While I think relaxation skills are important....they are NOT enough to help me with the racing thoughts. Mood stabilizers are the only things that get me to the point where relaxation works. Well....Benadryl and Unisom also zonk me out but the sleep is not restorative for my poor brain. I eventually get huge bursts of intrusive thoughts if I depend on antihistamines for sleep.
I would discuss with the T why you responded like that to the relaxation techniques. Your situation is familiar to me but I also have PTSD which would be mucking up my reasons to be nervous and weepy
. I have an idea that your mind is trying to make you back off before you hit upon something it is trying to protect you from.
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Originally Posted by BNLsMOM
Today my t and I talked about ways to help me relax and get rid of my racing thoughts so that I can go to sleep at night. He guided me through a relaxation and for some reason I felt very nervous and scared and like I was going to cry.
Ever since, I have felt fragile like I could cry at the drop of a hat. Even with all my depressive episodes, I hardly ever cry.
I am actually afraid that we will find something under the surface that will be scary to deal with, or maybe I am just working so hard all the time to hold it together that we were just breaking through that barrier.
I am going back in Wednesday to do some more work with him.
Anyone have any thoughts on where this feeling was coming from?
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