"I wish that anxiety sufferers could come to me for 5 minutes so I can show them the evidence of what does and doesn't work. When I hear about people having CBT, hypnosis and medications or doing 'self help' programs that claim a lot, but just don't work, it reminds me of when I was anxious, how desperate I was and how much life and money I wasted pursuing these 'so called' cures. I know what we do works every time and it's a frustration to me that I can't show everyone."

"My name is Charles Linden. I am 55 years old and have spent a large proportion of my adult life fighting acute anxiety, panic attacks, OCD and agoraphobia... BUT NOT ANY MORE!

Apart from providing support and counselling to anxiety sufferers through 'The Linden Method', I also work in private practice counselling people with anxiety disorders through The Linden Centre. My 'Method' took seven years to develop and is now, not only, becoming recognised as THE drug free solution to anxiety disorders by the Government Health Organization, but is also receiving referrals from psychologists, doctors, psychiatrists, health authorities, insurance companies and other organisations from around the world.

I am also a regular contributor to printed publications such as Natural Health, Women, Women's Own, Pick Me Up, About.com, Top Santé, OK magazine and anxiety disorder websites. I contribute to BBC radio and I am also chairman of the International Association of Anxiety Management. I have also recently shot my own TV series which airs in October

I was diagnosed, about 24 years ago, as having severe anxiety, panic attacks and associated phobias. The doctor made this diagnosis on the strength of the symptoms I experienced at that time. I had experienced anxiety with OCD between the ages of 12 and 14 and was generally an anxious child but learned to live with the anxious feelings and thoughts, many of which I had experienced from a very young age.

After an anxiety 'breakdown' at the age of 23, my doctor prescribed antidepressants and sedatives and then kept re-prescribing them without question, however, they just made me feel progressively more ill and produced dramatic side effects a then, when I tried to stop them, horrific withdrawal.

My life was in ruin, at 24 years of age I thought my life was about to end, fear consumed me and worse of all, no one understood how I was feeling, sympathised or helped me in any way.

Over the course of my condition, I visited doctors, psychologists, immunologists, hypnotherapists and hoards of alternative therapists, to name but a few; I am sure you have been down similar paths, searching for solutions, desperate for answers. Some therapies proved useful, if only because they were pleasant or relaxing, but nothing offered the hope of a cure. My doctors were at a loss, they prescribed drugs, but were they helping? No, they just masked the symptoms and produced others. It all became so confusing, I didn't know what to do next, I was desperate, but, this continued for five years!

I suffered from anxiety for many uncomfortable, scary and lonely years before I found the answers I needed and became well again.

I wanted to be well, but no one offered any hope of a recovery. I decided that there had to be a cure and I had also met many recovered sufferers, although none of them were certain what they had done to recover. I decided to set about finding out what all those recovered anxiety sufferers had done to return to normal.

Over time and questioning hundreds of people, I discovered exactly what they had all been doing when they experienced a recovery and although they didn't know what they had done, I was able to gather data which showed me clearly what it was!

From this data, I compiled a set of principals which I applied to my life with immediate and dramatic results; I then condensed these principals and handed it to hundreds of fellow sufferers who immediately started to experience the same level of relief. These principals are the core of The Linden Method and now they have been used by tens of thousands of sufferers around the world.

After my recovery, I bumped into my psychologist in town and he told me that he was shocked to see me out of my house and that he had honestly believed that I would never be well again. He also said that he had hardly recognised me as I looked so healthy and happy. I told him what I had done to achieve the dramatic change and he raised his eyebrows in amazement. My psychologist's reaction shocked me at the time, but after thinking over what he said, I don't think I ever expected to be well again either. I was also shocked at his lack of faith in, not only, his own abilities but at his complete amazement that recovery was possible at all. I then remembered that during my sessions, he used to refer to his treatment as anxiety management and it became clear that his sessions had been about making me comfortable rather than curing me.

Don't ever think you are alone with this condition, you are not, there are millions of anxiety sufferers in the UK alone. I have the greatest of sympathy with your situation and assure you that I know how you feel and desperately want to help you. We have the solution you seek, which I sometimes refer to as the 'Holy Grail'. Life isn't life when you suffer with anxiety, existence is not living... it is compromising on what you could and will have; a full, happy and healthy lifestyle.

When I talk about how I used to be, it is almost as if I am talking about a different person, as if it was all just a horrific blurred dream, but my god was it real; when I see photographs of myself back then, it brings it all into focus.

It took my wife and family a long time to convince me that what I did to get better was worth sharing with others and I guess I didn't believe it at first, but I now feel that the final step in my recovery came with the good feelings I got when the people I helped to recover thanked me.

During the years that I suffered with anxiety, I discovered a lot about myself and about other peoplewith anxiety disorders. The one striking similarity between sufferers, contrary to what they might believe, is that they have strength that none sufferers just don't have. Recovered sufferers also discover a heightened level of awareness which makes them feel like a veil has been lifted and their lives are suddenly clearer than ever before.

If you decide to use my Method, promise me one thing... that you will send me your comments so that I can use them to show others that there really is a cure for anxiety.

The Linden Method has now helped people from all over the world; it boasts proven results better than any other anxiety, panic attacks, OCD or phobias therapy 96.7% amongst complying clients. It is my hope to make The Linden Method available to every sufferer and it is to this end, that I continue my research and development.

Being anxiety free is already pre-programmed into you, all we do, is show you how to flick the anxiety switch to OFF."

Charles