maya
18-09-08, 00:34
I am going back to work next week after being off for three months due to Panic and GAD.
I went for CBT for the panic and they consider it to be under control and now am dealing with the GAD.
The thing is that lately I am constantly worried...about everything and sometimes I don't even know what.
When dealing with panic I found CBT so helpful as I could identify what I was thinking during a panic attack and dissprove it.
The GAD is different. Sometimes I get so anxious when I don't have thoughts (and really I focus and there is nothing negative or incorrect going through my head), I know it spounds weird but I think its more of an unconcious association I have made with things. For example when I think about going back to work, its the picture in my mind of me there that causes me intense fear to the point that I start to space out of reality. And there is nothing bad in the image I have of myself back there --it just sets off unpleasant feelings, but No thoughts about this or that happenning at work enter my mind.
I'm starting to realize this happens in other situations as well, ie. if I'm on aroad I used to panic on I get fearful, but the thought "I paniced here before" does not enter my mind, its only later in the day that I make the assumtion that that is why.
Does anyone else have this happen and how do you break associations when you don't even know what the incorrect thinking is behind it?
And how do you get over the fear of the fear?
Thanks,
Maya
I went for CBT for the panic and they consider it to be under control and now am dealing with the GAD.
The thing is that lately I am constantly worried...about everything and sometimes I don't even know what.
When dealing with panic I found CBT so helpful as I could identify what I was thinking during a panic attack and dissprove it.
The GAD is different. Sometimes I get so anxious when I don't have thoughts (and really I focus and there is nothing negative or incorrect going through my head), I know it spounds weird but I think its more of an unconcious association I have made with things. For example when I think about going back to work, its the picture in my mind of me there that causes me intense fear to the point that I start to space out of reality. And there is nothing bad in the image I have of myself back there --it just sets off unpleasant feelings, but No thoughts about this or that happenning at work enter my mind.
I'm starting to realize this happens in other situations as well, ie. if I'm on aroad I used to panic on I get fearful, but the thought "I paniced here before" does not enter my mind, its only later in the day that I make the assumtion that that is why.
Does anyone else have this happen and how do you break associations when you don't even know what the incorrect thinking is behind it?
And how do you get over the fear of the fear?
Thanks,
Maya