Re: Need help with an obsession I'm going to hurt my back if I do anything
Originally Posted by
skyblue
Hi All
I am in a bit of a rough place right now and not sure how to move forward I have suffered with Anxiety for about 30 years and have coped with it the best way I could at the time..but for the last year I have convinced myself that I have a back problem and if I do any lifting I will slip a disk so I stopped doing any lifting, but now I've stopped doing anything that I think might put me at risk or in danger of injury and it's doing my head in and taking over my life as I risk assess everything and if I do do something I have to go over it a thousand times I need some advice please before I go nuts
When I was faced with thoughts like this I would challenge them with ‘so what if I do?’ The first thing I realised at the beginning of my recovery was frankly no amount of my thinking about things can change what happens to me.
If you hurt your back (which you are only convinced in yourself that you have an injury to, no actual medical fact) you go to the DRs, they asses what the actual problem is and you go from there. It’s no different than if you hurt any other part of your body.
What is it that makes you focus on your back? What are the consequences of hurting your back that you fear?
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