If you often suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, then at some time you've probably feared you were losing your mind.
It's a really common fear for anyone who regularly has severe panic and anxiety.
It can be a very damaging fear too, because the fear of losing your mind is about as bad a fear as you can have, and carrying that around with you just heaps more anxiety into your life.
Stopping this fear of insanity is an important step to take in order to overcome anxiety problems completely.
So let's take a quick look at a couple of ways for you to get rid of this fear.
First of all, it often helps people with this fear to learn that people who actually do go insane have no idea they're insane.
They weren't aware of it when it started happening, and they aren't aware of it after it's happened.
To someone who is genuinely insane their word seems a very normal place.
To them, it's often the rest of the world that seems crazy.
So remind yourself of this the next time you experience anxiety and panic attacks: the fact that you fear insanity is a sure sign that you're actually very sane indeed! The next thing you should use to reassure yourself is the fact that people do not go insane as a result of anxiety.
When you're highly anxious or filled with panic it's very easy to believe those feelings could one day lead to insanity.
But it's simply not the case.
Anxiety and panic attacks make you feel like you're losing your mind, but you never are.
Regularly remind yourself of the ideas I've covered in the last couple of minutes, and your fear of insanity will be much more likely to leave you alone in the future.