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Re: Marsha Linehan

Posted by emmanuel98 on June 27, 2011, at 20:56:08

In reply to Re: Marsha Linehan » emmanuel98, posted by Dinah on June 26, 2011, at 22:20:59

> Ouch.
>
> Perhaps he meant to say "potentially" and was trying to be understanding?

Yeah, I'm sure that's what he meant. He was trying to be understanding. It's taken him a long time to come around to the idea that this isn't something I do on purpose and can just snap out of.
>
> Keep focusing.
>
> One of the skills I find most helpful had something to do with being curious about the sensations of distress in my body. Where are they? What precisely does it feel like? It gives me a bit of distance from simply feeling it, or being caught up in it.
>
> And strangely enough it sometimes even seems to dissipate the feeling. As if it were physically gathered together and discharged.
>
> I can't recall what terminology she uses.

Yeah, my T says, just sit with the feeling and be curious about it, don't judge it or tell yourself, I can't stand this. She swears this will eventually give you more control over the feeling, but that didn't happen when I was having terrible anxiety and she ended up calling my p-doc and asking him to consider giving me a benzo so I could get some relief. As it turned out, once I got some relief for a few days from the anxiety, my body calmed down and I didn't need the benzo anymore. My p-doc will be happy to hear this.


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