Trev
30-03-06, 15:54
Just a quickie to let you know that I took and passed my Advanced Motorcycling Test yesterday, so I'm very happy about that :D:D
The reason for posting up is to hopefully give others a boost as there is a deeper significance behind this fact.
I've not posted my story, but my problems were not helped when I was hit, head on, on my bike at the end of 03. It wasn't my fault and I was physically basically ok despite being somersaulted backwards. Basically, I was very, very lucky to get up from it. Some kind souls then stole the wreckage of my treasured motorbike while I was away ringing for recovery assistance. All in all, it's fair to say it wasn't my best day!!!
After hassle with the insurance I eventually got another bike and carried on the training for this advanced test as I'd started it already and paid for it. Other things happened in my life and then I had my first panic attack "out of the blue" (as I thought) just before my test came up and I had to cancel it. I had no idea what was happening to me and the following year has been well documented on here.
So yesterday, taking the test seemed like a real marker.
When I was stuck in the worst of the anxiety nightmare that we all know and have experienced I wondered if I would ever be able to even hold a normal conversation again or ever leave my house again. I thought I was doomed to madness or death and that was it.
Don't ever give up hope. You can make it out of the nightmare and back to your "old world" even when it seems like it won't happen for you. It will happen if you keep working at it despite the ups and downs and the setbacks.
All the best,
Trev :D
The reason for posting up is to hopefully give others a boost as there is a deeper significance behind this fact.
I've not posted my story, but my problems were not helped when I was hit, head on, on my bike at the end of 03. It wasn't my fault and I was physically basically ok despite being somersaulted backwards. Basically, I was very, very lucky to get up from it. Some kind souls then stole the wreckage of my treasured motorbike while I was away ringing for recovery assistance. All in all, it's fair to say it wasn't my best day!!!
After hassle with the insurance I eventually got another bike and carried on the training for this advanced test as I'd started it already and paid for it. Other things happened in my life and then I had my first panic attack "out of the blue" (as I thought) just before my test came up and I had to cancel it. I had no idea what was happening to me and the following year has been well documented on here.
So yesterday, taking the test seemed like a real marker.
When I was stuck in the worst of the anxiety nightmare that we all know and have experienced I wondered if I would ever be able to even hold a normal conversation again or ever leave my house again. I thought I was doomed to madness or death and that was it.
Don't ever give up hope. You can make it out of the nightmare and back to your "old world" even when it seems like it won't happen for you. It will happen if you keep working at it despite the ups and downs and the setbacks.
All the best,
Trev :D