Welcome to our wonderful support community. You have reached a great place for advice, encouragement and support.
Please do take the time to review the program and the tools available to you. As you move through the program, you will be able to utilize tests which are supportive tools you can share with your physician. The worksheets and homework will allow you to track your progress and allow you to learn a lot about yourself as well.
Thank you for sharing your story. You have received input from other members already who can relate to your frightening thoughts and rationale. Challenging these thoughts takes time and practice which is why we strongly advise you to work through the program at your pace.
Please post as often as you need to and good luck,
I know exactly what your talking about writing thoughts down, I had the same. It's like if you write it down or speak about it, it will resurrect demons, so-to-speak, and make things harder. Truth be told, in my case I finally just gave in and told some (trusted) people, wrote down others...it's actually pretty relieving. Once you get it out, yea, you'll expect it to come around and may think of it a little bit extra. This is where the "challenge your thoughts" part of the therapy comes in. Challenging your thoughts is a pain at first, but very rewarding after. Part of the healing process involves things you don't want to do, or may not feel ready to do. Until you're willing to take this on, quite simply, nothing will change.
Good luck on the road ahead, we're here if you need us!
I dont know what advice to give you as im also new to the cbt and challenging thoughts,im sure someone from the site will though as they are very helpfull, when i do write stuff down like hard to breath or heart pounding i start to feel it, i think its like when ya think about ya heart pounding faster it suddenly does unless ya stop thinking about it. I hope you can find a way to help you write it down, good luck xx
I'm new to this board and was looking around for ways to challenge the frightening thoughts I have coming up every day. I've had the same ones for many, many years. They are all health related in one way or another. I have already a basic grasp of CBT and I firmly believe in it's ability to be helpful. What I have always truggled with though is writing down my automatic negative thoughts. Silly though it seems as I write this, I'm terrified to write it down because I think that doing so will make it magically come true. Instead I try hard as I can to push it out of my head and tell myself I'm ok and nothing is wrong, but it usually doesn't work and other thoughts come pushing back at me. It's a frightening cycle and these are my experiences with panic and anxiety. I felt so embarrassed when I brought this up to my therapist. It's such a silly thing to believe, but it's seems so real to me in the throes of panic. It's a hurdle I have to overcome if I'm to use CBT to help myself. I just wondered if anyone else does now or ever felt this way and if they were able to overcome it. All replies are appreciated.
