Re: Abdominal pain
Nick no way have you ruptured your intestines...and i think deep down you know that, more likely to be anxiety or you have eaten something that has disagreed with you and you are tensing up because you are stressing over it. mconlon, believe me when i tell you that anxiety can do anything, remember its your brain that we are talking about and it rules your body, but our minds can programme our brains into doing really weird things to our body, and sometimes its just our brain that does it automatically. Remember there are loads of cases where people suffer from exam paralysis and really believe they cant move their arm and people who cant talk after a traumatic experience etc etc. thats the power of the brain. We just have to learn to reprogramme it and thats the hard bit, when we can do that we have our health anxiety and other anxiety more under control. I really believe in CBT to help us to do this, to help us to slow down our thought processes so we dont jump straight to pushing the panic button. The problem with us guys is that this response becomes a learned behaviour and we do it without thinking and by the time our rationale brain has caught up its too late we are off in panic mode and nothing will stop it. A lot of people think that people with health anxiety/anxiety are stupid but the opposite is most often true, we are usually very quick thinkers with brains that can work at speeds which would blow most ordinary people apart, we tend to like to work things out and dont like not to have answers to everything ( hark at me blowing all our trumpets) we just need to learn how to do this to our advantage.
sorry for rambling on folks
hope this helps
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Nell
The most important skill in staying calm
is not to lose sleep over small issues.
The second most important skill is to be
able to view all issues as small issues.