Get the Support You Need

Learn from thousands of users who have made their way through our courses. Need help getting started? Watch this short video.

today's top discussions:

logo

Addiction

Lynn123

2024-03-27 3:02 PM

Managing Drinking Community

logo

New Year's Resolutions

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-03-25 2:47 AM

Managing Drinking Community

logo

Water

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-03-17 5:24 PM

Healthy Weight Community

logo

What motivates you?

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-03-10 10:30 PM

Quit Smoking Community

This Month’s Leaders:

Most Supportive

DM555 3 3

Browse through 411.742 posts in 47.053 threads.

160,431 Members

Please welcome our newest members: Jgorilla, anna13, CCaballero, JJAY EVANGEL, VKATE DARLENE

Why do I do this to myself?!?


8 years ago 0 111 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Thank you to both of you for a better perspective.
8 years ago 0 2508 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Catherine, you did good, you got out there and that's what really matters. It's all part of the process and you'll do even better next time..Be proud and reward yourself for your successes with this exposure. It doesn't have to come out perfect each and every time and is to be expected because life does throw some curves balls at us along the way on our individual journeys..By the way noise really gets to me too....Red:)
8 years ago 0 6252 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Catherine, you are putting the blame in the wrong place. Kiddo got tired and became the focus which transferred to the noise. Okay those were not part of the original plan. Coping is what you did even if it meant a pill and a taxi this time and might next time also. Accept that. You did what you could and most of it was good. It is a set back, not a failure. Imagine if you tried to do it with the flu. That would not be your fault either. Just something unplanned that happened. 

Davit
8 years ago 0 111 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I went out today with my mom and my kiddo. We took the bus (I have a fear of taking the bus) and all went well. We got off downtown and went to the public library to get some books. All went well. Then the kiddo was hungry and wanted something with fries, so we headed to the restaurant. But he was tired of walking and his feet hurt. And we had forgotten the stroller… So we got him to walk to the restaurant slowly and manage to get to there restaurant. Until then, I felt so good! I felt brave and strong and very proud of myself. 

Then we sat down in the restaurant and ordered our food. But the restaurant felt noisy and I quickly began to panic. I had to take a clonazepam so I didn't have a full-blown panic attack. I was no fun for my mom at lunch because I was quiet and just trying to stay calm. Then we decided to take the taxi home so the baby wouldn't have to walk. 

I was supposed to go by bus, do the library, do the restaurant, come back by bus and all that without extra anxiety meds… 

Now, instead of feeling proud of myself, I feel like a lame failure. I had to resort to pills and cabs... 

Reading this thread: