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Originally Posted by Squiggle328
I do this EVERY time. Anxiously awaiting the session, yet within hours of my appointment, I am scared to death! The panic starts as soon as I begin to walk up the stairs to her office.[...]I am not sure why the anxiety is so high before an appointment. I wish I knew how to stop it! I have been going almost a year now. I feel like I should be past this.
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I do the same, after 3+ yrs. I have decided to just endure it - and refuse myself the "you should be past it" message. Hey, if I cancelled every time I panicked, I would have ended long ago.
I opened PC this morning and I saw
panicking...
should I go back...
nervous...
wanting to cancel...
and at least three other threads which are variations on the same theme. My conclusion:
It is perfectly normal to feel these things.
Let's face it, revealing secrets one longs to keep hidden, showing the bleeding and infected wounds that refuse to heal; lowering defenses and taking yet another risk... the feeling of being examined in a spotlight... none of this is FUN.
Of course there is anxiety.
hang on folks, there is healing out there. I am banking on it.
