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Originally Posted by Iloveanimals25
Bluberry-im hoping to get the cbt skills down first like 9-12 months. Cbt is like for instance driving makes me anxious. So it's about changing thinking from I'm afraid I'm going to get in a accident bc I go below the speed limit. So changing it to like what are the true statistics that will happen etc.
I do know grounding skills but unfortunately cold of any kind doesn't work. Putting lavender oil in my 5 senses box helps. I have a feather for touch, peppermint candies for taste fireplace crackling on YouTube for sound. I usually also have a cup of herbal tea. I also look at an object and describe everything on it out loud. You're lucky, you have your husband. 😊
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Driving makes me VERY anxious too. I mostly just drive very locally. For example, without traffic Houston can be as little as 20 min. drive away, but the freeways are CRAZY! I hate driving on them and haven't for 8 years or so. The only part of Houston I drive in is the NASA area which is really quite separate from most all of the rest of Houston, and you can get around on surface streets. Plus, my youngest sister lives in that area though she lives behind a giant busy shopping mall, I hate driving once I'm close to her house. A lot of my panic attacks/anxiety occurs while driving which is why I do as little of it as possible. I feel bad about it a lot, for example, I can't take my daughter to class meetups in downtown Houston, the Houston museum district, drive her out to Galveston. But H is very good about understanding FINALLy after years of him not getting it. And his work is pretty flexible; he is a professor, but it takes him 1.5 hr to drive each way to his university so he only goes in when he teaches Tuesday and Thursdays and sometimes for his grad students on Fridays, works from home the other days and takes off work to take my daughter to school events. My daughter is definitely his little princess for all that she's 17 already!
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