why? I just don’t understand. Yesterday it was lightly raining and it was making me very anxious. I don’t understand why this is happening. What could be going wrong? I didn’t have this before unless it was a big storm. Right now we only have a couple inches of snow and my heart is racing. I feel like something horrible is going to happen. I have a dr apt later and I just want to cancel it. Should I reschedule or face my fears?
Sometimes I get horrible anxiety driving. Sometimes I need to medicate myself while driving.
I’m not full of fear today.
Jayster
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I’m the same way. Any bit of precipitation makes me anxious. I thought I was the only one like that.
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Try to face your fears if you can and keep your doc appointment. Probably you should let your pdoc know how you are feeling too.
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well I made it to the appointment, but I did need to take Ativan to make the trip. oh well that’s what it’s for
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I’m glad you made your appointment. It sounds like it was needed. Sometimes I need to take propranolol for my anxiety to make appointments too. But in my case, the room setup and anticipating that setup is what makes me nervous.
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That’s interesting. Do you mind if I ask what about the room setup is making you nervous?
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It has echoes in it. There is nothing but the psychiatrist, his chair, a couch for me, and a small table with his laptop and a big screen TV. No pictures, no rugs, no plants, nothing. It makes me really nervous. Like I’m in a lab of some sort. I know the TV is for tele-therapy, but I can’t stop feeling that it is watching me and that he is testing me to see if I look at it excessively. Also, the echos and his voice are so loud that I have to wear ear plugs there.
omg that’s terrible. I wish he could make that more inviting. It sounds like it’s that way on purpose.
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I told him that the echoes bother me and he said that he knows he’s in theory supposed to decorate the place and it would help with the echoes, but I might notice that so far he has not. I guess that means that it will stay the same. I don’t know why he likes this environment. I went to a therapist from the same establishment and it was that way too. I guess they just like the stark look. I put up with my psychiatrist because his meds seem to work and I am worried that if I go to someone else, they will not take me seriously because I started having the psychosis like symptoms so late in life.
If you had the money you could buy him a nice manly tapestry to get him started on the decorating
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I might do that. Though I’m not sure what he would read into it. I hope it is not inappropriate to give your psychiatrist a gift. I didn’t get my counselor a Christmas gift because I thought I wasn’t supposed to, but then she got me one. Oh well.
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