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The information contained within the contents of this web site, and within my voice recordings is all about my personal experiences and methods used to successfully recover from nervous illness, including agoraphobia. 

Having tried a variety of doctors and methods, for almost eight long years, it wasn’t until I finally found the answer--the one that cured me!  When I used that final method, exclusively in my attempt to recover from this very common, yet seemingly misunderstood problem, that I was able to put it all behind me.  Now over 25 years later, the Internet provides me a means to share the method of my recovery with all of you--those afflicted by a nervous illness and/or those who may love and care for some one who is afflicted.

I continue to feel a deep sympathy toward every victim of nervous illness, because I have actually experienced and lived through the depths of despair the sufferer goes through with this debilitating problem--high level stress, anxiety, panic, fear, and finally, agoraphobia. 

It is very much an illness of your attitude to fear, panic.  Because it is an illness of what you think, how you think, you can recover. Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed.  A continuous state of fear, whatever the cause, gradually stimulates the adrenalin-releasing nerves to produce a set pattern of disturbing sensations.  The moment the sufferer becomes afraid of the alarming, strange sensations produced by continuous fear and tension, so places him/herself in the circle of fear-adrenalin-fear.

Upon seeing our family doctor, I told him about all these odd feelings I was having, and he gave me a quick check up.  He asked me if I smoked, I said "Yes," and he suggested I cut down.  He asked if I drank coffee, I said "a little," and he advised me to cut back on that, too.  Then, he gave me some mild tranquilizers to take, which I took in the hopes they would clear this thing up.  But, they didn’t do a thing for me!  Even later, after increasing the medication 6-fold, my situation did not improve. 

Most likely you, too, have been examined and told everything seems to be OK physically, but you didn’t buy that and why should you, when you have been having these anxious symptoms and feelings? 

Instead of getting better, my nervous condition escalated over an 8-year period.  So severe, I eventually became housebound and didn’t care to, or want to, leave the safety of our home.  I couldn’t explain it at the time, but I was afraid of going out and having a panic attack "in front of someone," or worse yet, being all by myself out there, with no one to help should I need it—This Was the most frightening of all the scary and uncomfortable feelings I’ve had.  Along with "those" fears was the fear of "How bad is the next one going to be?"

I wanted to know what was happening to me, why I felt this way, and how to come out of it, but it was always a dead end, seeming as though nobody else had ever traveled this road before and there would never be any easy instructions or directions to get me off this very troubling and scary road. 

I really began to think I had a brand new problem, unknown to medical science!  Was I pioneering a new illness?  I needed answers and I needed to know how to fix things. I tried MDs, psychiatrists, acupuncture (thinking something related to the nerves in my spine), faith healers, chiropractors, a hypnotist and vitamin therapy.  I was so high strung; the hypnotist couldn’t even put me in a trance back then.

Each time I would say, this has to be it!  But, instead, each time was another dead end.  "That’s your problem!  You keep reading all that junk, no wonder you’re sick!"  Sound familiar?

I even admitted myself to a psyche ward for 30 days, so I could be "under observation."  I knew deep inside that I didn’t belong there, but what was I to do?  I was reaching the end of my rope.  Feeling I was letting my wife down and not knowing if there WAS an answer to my dilemma, only made matters worse. ... A psyche ward wasn’t for someone suffering from "bad nerves!"

I wanted a pill or a shot that would clear this thing up, instantly!

I made a conscious decision that this was not how I was going to spend the rest of my life!  I was determined to get back on my feet and put all my efforts into that direction—healing myself!  Nothing else mattered; I just wanted my life back! 

I am convinced, that if it hadn’t been for the methods of true healing, I would have remained a prisoner in my own home, all my life.  Fear of fear was keeping my nerves "alive", so I was consumed by worry, worry, and more worry. We could pool several individual cases and fill tape after tape with personal stories, but it all boils down to the same thing, primarily, our minds being afraid of fear. 

Had I known the true cause of a nervous illness, a conscience or subconscious fear of what might happen, I would have recovered from my first few panic attacks; before the nervous illness set in!

It’s the amount of fear we continue to add to them that determines just how long they will last.  I had brought them all on by myself, but didn’t realize it then. 

While the methods are simple, they may or may not be easy for some.  But every sufferer can step out of his or her illness like a pair of old shoes.

Fear is nothing more than a state of mind and every human being has the ability to control his or her own thoughts.  Understanding that this is an illness on how we think, on what we think, we can recover!  Thoughts that are keeping us ill, can be changed. 

Have you been doing the wrong things long enough?  Every unwelcomed sensation can be banished and you can regain peace of mind and body, just like I did, and here is how... 

Give up the useless struggle, stop holding tensely onto yourself, trying to control your fear, trying to do something about it while subjecting yourself to constant self-analysis.  That’s what you’ve been doing for a long time, isn’t it?  Well, it's not the answer!

The only way to stop panic attacks from coming is not by hoping they won’t come or by 'fighting' against them, but by hoping they will come and by going through them, the right way!  It is then that the once dreaded panic will stop!

I encourage you to take a new and different attitude toward your illness, for you will come out a better, stronger person than you were before and also be able to help other sufferers, too.  Plus, you will be able to carry the ammunition with you, wherever you go, the cure; and never fall victim to this 2-headed monster again. 

No one else can do it for you.  Your recovery has to come from within.  Learn how to dominate your mind and begin the recovery process!

I recovered from my nervous illness, even from the agoraphobia, without medication... I have heard of doctors who tell their patients they will have to live with this condition and be on medication for the rest of their lives-not so! 

 It is often hard for others to understand the hardships and traumas that can be associated with this illness.