ever bought, it had a massive impact on my life. I finally found someone who talked sense and really understood what I was experiencing. One day while obsessively searching on YouTube, I came across Charles Linden and The Linden Method. I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO TALKED SENSE AND REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS EXPERIENCING.” My life was completely miserable and I was really at my wit’s end. I was offered medication to help me “cope with” my anxiety disorder. I went to the doctors in the village where I lived and was put on the waiting list to get CBT treatment. I then started to have anxiety about harming other people my mind finding the worst possible scenarios and then running with it- my anxiety would go into a never ending cycle of “what if” thinking – for example, what if I accidently killed someone? What if I have upset someone in some way? I became a recluse in my home and the thought of talking to my parents about it terrified me, often resulting in me snapping at the people I loved and then crying. Even when I was house bound my anxiety still managed to find things to panic about. “I clearly remember one morning, I was out on a walk with my parents in the countryside and something just didn’t seem quite right.”Īs a result I feared going outside, which grew into rather severe agoraphobia. The more I worried about derealisation, the more my anxiety spiralled out of control to such an extent that I eventually experience terrifying panic attacks that would suddenly and randomly appear and ruin whatever I was doing. I even found myself pinching and biting my arms to reassure myself that I was actually awake and not dreaming. It was as though I was looking through a strange veil of fog, nothing seemed as it should be and when I looked in the mirror I couldn’t recognise my own reflection.
I clearly remember one morning, I was out on a walk with my parents in the countryside and something just didn’t seem quite right. My anxiety started off initially with derealisation and later with depersonalisation. All I wanted to do was to stay in my bedroom at home, obsessively researching my symptoms on the Internet. I eventually lost contact with my friends, as I was too anxious to go out and see them, even a short train ride to a neighbouring town was a huge challenge for me.
I did my best to hide my anxiety from people but inside I was an anxious mess. All the things I loved to do in life, such as going on holiday, celebrating Christmas and meals out with my family became a chore. It felt like my life was coming to an end and I thought I was going insane – I couldn’t enjoy anything I previously liked to do without feeling overwhelmed with anxiety. I suffered from derealisation, depersonalisation, GAD, agoraphobia, panic attacks as well as scary and disturbing thoughts, for around 4 years of my life. My anxiety really reached its peak when I was around 18 years old. All the way through school I was the one that would sit at the back of the classroom and avoid communication with others, which made my anxiety bearable. I was always an anxious person, even from a very young age. Hello, my name is Richard from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. “I EVEN FOUND MYSELF PINCHING AND BITING MY ARMS TO REASSURE MYSELF THAT I WAS ACTUALLY AWAKE AND NOT DREAMING.”
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