I want to say welcome to the group and good luck with your Dr. visit tomorrow. It sounds like you are on the right track using the 10 question list. I use this list all the time and have found it to be a invaluable tool for me. Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly several times also helps me to relax. Also a diversion of some kind is helpful. Looking at a magazine, doodling on a piece of paper anything to relax your mind for a little while helps me also. Just think about how good you are going to feel about yourself after you go to your Doctors appointment. Going through with this exposure will make going to the Dr. easier the next time you have to go. Let us know how it goes. I will be rooting for you today and tomorrow.
I'm glad to hear that you are using the 10 questions to challenge your negative thoughts about the doctor visit. Best of luck with your appointment tomorrow, continue to read through the forums. We will be thinking of you tomorrow, check in to let us know how it goes.
Well the big day ...docotor's visit...is tomorrow...My anticipatory anxiety is high today...Everytime it comes in my mind I have been trying to ask the 10 questions and write the answers down. Its not easy to calm down ...the negative thoughts seem overwhelming. I want to go...but I'm scared ..its been along time...the "what ifs" are horrible. But, even though the thought of just not going is there ...(I have tried this before..made appt's then cancelled) I'm pretty sure I'm going no matter what, because when I've chickened out before I felt immediate relief ...short-lived....followed by even more anxiety. So wish me luck...and thank-you so much for this forum. I have been reading a lot of the posts, they are very informative and enlightening.
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those are similar ways I tackle my negative thinking too. I try to tell myself that what I feel is just what I feel and not the truth. It's my negative side of my mind that is just blabbering. The way I usually calm myself at the docs. is by telling myself that these people are professionals and they know what to do in whatever negative scenario I envision. Best wishes.
Nice to meet you! You've come to the right place...I'm fairly new too but have made dear friends here and have always gotten wonderful advice. Good Luck
I have never heard of any one passing out from a panic attack. Going blank for a bit or losing time, but never passing out. It just doesn't Happen. And you would have to be very old with a bad heart to die.
Intentionally bringing on panic is a final stage of the cure and it is so you can see if you have the coping skills firmly in place. Actually by the time you finish the program these skills should be so firmly in place that purposely causing panic is almost impossible to do.
Thanks to everyone for their replies..I came by this site the other day by googling anxiety cures...started reading it and thought it made sense ....I'm sick of avoiding things and running from my thoughts.Writing down my negative thoughts already has opened my eyes to how much I "fret" over things without trying to look on the positive side..or at least that its not going to be "that bad". The doctor's visit next week...thinking negative thoughts.....now I try to replace them with reality thoughts..its just a dr.s visit....It's not going to kill me...etc...When I read that some people actually do things to make them feel similar to having a panic attack it hit me that although I've had hundreds of them I havent passed out and I'm still alive so how bad are they? At least there's not an elevator at her office! haha. One thing at a time.
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