Dan21
29-09-06, 20:29
I’ve just finished my latest session of counselling and really feel like I’m making progress. My counsellor is great and she is being ever so supportive. She has outlined how much of a turbulent 18 months I’ve had and how I have not really acknowledged the fact that I’ve pretty much shambled from one crisis to another. She even listened to me go on about my health anxiety.
She said, after I had emptied 50 minutes worth of psychological baggage, that most of my feelings and emotions, seemed to her, to be normal for someone who had been through what I (and my family) have experienced.
But, I feel drained. Mentally and physically. For about three weeks, I’ve felt tired, achey, and generally run down. My counsellor said that it is more than likely my physical reaction to the grief of losing Dad in June, something I still feel I’m dealing with. I guess four months aint so long when it comes to grieving a parent…….
But I’m trying to stay positive and not let these latest symptoms get me down. I’ve just finished my first week at University and although I have loved every minute of it, I feel (or should say hope) that these symptoms could also be a manifestation of the stress of starting full time education after stepping away from a permanent full time job???
My head feels a bit wooley and my neck and the back of my head, ache from time to time. Could this be just stress from my current situ and finally coming face stuff through my counselling??
Any thoughts would be really welcome.
Thanks
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I want to go up to my anxiety, smile, put my arm around it and say to it caringly, 'Hey! How are you? How's your day been?'
Then, just as its about to answer me, I wanna throw a sack over it and give it a hiding within an inch of its life.
That would be nice.
She said, after I had emptied 50 minutes worth of psychological baggage, that most of my feelings and emotions, seemed to her, to be normal for someone who had been through what I (and my family) have experienced.
But, I feel drained. Mentally and physically. For about three weeks, I’ve felt tired, achey, and generally run down. My counsellor said that it is more than likely my physical reaction to the grief of losing Dad in June, something I still feel I’m dealing with. I guess four months aint so long when it comes to grieving a parent…….
But I’m trying to stay positive and not let these latest symptoms get me down. I’ve just finished my first week at University and although I have loved every minute of it, I feel (or should say hope) that these symptoms could also be a manifestation of the stress of starting full time education after stepping away from a permanent full time job???
My head feels a bit wooley and my neck and the back of my head, ache from time to time. Could this be just stress from my current situ and finally coming face stuff through my counselling??
Any thoughts would be really welcome.
Thanks
-----------------------------
I want to go up to my anxiety, smile, put my arm around it and say to it caringly, 'Hey! How are you? How's your day been?'
Then, just as its about to answer me, I wanna throw a sack over it and give it a hiding within an inch of its life.
That would be nice.