Haybee
02-03-12, 00:06
i have my first cbt session tomorrow. this is the first of any kind of treatment i have had for my anxiety, not on any meds or anything either. never done any counselling or anything like this before and the thought of talking about myself to someone makes me cringe a bit. embarassingly, when i've had to talk to a doc about it (just to get referred) i found myself getting tearful even though i dont think i was that upset at the time.
i'm feeling a bit of a fraud about the whole thing now, when i was first getting referred i'd had a couple of panic attacks and it really felt like my anx was escalating very quickly. but i've been ok for a couple of weeks. i know some people on here are suffering pretty much constantly with their anx and i kind of feel like i'm wasting the docs time when there are people suffering like this. but then, the past couple of nights i have experienced physical symptoms i'm assuming are from anx (shooting pains all over), and didnt get to sleep til 5am, so it is obviously still a problem for me. i'm worried the cbt doc is going to ask me when my anx happens and i wont know what to say- i honestly have no idea what triggers it, or why these physical symptoms happen out of nowhere. even when i had my panic attacks i thought i had felt fine beforehand. ah i'm just rambling now lol.
so does anyone know what kind of thing i can expect in a first appointment..? i'm not absolutely dreading it, but quite nervous about it now.
i'm feeling a bit of a fraud about the whole thing now, when i was first getting referred i'd had a couple of panic attacks and it really felt like my anx was escalating very quickly. but i've been ok for a couple of weeks. i know some people on here are suffering pretty much constantly with their anx and i kind of feel like i'm wasting the docs time when there are people suffering like this. but then, the past couple of nights i have experienced physical symptoms i'm assuming are from anx (shooting pains all over), and didnt get to sleep til 5am, so it is obviously still a problem for me. i'm worried the cbt doc is going to ask me when my anx happens and i wont know what to say- i honestly have no idea what triggers it, or why these physical symptoms happen out of nowhere. even when i had my panic attacks i thought i had felt fine beforehand. ah i'm just rambling now lol.
so does anyone know what kind of thing i can expect in a first appointment..? i'm not absolutely dreading it, but quite nervous about it now.