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Hiya tovabela! I was born all wrong to begin with! I've always had motion sickness and I always worried about getting sick when I was going to go somewhere. As a kid, I would get sick, then I couldn't enjoy where I was cause I knew I was going to get sick on the way back. Dreadful it was. I could never enjoy swings and school trips because of it. As an adult, I was diagnosed with Meniere's disease (that explains a lot of the motion sickness). Even as an adult, I can never get excited about going on vacation like others do only because I know I have a mental fight up ahead. I used to be able to just shake it off but now I can't and it's making me make my world smaller and smaller and therefore limiting myself to what I used to be able to do. I have the ginger chews that work when I'm truly feeling motion sickness but when the nausea is anxiety driven, they don't work. Go figure.

I need to find a therapist in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. I went to one in Brooklyn Heights and she didn't know of any so she recommended the American Institute of CBT. The good thing about CBT, she said, is that there are many ways to fix the negative thinking.

Like AuntDeb said, I'm going to start the new year on the right track to a more sane me.

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Wendy IBS A thru Z
Taking it one day at a time...

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