(Transferred from Wattpad. Written:5th January 2017) Who are you to ask this of me? Who am I to accept orders from you? Are you above my worth? Do I consider myself a lowly servant to your every whim? I agree downtrodden to your request, however when I create a distance between us I find …
Social Anxiety & Me
Before I started my blog on WordPress I wrote a few things on Wattpad which I will start to upload here. Starting with my Q&A social anxiety & me. I answer questions from Gillian Butler’s book to help overcome social anxiety and shyness. 26 January 2017 Question One - How does social anxiety affect you? …
Revelations from CBT
I thought I would talk to you a little today about what has been happening with my last couple of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) appointments. As homework I keep a thought diary (as below) where I have to describe the situation I was in, what thought/s I had and what feeling/s I experienced. Simple Thought …
Enjoying a healthy social life
I have taken this article from "reconnect" magazine issue 48 and thought it was a very insightful read about Social Anxiety Disorder. ~~~ "Welcome back to our exploration into all things emotional. In this edition our Emotional Health columnist LEIGH SMITH explores a socially destructive condition which many of us suffer from in silence, and …
A positive day!
It's so rare to feel energised and positive and when I do it feels amazing!! Today has been one of those days. Everything was different, I woke up several times thinking it must be time to get up now, we must have overslept but no we hadn't. For some reason I was ready to get …
High Intensity CBT
A couple of weeks ago I started High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I had been on the waiting list for this since December after completing about five Level 2 (I think) sessions. After those sessions myself and my therapist decided that they weren't of much help and that I should try a higher level. …
Hypnotherapy & Anxiety: Part Three
First of all I just wanted to say hi and sorry it's been a while since my last post! Unfortunately I have not been feeling great recently with lots of symptoms of depression and as you probably know it's hard to get things done when you are feeling tired and lack any motivation to do …
Hypnotherapy & Anxiety: Part Two
I attended another hypnotherapy session last Wednesday. It was quite odd to be honest. I had to imagine myself in one place as the "new" me and another place as the current me. I decided that the new me would be sitting on the sofa, legs crossed, leaning forward slightly and the old me was …
Anxiety is a fickle thing!
Anxiety is a fickle thing! Yesterday I was feeling so positive and empowered and excited about my future and today anxiety says "Oh no you don't! I'm not letting you get away that easily. I've got something else up my sleeve." and has hit me with a wall of pure fatigue. My head feels like a …
Mrs. Motivation
So there I was sitting on my bed urging myself to go to work but losing the battle. It was the Tuesday after Easter Monday where I'd enjoyed a glorious four-day weekend. It's hard going back to work after the two days, let alone four days off! (Although I have been struggling to get to …
