Beckybecks
04-07-16, 20:23
I have been on this forum almost all day! I tell myself it's not good for me but I find it quite therapeutic.
I'm having a really extreme flare-up of my IBS. I've suffered from this since I was a child. Why then every time it happens does it feel like it's the absolute worst this time around?
My health anxiety has kicked in and my mind is imagining the worst, of course.
I catch myself visualising being collected in an ambulance and being hospitalized (my biggest nightmare).
I can't stop focusing on the pain and fearing that it'll get worse.
And that of course does make it worse.
I seem to have forgotten everything I was taught in CBT.
How can I have gone from someone who felt so in control of my condition, dishing out advice to others , to a quivering, tearful wreck? In one day!
I'm having a really extreme flare-up of my IBS. I've suffered from this since I was a child. Why then every time it happens does it feel like it's the absolute worst this time around?
My health anxiety has kicked in and my mind is imagining the worst, of course.
I catch myself visualising being collected in an ambulance and being hospitalized (my biggest nightmare).
I can't stop focusing on the pain and fearing that it'll get worse.
And that of course does make it worse.
I seem to have forgotten everything I was taught in CBT.
How can I have gone from someone who felt so in control of my condition, dishing out advice to others , to a quivering, tearful wreck? In one day!