"Sinking" feeling?
So I was talking to my therapist today. We were talking about the CBT module I'm completing for health anxiety, but I put this here because this particular feeling I'm talking about doesn't just concern health anxiety but rather all things I'm anxious about in general.
Anyway, we were doing a practice thought challenge, where I basically say what I'm afraid of and we work through evidence supporting it, evidence against it, and then come to a conclusion.
I mentioned to her that the hardest part with doing these types of exercises is that no matter how "logical" the solution I come up with is, it doesn't always make me feel better, if that makes sense. So I can straight up say "no, I am not going to wake up tomorrow and start losing clumps of my hair" and generally believe it, but then this awful, negative, sinking feeling swoops in and makes me feel really low and it honestly makes me anxious about it all over again. It's like it doesn't matter what I think, I can't shake the pain of it.
It's actually a similar feeling to one I get where I am happy or excited about something, then remember something specific that has been upsetting me, the sinking feeling comes in, and all my happiness is gone. Sometimes there isn't even a specific worry, it's just gone.
I was trying to sort of explain it, but was having a hard time coming up with the exact words to describe it. That's kind of a common problem for me - I've internalized my anxiety/depression for so long it's hard to translate it for others, if even that makes sense.
My therapist said it was an understandable feeling, but did seem a little confused as to what I was trying to describe - no doubt I wasn't doing a very good job.
Does anyone else get this or something similar?
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