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I will comment after every entry just kidding!!! :o) Today I did something as well that seemed so “normal” but for me was so hard. I have only been in therapy for 4 weeks and today I had to do an exposure exercise and had to go to a store across town (not a “safe” one close to my house). Just the thought was enough anxiety to send me “over the edge.” Well I lived through it haha…but the clutter and the people were almost too much to handle. I had to stay in the front of the store after about 15 minutes of roaming to wait for my Mom to finish shopping because I couldn’t do it anymore….and like you said I look at the positive of the fact that I even was able to drive across town and actually go in :o)~
You’re making great progress. It all takes time. I don’t have typical anxiety when I’m outside doing things unless I’m filled with health anxiety. Then I want to quickly leave wherever I am and get back home. I don’t know why I do this or what I think it will help but it’s what happens. I was in a theatre once and was sure than I was dying with some horrible disease and all of a sudden I wanted to bolt out of there and go home. I had taken my mother there so of course I couldn’t do that but I found it impossible to concentrate for the rest of the movie. It sucks having this illness.
Hi I just wanted to say today I have read more of your blog and I am feeling better today. A book I ordered from Amazon arrived yesterday, it is called Coping with health anxiety and is a very easy to read workbook with simple steps to challenge fears and make small changes in thought patterns. I filled some of it out yesterday, in secret, as I have a 14 year old daughter and I try to hide my health fears from her incase she develops the same as me ( a source of more anxiety) The most interesting thing I read was that reasurrance only keeps the health anxiety going and I must learn to not seek reassurance all the time. I have a very long way to go but feel a little more in control today and managing to keep myself busy. I had not considered before that I may have a little agrophobia, but over the last year I have found myself getting extremely anxious in supermarkets and have started avoiding them. My husband has been very supportive and likes food shopping so he is okay with me waiting in the car. I mentioned this to the psychologist I have been seeing and she said it is not uncommon, but at the moment I just seem to be someone who manages to keep a facade of coping with life, when underneath I am a scared, lonely little child who seems to have so, so many tears and sadness that never seem to leave me. I have felt this since I was ten years old. It is like I am crying inside all the time. It is so helpful to know you understand how we want to be so strong and cope with everything and are not lazy and selfish. I have faced so much rejection and judgement because I suffer from anxiety and depression and felt ashamed of who i was. Now I have accepted that this is who I am and I will not be ashamed anymore. I am going to spend the next week working on my tasks to control my health anxiety and will come back and read more of your blog and pass on anything that may be helpful to others.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I will comment after every entry just kidding!!! :o) Today I did something as well that seemed so “normal” but for me was so hard. I have only been in therapy for 4 weeks and today I had to do an exposure exercise and had to go to a store across town (not a “safe” one close to my house). Just the thought was enough anxiety to send me “over the edge.” Well I lived through it haha…but the clutter and the people were almost too much to handle. I had to stay in the front of the store after about 15 minutes of roaming to wait for my Mom to finish shopping because I couldn’t do it anymore….and like you said I look at the positive of the fact that I even was able to drive across town and actually go in :o)~
September 8th, 2009 at 6:51 am
You’re making great progress. It all takes time. I don’t have typical anxiety when I’m outside doing things unless I’m filled with health anxiety. Then I want to quickly leave wherever I am and get back home. I don’t know why I do this or what I think it will help but it’s what happens. I was in a theatre once and was sure than I was dying with some horrible disease and all of a sudden I wanted to bolt out of there and go home. I had taken my mother there so of course I couldn’t do that but I found it impossible to concentrate for the rest of the movie. It sucks having this illness.
October 25th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Hi I just wanted to say today I have read more of your blog and I am feeling better today. A book I ordered from Amazon arrived yesterday, it is called Coping with health anxiety and is a very easy to read workbook with simple steps to challenge fears and make small changes in thought patterns. I filled some of it out yesterday, in secret, as I have a 14 year old daughter and I try to hide my health fears from her incase she develops the same as me ( a source of more anxiety) The most interesting thing I read was that reasurrance only keeps the health anxiety going and I must learn to not seek reassurance all the time. I have a very long way to go but feel a little more in control today and managing to keep myself busy. I had not considered before that I may have a little agrophobia, but over the last year I have found myself getting extremely anxious in supermarkets and have started avoiding them. My husband has been very supportive and likes food shopping so he is okay with me waiting in the car. I mentioned this to the psychologist I have been seeing and she said it is not uncommon, but at the moment I just seem to be someone who manages to keep a facade of coping with life, when underneath I am a scared, lonely little child who seems to have so, so many tears and sadness that never seem to leave me. I have felt this since I was ten years old. It is like I am crying inside all the time. It is so helpful to know you understand how we want to be so strong and cope with everything and are not lazy and selfish. I have faced so much rejection and judgement because I suffer from anxiety and depression and felt ashamed of who i was. Now I have accepted that this is who I am and I will not be ashamed anymore. I am going to spend the next week working on my tasks to control my health anxiety and will come back and read more of your blog and pass on anything that may be helpful to others.
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