Overcoming Anxiety - My Story

I beat anxiety, and I wanted to share with the world how I was able to do this.

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[antoniomonteiroai]

Amazing content! Stay up with the videos, excited about looking at more of these

[therealtalkvlogs]

Very good!! Nice to hear different ways of dealing with these types of obstacles.

[rojaszela]

I really resonated with the points you made in your video.

It's also interesting to note the words love and self-control in 2 Timothy 1:7 because it's they on both ends of the list of the fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23. Although a different Greek word is used for self-control, it's close enough.

I liked what you said about simply believing what God's word says, I've struggled with that myself too. It reminds me of a Latin saying, Credo ut intelligam, which means, "I believe so that I may understand".

I had an odd experience where I seemed to swap gaming addiction for worrying what people at church think of me (social anxiety). I was also experiencing OCD (intrusive thoughts). My anxiety seemed to get worse when I started burdening others about my worrying what they think and OCD with my constant checking for reassurance from them. I'd also collect and sort all the bible verses, Christian quotes, and Christian songs I could that seemed to speak to my anxiety. Then I'd go to those same people with what I found and I noticed I was doing this to also seek reassurance to believe God's promises were meant for me too. The sad part was that I was focusing so much on the ones that didn't respond to me right away (facebook or by email) that it was as if I were deaf to those who actually did respond to me with reassurance. The good news is, after about a year of this, I'm finally starting to believe in God's word for myself instead of depending too much on someone else's reassurance to do so (it's not a bad thing to be validated by others, but God's word must have the final say though and nobody else can believe for me).

Speaking of identifying triggers, I read about that in a book I read about how to overcome my OCD called "Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder." The book said to identify you obsessional fears and transfer responsibility to God (let Him handle it). Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy was also mentioned, it basically involves accepting vulnerability and choosing not to respond with compulsions. One excellent point made in that book is that feeling helpless is a good thing for Christians, it reminds us of our need of God.

Another great point: Eliminating toxic influences, such as music that doesn't do anything other than validate your feelings and yet doesn't help you overcome. We have to be careful what messages we're putting into our heads. I think we have to be careful with both lyrics and the way the music is played too. The lyrics and music should be consistent with each other. A song about peace wouldn't make sense in heavy metal, just like telling someone you love them wouldn't make sense in an angry voice.

About accepting God's forgiveness, believing and feeling reassured of it for myself was a big struggle for me personally. I thank God for the Christian friends He placed in my life that put up with me for so long. They've helped to exemplify that forgiveness so I could finally come to the point of believing for myself. That experience had helped me be more forgiving of myself and others.

I have a secondary channel called "Munching Promises", where I've begun uploading videos that list the bible promises I collected into a blog. I've been using a text to speech program and a video editing software to do this, but I've been finding that to be way too time consuming. I'm thinking of just showing them on screen from my blog using OBS and reading them outloud. It would be way easier, for sure. lol

I'll be subscribing to you on that channel because this channel I'm using to communicate with you is mostly used by my dad.

[graces]

Beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing.

[BelindaCheryll]

Great word my sister. This is so true. Anxiety, depression, fear only comes from the enemy. God is a God of love, joy, happiness, peace and we have to know and believe that these were given unto us. We have to be willing to accept Jesus as our Lord and savior. This is definitely not an easy topic but thank you for sharing. New subbie

[rache-lita]

Amazing story❤️ I read ur comment on the sprinkle of Jesus app! Keep doing the great work!!

[crazyazmommy]

Congratulations on overcoming! Amen YHWH’s Word is #1 ! Secular music has very bad intentions and spirits behind it, I’m glad you got away from it, if you haven’t seen John Todd’s interview ( done before he went missing) he blows the whistle on that industry. It opened my eyes and staying away from Satan’s tricks helped me, the entertainment industry as a whole plus more but that one is a major too he uses.
I have had a ton going on the last year and still do through today therefore causing anxiety, I can now empathize not just sympathize and it is awful! Your story of overcoming is encouraging, thank you for your tips and YH bless you and keep you in The Mighty All Powerful Name Of Jesus Christ of Nazareth/ Yahusha HaMashiach. 😊❤️

[christinachavez]

how are you doing since you last posted that video🙏

[josewr]

I’m dealing with a type of Anxiety, is there any way we can get in contact to talk about it?