Red
I wonder if an anxiety condition about a physical aliment such as IBS or ulcerative colitis just gets better or if the reduction in your anxiety made it better. I guess the old saying sound mind sound body applies here. Ever since I stopped taking the medication from the doctor and decided that I am no longer going to take these pills and be a victim I have been feeling better about myself. I think a sense of self control and self help about my problems instead of covering them with pills gives me an entirely different attitude toward life. Although I am I no way cured I am doing the best thing I can do for myself which is to change my attitude. I only wish I did not wait so long to do it because I have had a long time to develop a negative thinking pattern.
Dizzy
Davit
I have had several physical things wrong with me I in fact lost all my hearing in both ears and then regained most of the right ear hearing back. I think this was the genesis of my total inability to cope with anxiety. As you can imagine when I lost my hearing in my left ear and had vertigo for year the doctors mad I diagnoses of elimination. By that they checked for brain tumours and everything else. I have read about what they diagnosed me with and it a common condition to temporally get vertigo and very seldom do people lose their hearing. But as unlikely as it was it happened to me twice losing all hearing for a temporary time. They cannot say why it happened nor can they say that it will never happen again. So I can’t determine the likelihood of it happening the odds are very small for it to happen to both ears but I managed to beat the odds. But believe it or not I have a different attitude towards the possibility I, if it happens again and I lose all my hearing my life is not over it is just changed. Thanks for the advice about finances I have indeed prepared for the worst but I am now hopping for something better than just living of a disability pension.
Dizzy
Sunny
I was wondering if continuing to say the positive or alternative thought worked for you. Or possible by continuing to change the negative thought I may see a thought that appeals to me then more than my first challenge. What I guess I am asking is the first alternative thought produced by my challenge the one and only and best alternative thought or could another challenge with more introspection give me a better outcome. Perhaps I can’t believe my alternative thought because I have not got to the root of it. I also agree with you I don’t know your age but I have had negative thoughts and anxiety since I can remember and a life time of maladaptive thinking is a hard thing to change.
Dizzy
Jason
I have read session 3 a couple of times I have identified and labelled the negative thought that I am having most catastrophizing and black and white thinking. I also know that these negative thought are a result of an overactive imagination always imagining the worst. I have determined what would have to happen for the worst possible outcome to happen. And putting the events that would have to happen together as they would have to be for the worst thing to happen I have concluded that it would be extremely unlikely that all these events could happen. So the alternative thought is it’s very remotely possible but highly unlikely. Please tell me what specifically more I should get from session 3. Is the fact that I can’t stop thinking about the unlikely outcome the source of your suggestion about rereading it? I have proved that the worst event is unlikely to happen do I have to consider how bad it would be to get to the other side? Even though it is unlikely to happen I have planned for the possibility if it did I have made I decision and have minimized the effect it could have on me if it did happen. Therefore I have a sense of control over the future event and a sense of control leaves me with a sense of security and not a victim. Is this over analyzing things too much any further response would be appreciated.
Dizzy
I guess I made it unclear as to my problem. Although I challenge my thoughts I have I hard time in believing the alternative thought that i have generated.
