leesome
16-12-09, 01:42
Hi I'm new here but so happy I have found this place.
I have suffered for a couple of decades with one thing or another and am diagnosed with OCD.
I am curently undergoing CBT but I am not improving, quite the opposite.
The CBT has removed any classic OCD, if there is such a thing, and left me with the full brutal pain of health anxiety. Almost is if the OCD symptoms were merely a better option to be consumed with than the alternative.
I'm a 41 year old smoker and I am convinced that it has finally caught up with me.
I monitor every breathe, I have mild asthma (no lectures please), I feel every rib expand every time I breathe and am short of breathe constantly. But when I am pre-occupied elsewhere I am not!!!!!
I worry I am going to have an heart attack and will leave my kids and wife alone.
When I look into the future it is black..blank..nothing there.
I feel silly writing this so I'll cut it short... where do I go to find help...are there good books or litterature..what about good therapists in the Midlands or North West.
Please help me, I have 2 kids that are just going through the final diagnosis for Aspergers and my wife cannot take anymore.
Lee
I have suffered for a couple of decades with one thing or another and am diagnosed with OCD.
I am curently undergoing CBT but I am not improving, quite the opposite.
The CBT has removed any classic OCD, if there is such a thing, and left me with the full brutal pain of health anxiety. Almost is if the OCD symptoms were merely a better option to be consumed with than the alternative.
I'm a 41 year old smoker and I am convinced that it has finally caught up with me.
I monitor every breathe, I have mild asthma (no lectures please), I feel every rib expand every time I breathe and am short of breathe constantly. But when I am pre-occupied elsewhere I am not!!!!!
I worry I am going to have an heart attack and will leave my kids and wife alone.
When I look into the future it is black..blank..nothing there.
I feel silly writing this so I'll cut it short... where do I go to find help...are there good books or litterature..what about good therapists in the Midlands or North West.
Please help me, I have 2 kids that are just going through the final diagnosis for Aspergers and my wife cannot take anymore.
Lee