I am so cross with myself I have been having a course of CBT and really felt I was moving forward with this awful phobia. I have progessed from not even being able to think of s..k to looking at photos and even watching someone making themselves ill. i was soo proud of myself . But then last week it all went wrong when my neighbours had been out all night. I sleep with ears plugs so that was not a problem, but when I woke at 8am to start the day I could hear one of them being s..k, I tries soo desperately to do my exposure work I had learnt but it was too much. I paniked and had to phone my parents to come over. It was awful. I had to go to my furthest point which was my bathroom and I cleaned it from top to toe just to take my mind off things, till my parents arrived.
I suppose I am writing this just for reassurance that things can improve again, my anxiety is a lot higher again since this incident and I just want to be able to get on with my days without worrying .
Bethan x