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Does the Lucinda Bassett program work?

I stumbled across a few posts referencing the Lucinda Bassett program (Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety).  Browsing the net, I was skeptical as to the validity of the reviews for the program.  I was wondering if any of you have tried the program.  For those of you who have, how would you rate the program and were the results significant and sustained?
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I take help from wherever I can get it. I was seeing a therapist along with my self-help efforts. I found this entire program--unused--at a thrift store for $6. I devoured it and it changed my life, or, rather, helped me change my life. My therapist had told me a few weeks earlier that my exbf was not driving me crazy, I was driving MYSELF crazy by the emotional responses I chose when he jerked my chain. This isn't a magic pill. It takes a lot of effort, but I conquered my emotions in about 3 months and that was almost 4 years ago and the rest of the time has been "maintenance"--kind of like losing weight. It is a lifelong struggle. A daily challenge. It would have been well worth full price, if I had it to pay. It won't work if you don't work it. It will change your life if you do.
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I had severe panic attacks and disassociation 3 years ago.  I took the plunge and spend $400+ on Lucinda's program and it was a lifesaver for me.  It absolutely worked for me.  But I took it seriously and listened to the CD's every day for 3 months on my 30 minute commute to work.  It's all about what you put into it.  If you take the program seriously and put in the work, it can absolutely CURE you.  It did me.
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This program is advertised here in Australia but universities are also running free programs.  I did one called The Mindspot Clinic (see google) it was on line and over the phone for about 8 weeks and I found it absolutely brilliant.  Well actually life changing.  
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I had the same experience with the program.  Changed my life.
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I have been doing Lucinda Bassett's program for one year.  IT works!!! I have been off of anxiety medication for almost 1 1/2 years and have not had any anxiety attacks.  I have been off and on medication for almost 30 years with many, many side effects from the medications.  After coming off one I would need to go back on something because within about 6-8 months would have a major attack.  Mine were so severe I could not do anything and basically laid in a curled up ball until medications kicked in. Even while on medication I would have mini attacks.  The program is worth it.  Anxiety meds are overall not good for your system and there is the monthly cost of buying them.  In addition they numb you.  Her program helps you to address where your anxiety is coming from.  It takes work and commitment.  If you want to be drug free and are willing to do the work you will see results.  If not stay with the drugs.  I feel that her program saved my life. I believe you can't bash the program until you have tried it.  If you are basing it on cost and an assumption you are speaking out of place.
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That is the whole concept of the program. To teach people the correct things to say to themselves when they don't know what to do. This program is well worth every penny if you can learn all about what you are going through and then change the reaction you have.
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The deal with stress and anxiety/depression is that it is a behavioral issue.  There is some heredity to this but how you respond or act to stress is behavioral.

If you are sold out to the modern medicine methods then you will stay in your anxiety.  A few posts ripped Lucinda here for wanting this to be about money.  Really?  I guess the medical field do what they do for free and not to make a profit.  

This program works, if you work it.  But that is true for any other endeavor we undertake.

If you go step by step through this program you see very shortly how it works, and works well.

Many of Lucinda's clients include top execs of many firms like Chrysler, McDonalds etc.  Those people would not go to MWC.

  
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Well, when you add up the cost of all the meds, visits to the doctor, lost work, etc, from anxiety and depression, you purchased a bargain solution.
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Lucinda states up front and right away that you will never be cured.  How you missed that?  She said, too you will get your life back and you have.  Good for you!!  You did well!  Very well indeed.
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I experienced many panic attacks and regular anxiety for several years over ten years ago. I tried many things. I want to get to the point quickly. Try these steps. These were the most helpful behavioral changes I made and they have helped me enormously. (And yes, my situation was very serious) #1  Breath. Whenever you feel that "wave" starting to build and come at you: Breath slow and deep for a count of 4 (or whatever count works with your breathing) on an in breath, then breath out for a count of 8. Do this for at least a minute or more. Then #2 speak kindly to yourself. Say things like. " It is OK. You know what this is. You will get through it. You always have. You are not having a heart attack, or going crazy."  Also, I created my own little mantra you are welcome to use....I am happy and healthy and whole and well. Repeat over and over when you feel on edge. #3 Tell everyone that matters that you may at times (not always convenient times) experience panic attacks or anxiety to the point where you may need to leave, or change what you are doing, or just seem a bit out of it. In my life, most everyone was awesome, and it opened doors for me to help others who often said " Oh my god, you do? I do too.". I found out a huge number of the people I know have experienced this at some point. #4 You are you not the "issue". Try not to own it. You do not "have" anxiety. You only experience it. Don't let it control you by making it a part of yourself. #5 Relaxation recordings really can help. I used to have a CD next to my bed for helping me go to sleep at night ( a time when stressful thoughts can take hold). There are now a lot of relaxation recordings on the internet for free. Try a few, see what works for you. #6 Let a panic attack wash over you at least once without fighting it. Just give in to it. Find out that it will not kill you or make you lose your mind. It can be scary and tiring, but the fear of it is where it's greatest power lies. Let the fear out of it like air out of a balloon.                                                                                                           I hope this helps. I have not had more than reasonable anxiety for the past 10 years, even though I have been through untold amounts of challenges. Even when my mother died, my dad had a stroke, my daughter became my son and my physical health suffered some huge setbacks, I still did not go back to that place of overwhelming anxiety.                                                   And, yes, after doctors and some meds (that only made things more complicated), I did use Lucinda's book and tapes, and visited a good therapist, and changed a lot of behaviors (like more care for and time for myself), and upped my walks, and changed my one cup of coffee to one cup of decaf. Try many things, and don't lose hope. Find a friend to talk to. Cry it out ( I had 44 years of held in tears to purge). Good luck.
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I have to disagree with you. Almost completely. I take vitamins and minerals and Vitamin D every single day. Are you saying anxiety is a deficiency? And lack of faith? Seriously?
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Lucinda Bassett sold her company to TransCap Corporation in 2008, so any attacks on how the website is designed or the pricing is unfounded.

No doubt she has some sort of deal to remain as a spokesperson for the product as it is identified with her, so she would be a key marketing aspect for it. Her own books as well are a tie-in to her past work.

Maybe you should do a little research before you criticize someone so blatantly on a public forum?
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I ordered this.  I've decided to listen to the CDs several times first...I even play them in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.  In the car, on my computer while working...over and over and over.  It is helping because my thoughts are changing and I have talked myself down from several full blown, body on fire, claustrophobic, high energy anxiety attacks.  I have even begun to plan a new company.  I have added herbal supplements to the plan that deal with mood, anxiety and menopause to see if that will help.

With no insurance for doctors and meds this is my plan of attack and it is working.  She can be self promoting, but you can also tell from her stories that she has truly suffered herself and the interviews with others really bring home the content.  

Try some Anthony Robbins on Youtube and Lilly Gills You Unstuck.  I think personally rewriting the tapes takes time and self-inflicted obsession with getting the **** on with your life is necessary.  I am so over this anxiety ********...time to move on!
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Yes Yes Yes the programs works.   I couldn't leave home at all.  I was afraid of everything.  The doctor tried to put me on pills and when I asked " will this cure me or when I am off will the anxiety come back?" he said "if you get off the meds the symptoms will continue." I told myself heck no will I have a life where I am constantly on meds.  I was lost and didn't know what to do.  Thanks GOD I could not sleep and I saw Lucinda's commercial.  Right away I ordered I thought to myself "what do I have to lose" I received the package and I followed her every work and 14 weeks later I was CURED.  Now I have a wife and a 3 year old daughter and we do things all the time.  I have never met her in person but I seriously believe she SAVED MY LIFE.  People are going to get diff results with the programs but I just wanted to post the fact that if you are at the I have nothing to lose stage then go for it with an open mind and know THAT YOU CAN DO IT !!! have faith and everything will work out ONE LOVE
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1 out of 10 people suffer from panic attacks. I had them from age 16 to 40. One night as I was suffering, I saw an infomercial about Lucinda's program and decided to spend the $300 to try the program. At first the tapes actually brought on more anxiety but over time, they were fantastic! It seriously changed my life! I have loaned out my tapes to over 50 people over the years and they have drastically helped everyone who has used them! From teens to older people, these tapes provide the means to learn how to flip the switch from panic to power!
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This thread is very old, if you have something to ask or share, it would be far better to start your own new thread, as the old ones get passed up by most readers/posters.

Thanks!

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/new_with_new_subject?forum_id=71
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In the 80s I read an advertisement for a free seminar for anyone suffering from anxiety. I arrived to find a smallish room crammed with people, all eyeing the door. It turns out that it was one of Lucinda Bassett's first forays to expand beyond her home state of Ohio (this was in Louisville).

I went through the group meetings and came to know Lucinda, but more so her sister, Donna. They invited me to co-facillitate the upcoming six-week program, which I did, under the guidance of a licensed psychologist. It's important to remember that in those days, folks with all types of anxiety disorders were rather novel in that psychology had not dealt with this issue very frequently. I had personally been to any number of doctors, looking for either a physiological or psychological cure - to no avail. At one point I was put on Prozac and on the fifth day was eyeing a butcher knife, wondering how it would feel to run it down my arm (I was NOT suicidal up to this point.) A call to my psychiatrist returned, "Oh, you're just having another panic attack. Double the dose."  I would never have survived had my husband not thrown the bottle into the garbage. A year later, a patient of the same doctor who was on Prozac for depression took an automatic rifle to his workplace and killed or injured a dozen people.

A second physican prescribed the beginning of what turned out to be a 17-year nightmare of addiction to Ativan. (The manufacturer withheld notation of its addictive quality and thus became the focus of the largest class action lawsuit in Britain's history when it surfaced.) It is harder to kick than heroin and the only help doctors could give was to substitute it with another drug, equally addictive. Thus, I had to wean myself in micro-levels or risk possible deadly consequences. I am now completely drug free. Many people do not realize that once you begin benzodiazepines or some of the other class drugs, no private insurance company will cover you. They believe the cost of attempted suicides to be prohibitive, even if you are not suicidal.  It is a very misunderstood condition.

Sadly, Donna was diagnosed with lukemia shortly thereafter and passed away, leaving her daughter, whom, Lucinda told me in a phone conversation, she was helping to raise.

There were many in the groups who were vastly helped by the program. I had been suffering from panic attacks already for 20 years at that point. While the program definitely helped, it actually was being undermined by an abusive marriage I could not leave at that time - thus the program's efficacy was not fairly tested.  Lucinda developed her program based on her own formula for recovery - and I don't believe she ever represents anything to the contrary.

There have been thousands of people helped by the program, but it takes dedication and a desire to get better. Many of the comments I'm reading here indicate that these folks have a negative attitude and therefore likely could not benefit from its concepts. I do chide them by saying that it isn't fair to condemn something that works for so many, simply because it does not work for you.

The expense of Lucinda's program I believe is in part due to two things:  1) the original program was on cassette tape - about 20 cassettes - and the mere packaging was expensive. 2) As the program grew beyond what she could produce privately, she put fulfillment into the hands of a professional company and they likely added a healthy commission for themselves. They are professional marketers and their technique is hard sell and reluctance to take returns. This is typical - I just went through the same arrangement with the folks at Keronique.

Naturally many of the people who suffer from severe anxiety are unable to work and this cost is considerable for them. About four years ago I ordered the program again on DVD and have converted them to my iTunes so they can travel with me. I'm revisiting them now and find them exceedingly informative - her techniques having been refined by decades of successful clients. I can only underscore "decades" - and point out that obviously she is helping people or she would not have survived this long.

If you are sincere about introspection and the desire to change your attitude so that anxiety does not underscore your every thought - then this program will work for you.  If it works, then it is well, well worth the cost. What is getting your life back worth?
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It's a scam and the program doesn't work. She has a BS return policy and scam artists working for her. Don't buy it...shes getting rich by preying on the weak.
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Of course it's a money thing, so is a psychiatrist and medicine and the car you drive. Don't let that dissuade you, it's great honest, factual information. Information, once applied is a powerful tool against anxiety. It's a good system of recovery and works if you put in the work as others have said.
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Roger, I don't know if you will receive this message but I just saw your post and want you to know that you are in my prayers!  It is 2013 now (5 years since your post) but I hope you are well and learning how to cope with this dreaded depression!  Peace be with you!  - Jo
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JSG....RIGHT ON!!! I so appreciate your comments regarding Lucinda Bassett. I'm not just saying that because I'm in the "helping" industry working with individuals, but because what you said regarding an individuals healing, change & transformation is done by THEIR own mind. I am simply the facilitator of their wonderful tool.....their mind.
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I used it and it did work, wonderfuly. the dr. only wanted to put me on meds, the specialest said I would only get worse if I didnt take the meds. guess what i am lovin life and doing great. my mom used it as well and guess what, it works! So what if she is making money from it????? she found a need and filled it, you do the math. I applaud her and wish her well. Anxiety is a theif and will rob you of your life, as well as depression. what works for some doesnt for others..I have learned to relax, breathe, enjoy. I take walks, i get busy. i dont over analize everything. do I still have anxiety, of courses we all do. But the difference is I have learned how to deal with it and with that knowledge comes power to over come. I also take vitimins, but that didnt come about till after i had gone through her course. Is it worth the money? Every penny. I would pay double for it because it works and gave me hope. that was over 10 years ago and my life is better now then it was then by a long shot!!
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I never saw one of her commercials, but I heard her speaking once on the radio. I can say, she saved my life. I had severe anxiety , and after years of not being able to deal with it, only it getting worse, I developed depression. I went to a specialest who instead of finding out if there was a root cause wanted to throw a bunch of meds at me. I refused. Then one day while with my family ( whom I tried to hide as much as possible from the problem ) I heard her 1 mn. speach and memerized the phone number. I odrered the system the very next day and that was over 10 years ago. i have learned to deal with my anxiety, my depression is gone, Relaxation learning triggers and how to deal with the problems. Maybe it doesnt help for everyone, but for everyone that it does help we are blessed and happy to share the news. God Bless lucinda basset!
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I have been suffering from severe Anxiety and Depression since 2 years ago. I used zoloft. It was after severe emotional stress that I had. I could not work, sleep, even sit still on a chair. I had racing thoughts and I wanted to run. Now, I am much better. I think the things which helped me were first the medication and then time. Time will heal it. The psychiatrist and psychologist were not helpful in my opinion. They were just good because they could provide medical certificates which I could get off from my work for a couple of months. Being away from work and spending my time with my loved ones was very helpful. I think for a person with anxiety, it will be difficult to change his/her mind. Because, the brain is stopped from working. The only thing that can help is just to provide a place in which he/she feels safe and calm. The worst thing about the depression and anxiety is that the person gets pessimistic about everyone/everything so having someone which you can completely trust and rely on is like a miracle. That is my own experience which worked for me well.
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Years ago when I was at the end of my rope (before Paxil) I saw her info mercial and was amazed how she used audio and visual elements that were designed to enhance the symptoms of anyone watching.  She used repetitive music/sounds and strange background noises knowing FULL WELLthat people suffering from  extreme anxiety and depression had episodes that were triggered by such media.
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