Posted by Dinah on November 24, 2002, at 9:19:15
In reply to Re: Burns NOT a med-basher, posted by wcfrench on November 24, 2002, at 0:30:04
My trouble with CBT and anxiety is that it's like whack the mole. If I deal with one area of anxiety, another one pops up, and so on... If I manage to deal with anxiety completely, something even more unpleasant (agitation and urges to self harm) pops up. I think that sometimes anxiety about this or that is more than anxiety about this or that, it is a discharge of some sort. And if that avenue of discharge is blocked, another will form. Like damming a river.
So I started out with a severe phobia about vomit, channeled all my fear etc into that. Successfully diminished that fear with CBT. Several fears later, I wish I had that d*mn phobia about vomiting back. It was the least harmful of any of them. My mind had long ago chosen a relatively benign (relatively I must confess) way of focusing the fear. I shouldn't have messed with it.
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