Posted by Vincent_QC on September 15, 2010, at 15:04:47
In reply to Re: CBT made me much worse, actually. » TriedEveryMedication, posted by morgan miller on September 10, 2010, at 20:25:44
> Many forms of therapy may make you feel worse before you get better. That's the point of therapy, to face your fears, deal with your demons, then, once you do, you begin to heal and your mind and psyche begin to operate better. Therapy is not easy or a quick fix, it requires hard work and time.
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>That's so true!!!
I'm doing 2 therapies at the same time right now and it's very difficult...
With the cognitive therapy (exposure to fears and symptoms), I see an increase in the frequency of my panic attacks and also stop going out of the house, drive my car and I feel all the time sick... So I can't practice the exposure because of the symptoms and fears, but will have no choice to face them if I want to heal...
For the other therapy, it's new for me and another way of work, more linked to negatives emotions and negatives thoughts who lead to anxiety symptoms(most of the time it's an unconscious process).
Of course, therapy will not give results if you stay in your house and don't practice or face your fears every days or change your negatives thoughts or forget the past and the traumatic events you live in the past... and always think about those negatives events...
If I don't see results with the therapies i'm doing right now, it's because most of the time i'm stuck with my negatives thoughts, the past, and always find 10000 bad excuses to not do my exposure and face my fears.
That's not mean that I don't want to heal, that's just mean that maybe i'm not ready to change some bad habits in my life or lack the strenght to do it...
That's not easy to get into action when you face so many anxiety symptoms each day of your life and it's helping me to see no positive results from the therapy, even after 3-4 months and yes sometimes I feel hopeless because I do all what I can to understand my problems and the emotions behind them but I see no positives results...
So yes it's hard work and it take time... but I try to not feel guilty because it's not working right now, it will work with time for sure... Anxiety don't build up in me in 1 day... I was anxious for most of my life, so that's normal that I will not heal in 1 week... Have a lot of things to fix...so I do it one step at the time...
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