Originally Posted by
Toby2000
I know but the thing is, I still keep seeing suspicious dark red with a shade of purple blobs or whatever they are in my stool, which could be blood. They won't disappear so I feel like I need to address those
T: Why wouldn't you? Think about what your doctor(s) have done. Would a test designed to just have a look what's there actually treat something and make it go away? How does someone saying you have xyz actually treat xyz? Would you describe it as a reasonable belief that it should?
Originally Posted by
Toby2000
I can't see myself going on any further if I have to put up with this s**t 24/7 constantly. I might sound dramatic and I don't mean I'm going to kill myself, I just mean mentally, but I've reached the end of my road, I'm starting therapy soon as you know so I hope that changes my mindset but the thing is that it won't change the fact that I might have small blood clots in my stool
Why would you think it would? Why would talking therapy change those physical processes when they rely on making changes to your diet. It can help you will the stress side of the impacts on your symptoms but it won't make it all go away as it's out of scope for that type of treatment. You might as well ask for an asthma inhaler to help with it.
Originally Posted by
Toby2000
I think mindfulness works best when it's anxiety about the future, when it comes to possible outcomes that you're waiting to happen. Such as "Oh my god, what if I get run over tomorrow?" or something like that. In this situation I'm not sure if it'll work because it feels like it's just ignoring the inevitable, that I might have cancer, something that's fixed
It doesn't, it works for far more than that. Otherwise it never would have me when my GAD was 24/7 non stop feeling anxious for often no reason whatsoever. You can only say that's how it works for you and unless you have been putting in many months of it you are very much at the start if learning it and seeing the benefits such as science has shown in how it reduces the fear centre and increased the comparison centre, things all of us can be helped by.
You are back to seeing therapy routes as ignoring illness. Where is your illness? Please explain to me how an entire branch of modern medicine is telling people to ignore their illnesses? You do realise that therapy is used to help actual cancer sufferers too along with a wide range of physical conditions, chronic or terminal. How would telling them to ignore they are ill work?
What does the NHS say about therapy? Do they say it does any of this?