"I was not able to breathe I felt very uncomfortable. I wasn't feeling well because my heart was going very fast and then that night it just went extremely fast where it palpitated and I couldn't breathe. I said OK, I'm going to the ER. They couldn't find anything wrong, and I was told it was anxiety.
My anxiety got so bad that I became agoraphobic. I actually became housebound for about 6-months or so. It felt like I lost all of my independence, I had to count on other people to do things for me. I felt I was missing things; everything was passing me by - the world was passing me by.
My kids, I couldn't do things with them. "Mom let's go here; do you want to go to the mall?" Normal things, "Do you want to go to lunch?" I wouldn't want to and I gave excuses. And that made me angry and sad. But I couldn't even control it.
So we went from medication to medication and my doctor eventually just said, "I don't what else I can do but what we're doing." And that really floored me. I was angry because I couldn't help me and then he couldn't help me. Where was I to go?
When I saw the infomercial, I was at my lowest, low. I looked at it and I saw me. I have totally changed my life with this program. Actually, I've better it even from when before I actually had anxiety. Without the program, I probably would still be in my house, trying to find a way to come off the medications."
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Tammy Barlekamp
"I lived in my own world. I did my job but I felt very insecure about everything I did.
The bodily symptoms were the worse. It was very painful, the chest pain, the light-headedness, dizziness - nauseous constantly, couldn't eat, at times just immobilized.
Going through nursing school I had terrible panic, every class. My biggest limitation was speaking in front of people. If I would hear the word presentation or speech - my blood ran cold.
Since the program, life has opened up for me. I took skiing lessons with the whole family, that's probably something I wouldn't have tried before. I'm learning piano with my children. I just feel I'm out there and I'm healthy and I have a chance.
One of the best things about the program was that I found people who were like me and I didn't feel so alone."
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Vicki Dinovo
"I woke up one morning and out of the blue it was like I had an uninvited guest come in - it took over my mind, it took over my body and it took over my soul. And I noticed that I would panic the minute I got out of bed for no reason at all. And then it progressively got worse and I could not even open the door to my house to go out to my mailbox to get the mail.
With the light-headedness and dizziness I thought OK - I've got a brain tumor. And with the palpitations of the heart and the breathing problem I thought I'm having a heart attack. Well I didn't, but at the time it's so scary you just don't want to have to face that again.
I didn't really want to talk on the phone I didn't want to have any visitors. I even shied away from my grandkids because I was afraid that I would have a anxiety attack and they would see me and heaven knows I didn't want them to see their Nana in that position. I felt bad for my husband because I felt like I was cheating him out of the good times that we used to have. Plus being with the grandchildren and all of our friends. After trying so many medications I thought this is it - I felt worse taking the medicines than I did putting up with panic if you can believe that.
My daughter who is a diabetic educator at our local hospital found this program through one of her co-workers. My daughters have seen a really big difference in me. I do more things with them, I'm there and they can just come in and be themselves. They don't have to worry about - "Am I going to upset mom? Is she going to have a anxiety attack?" I went to Columbus with my oldest daughter to take one of my grandsons to an allergist. In the car on the way home she said probably one of the nicest things about me to her son. She said, Jonathon, we finally got Nana back. And to me I thought - that's all that needed to be said. I've licked it.
I wouldn't trade this program for anything in the world. Not a million dollars, it was worth so much. You can't put a price on your life. And you can't put a price on this program."
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Marcel Arrua
"I would just live with this anxiety, every second of my life. There was no relief whatsoever.
It got to the point that it was so bad that I was not able to take care of myself. I wasn't able to go to work anymore, I couldn't even walk out the front door. I didn't even know who I was anymore; I didn't know what I liked. The person I knew was gone.
The anxiety would come and go throughout my life until I was about 21-years old. And that's when all the anxiety attacks started coming and they never stopped. I went to three doctors and they put me on medication. I knew that the medication, the drugs, were not the answer. I couldn't even function. I just wanted to lie in bed. I couldn't think, I was just totally drugged out of my mind. And he wanted to intensify the dosage and I told him no, this is not right.
Before I ordered the program I was so depressed I said God please just take me because I can't live like this anymore. This is not life; this is no way to live. Then I got the ATTACKING ANXIETY program. It changed my life completely. I learned how to be strong. I learned all these skills to take care of myself and not let anything get me down and depressed like I was."
Sharon Koperwas
