death making anxiety worse

[bb22]

I started having apnic attacks last year and after CBT am able to deal with them a lot better, in fact I havent had one for about 6months. However, recently a death occured in my area of a person my age and this has got me thinking. I'm panicing about dying myself, what it would feel like, what would happen, it could happen at any second. It has also depressed me as I dont go out driving as much as i used to because driving scares me and i feel that i'm not enjoying my life as much as i should be and i'm not as strong or independent as i should be (i rely on my partner too much). Thanks for listening to my rant!

[Veronica H]

These 'what if' thoughts are difficult to ignore but I think you know having done CBT that you will need to work to break this cycle again. There is a brilliant book by Dr Claire Weekes called 'self help for your nerves', published by Thorsons. This is available from the NMP Shop. Her work can also be downloaded free to your MP3 from the shop. I can not recommend this enough as it really explains what is happening to us, and how we can recover.
Veronica