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11-05-14, 15:48
Hi everyone,
Some practical tips/ experience would be really appreciated...I have awful HA which I've had two lots of high dose sertraline and two rounds of CBT for. My therapist has suggested that long term psychodynamic therapy would now be most appropriate. I have my ups and downs but I'm managing my own HA ok at the moment despite the fact that I had to terminate a pregnancy at 21weeks in January because the baby had fatal abnormalities.
So that's the context...
I'm noticing that my anxiety over my sons health (he's almost 2) is taking over everything recently. Every time he has had ANYTHING for the past 6 months I've taken him to hospital. And I mean ANYTHING, coughs, colds, peeing too much pooing too little...you name it. I've barely been at work this year as although I only took a few days off after we lost the baby, if my son has had anything, even if we have alternative childcare, I get so stressed I can't go to the office. I cried almost all day yesterday because he's got a cough and tried to imagine what I'd do if he died. Then I wondered how I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without him.
So not normal and not rational. It's manageable in the short term but I can't do this forever, I won't have a job or a life and my son will only remember seeing the inside of GP surgeries and hospitals from his childhood.
So what do I do? Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Advice appreciated xxx
Some practical tips/ experience would be really appreciated...I have awful HA which I've had two lots of high dose sertraline and two rounds of CBT for. My therapist has suggested that long term psychodynamic therapy would now be most appropriate. I have my ups and downs but I'm managing my own HA ok at the moment despite the fact that I had to terminate a pregnancy at 21weeks in January because the baby had fatal abnormalities.
So that's the context...
I'm noticing that my anxiety over my sons health (he's almost 2) is taking over everything recently. Every time he has had ANYTHING for the past 6 months I've taken him to hospital. And I mean ANYTHING, coughs, colds, peeing too much pooing too little...you name it. I've barely been at work this year as although I only took a few days off after we lost the baby, if my son has had anything, even if we have alternative childcare, I get so stressed I can't go to the office. I cried almost all day yesterday because he's got a cough and tried to imagine what I'd do if he died. Then I wondered how I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without him.
So not normal and not rational. It's manageable in the short term but I can't do this forever, I won't have a job or a life and my son will only remember seeing the inside of GP surgeries and hospitals from his childhood.
So what do I do? Has anyone experienced anything similar?
Advice appreciated xxx