I suffer anxiety/agoraphobia. Mindfulness will not help you at all if you're severely ill, only once you start to make a recovery. So I suggest using mindfulness to try and mitigate bad episodes of stress. Sometimes a pill is the only thing that can kickstart your recovery. Be open minded to all avenues of treatment. The NHS has extremely limited resources, and have huge waiting times. It's boring but it's true, exercise and eating properly along with relaxation techniques such as mindfulness do help. I also recommend The Chimp Paradox as an alternative way of handling the inner demon that is your survival instinct, which unfortunately for many people, has not evolved to cope with modern living.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Chimp-Paradox-Management-Confidence/dp/009193558X

When I was ill about 5 months ago, there was nothing that would help me apart from medication.

This is how roughly how medication works today; imagine you want a pair of shoes, you know what size you are, you go to a shoe shop and they know what size you are and they have the shoes to fit you. Using this analogy, if you go to a pharmacy, they don't know what size shoes you are and you don't know what size shoes you are, so all they can do is give you the first pair that usually do the job, if they don't work then they try another pair and so on and so forth. Gene editing breakthroughs were made in 2015, so in another 15-20 years, we should see significant changes in medication tailored to the individual. I've had my genome profiled and whilst it's interesting, there is inconclusive evidence of which genes could be responsible for my problems. Even in 2015 we're extremely limited in what we can achieve with medication. We currently live in the medication dark ages, in the future people will look back and be in almost disbelief at how primitive we are today.

If you don't suffer from mental health issues then it's almost impossible to imagine what they're like. Imagine you had flu, proper flu that knocked you on your back for a couple weeks at a time, now imagine this as mental pain, this is currently how I feel most days, sometimes I feel like I should die and sometimes I feel full of hope and sometimes I feel normal. You can't snap out of it, you can wish it away or will it away, the more you try the more powerful the anxiety becomes. You literally have to accept it and it lessens its power. You've heard of 'placebo' well there's 'nocebo' as well, Google it!, the power of the human mind is amazing and scary at the same time. This is the human condition. Mindfulness can help and it can help everyone regardless of whether they have mental health issues or not.

Clearly, you are one who is much happier with mindlessness.

I'm not! :stuck_out_tongue:

Mindfulness is an extremely useful tool to many sufferers of Anxiety, Stress and low mood. I personally found Mindfulness to be more useful than medication, which is a prescription charge every month. Great find op, thank you.

The Mindfulness app is a great tool for everyone who wants to become more present in their life, both beginners and more experienced practitioners. We are confident that it will enhance your day and make your life richer and more interesting!

I'm not! :stuck_out_tongue:

lmao :laughing:

"Silent meditation with bells" im curious? However, what a load of cr..

im with buzzD on this one. i meditate as i follow Buddhist teachings. Its good to check in with yourself once in a while.
Honestly dont knock it till youve tried it. if the app isnt for you there's probably a mindfulness group near you.

Thanks

This would probably go well with 8 cans of Stella