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Hi Lil_bit, Good for you! You did it! And you made through some other unexpected challenges! Let these successes continue to guide you as you work on achieving bigger goals. Casey ______________________________ The Panic Center Support Team
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Wow! congratulations on all your sucesses you must be very happy with yourself. Gratz! You go! -Diva
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Well, I did it. Took the resume to the dry cleaners, and I even went to the library so I could get the instruction booklet to do my taxes. Everything was going good, until I decided to go back over by the library to check on another job that I applied for awhile back. I was in my moms car (a beat up little ford tempo, that's on it's last leg), and it was running funny the whole time I was out. I didn't let that get to me, I knew if need be I could call my grandfather to come get me if the car died. A woman almost drove into me at a four way stop, we got into an argument about it, and I didn't let that get to me...even though it was her fault. But I did get panicky when I was on a major road and the transmission stuck...I couldn't accelerate. *YIKES* So I pulled into a driveway for some sort of assisted living home, put the car in park and took some breaths. After about five minutes I felt a bit calmer (my emotions were all over the place from just being out of the house alone, lol) put the car in drive and prayed that it would make the quarter mile journey home. As I'm sure you've guessed, I made it, lol! But I don't think I'm going to be driving my moms car around, she keeps saying this is it's last winter, so I guess I'll just drive the stepdads car till then. I'm not too fond of his car either...the alarm goes off when you try to start it if you don't hit the unlock key on the remote, stand on your head, spin three times to the west on your left foot, and then say the alphabet backwards...*humph* I wish I had "my" truck but the ex is buying it back from me (that was the deal when I took over the payments so "we" could keep the truck), but I know that I'll be getting a nice chunk of money so I can go and buy my own. Cars...when will they learn? lol
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So I've been getting out of the house a little more often recently. Last Wednesday, I went with my grandmother and her friend to a meeting for the art guild that they belong to, and yesterday I went to the gas station and drove around a little by myself. I felt really good each time I got home, but here's my problem. I noticed a help wanted sign at the dry cleaners next to the gas station, both of which are litterally right around the corner. I'd really like to get back to working, but my fear is that I'll get the job and then shoot myself in the foot by having a panic attack and having to quit or something. I'm at the part of the program about doing exposure work, and for the life of me can't come up with a plan to get me in the door of that place to put an application in. You see, I could go there and go in and just hang out for a minute or two, but then that would look strange to the people that work there and I definately don't want that. I could go in and just hand them my resume, but then I'd be so worried about an interview. I told myself yesterday that I would go today and apply, and felt really goo about it, but so far I can't get myself to go. I know later I'm going to go for another drive around the neighborhood, and I'm going to take my resume, just incase I get the inkling to go in there and drop it off. I've been trying to use visualization to calm myself about working again, and thinking about being at work, I don't get very anxious. But I get very anxious thinking about going in to drop off the resume or having an interview. It's driving me a little crazy because I'd just like to get back to work, and with this place being right around the corner it would be a good place to start, you know, get used to being out of the house alone, but I wouldn't be too far away. Grr...what to do, what to do...

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