Matthew Stephens

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Main Areas: Wedding Entertainment
Best Sellers: Wedding ceremony, wedding drinks reception, wedding breakfast, wedding evening celebrations
Career Focus: Wedding Musician and DJ
Affiliation: https://matthewstephens.net/

I suffered badly with anxiety and compulsive behaviour for years and years. Doctors were little help and I felt all alone. I had no idea what was happening to me (the panic attacks started in my early 20s) and I ended up diagnosing myself. For years I thought I needed something like brain surgery to fix me until by accident one day I saw an ad on TV about anxiety and realised, 'that's me!' That's the thing that's ruling my life from morning til night!

I went to the doctors with my new info and self diagnosis and they sent me to a specialist who took me off the uneeded anti-depressants and gave me an anti anxiety pill to tide me over. Then, all I did was change my thinking. Before - I was TERRIFIED to have another panic attck. Of course, this made it worse. The fear of the fear is self perpetuating. I started to condition myself to not care if they happened - they still happened of course, but MY REACTION was different and little by little the nearly disappeared completely. I'll have little bits here and there, but my life is now completely normal, because I refuse to be scared of having one. 

I know it's not me. I know the thoughts I have while anxious aren't me. So ignore them and they go away and I go back to being normal 20 minutes later.

I now run my own business as a wedding singer and DJ and it's a busy, high pressure job at times and I never look back and wouldn't have it any other way. 

I'll be happy to answer any questions if someone needs help - I think ANYONE can beat it. How you react to the anxiety is the biggest factor determining the severity of it.

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