_Emma
07-10-10, 16:57
Hi everyone...
Well I have 2 confess, I haven't been on here for a while, and that is because I have been doing quite well, and when I come on here and read other people's problems, I start 2 imagine I might have them, so I find it best not to! Hope that doesn't sound rude or anything, it's just I'm a huge hypochondriac! (sp?)
Anyway, as I said, I was doing pretty well, seeing a psychologist, going through graded exposure for my agoraphobia (I can now get on a train!) lol. Also I hadn't had a panic attack in 5 weeks. I was starting to hope that maybe by some sort of miracle they had gone, but then yesterday morning (about 7am) I awoke feeling like I couldn't catch my breath, and then panic swept over me and off it went again. I tried to do all my breathing techniques which I had been taught, but they are so much easier to do when you're feeling relaxed and very difficult to do when you're feeling panicky! Anyway, it lasted for about half an hour, and then passed and I was able to get back to sleep.
My problem now is that I'm dreading it happening again, and feel so so so so disappointed that it DID happen, just when I was doing so well. I've been afraid all day, just expecting it to happen, and have started to dread going back to bed. Any advice on how to get over this? Feeling really disheartened right now, and I don't see my psychologist again until next Wednesday.
Thanks,
Emma x
Well I have 2 confess, I haven't been on here for a while, and that is because I have been doing quite well, and when I come on here and read other people's problems, I start 2 imagine I might have them, so I find it best not to! Hope that doesn't sound rude or anything, it's just I'm a huge hypochondriac! (sp?)
Anyway, as I said, I was doing pretty well, seeing a psychologist, going through graded exposure for my agoraphobia (I can now get on a train!) lol. Also I hadn't had a panic attack in 5 weeks. I was starting to hope that maybe by some sort of miracle they had gone, but then yesterday morning (about 7am) I awoke feeling like I couldn't catch my breath, and then panic swept over me and off it went again. I tried to do all my breathing techniques which I had been taught, but they are so much easier to do when you're feeling relaxed and very difficult to do when you're feeling panicky! Anyway, it lasted for about half an hour, and then passed and I was able to get back to sleep.
My problem now is that I'm dreading it happening again, and feel so so so so disappointed that it DID happen, just when I was doing so well. I've been afraid all day, just expecting it to happen, and have started to dread going back to bed. Any advice on how to get over this? Feeling really disheartened right now, and I don't see my psychologist again until next Wednesday.
Thanks,
Emma x