It's a frustrating thing to go through... - Anxiety Support

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It's a frustrating thing to go through...

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I've been attack free for 5 days feeling quite healthy and strong. However I was sat last night on the couch, completely relaxed and all of a sudden my stomach dropped, my heart fluttered a little and the wave of heat came over me. I felt OK and was able to cope with it. It lasted for around 5 minutes. I just find it such an odd thing, as far as I was concerned I was feeling good and calm. I'm still feeling confident though and it hasn't set me back too much.

This anxiety has dented me in such a frustrating way though as I've now become completely scared of flying. My partner had surprised me with a lovely trip to Paris for Valentines day and we had to cancel due to my anxiety which was being made worse by the thought of flying and putting our dog in a kennel (I just thought of every bad scenario that could happen to him). As I've been feeling better recently though we've talked about booking a holiday. Initially my stomach dropped at the thought of flying but as I've been feeling stronger I thought I should just bite the bullet and say 'let's go', however after my mini flutters last night I've been thinking twice about it. The thought of having a full blown attack whilst in the air scared the hell out of me. It's all well and good when you're feeling OK but when they hit there's no getting away from the panic.

My usual way of dealing with illness/sickness is to just push myself and get on with it. I'm just not sure if that's the right thing to do in all cases with this anxiety because I might put myself in a stupid situation.

How has everybody else dealt with their anxiety? Is anybody currently going through CBT?

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