Thanks for your response, Fuzzybear! It's comforting to know I'm not alone in feeling unsure about how to go about working on anxiety. What seems to work best for me is to totally immerse myself in the moment, instead of worrying about what's to come... but I'm still working on perfecting that.

Sometimes it just feels like trying to change my disfunctional beliefs is futile. I've been trying to desensitize myself to these fearful beliefs, but again this isn't something that I would do in therapy.

[oh, and about the psychodynamic pity thing, you're right that it's really empathy, but it just comes across to me emotionally as pity... just another disfunctional interpretation ... maybe I'll use that one to divert the focus from anxiety in therapy ].

Thanks!

Jess

Jessie