Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | getting phree of phobia update

My other news is the progress on my phobia of throwing up. I was posting much more about it when I began therapy. Maybe some of you noticed that I"ve stopped posting panicked emails to this site? I found that those posts were reinforcing the panic for me. Now I'm able to divert myself before I become fully panicked like that - usually anyway.
Its certainly not gone, but I"m coping much better on most days. Still doing therapy and still making progress so I'm sticking with it. It has really begun to change my life. I have so much more room in my mind to think about other things that was taken up all day long with endless worries about getting sick. Its a struggle, but the rewards of living life more fully make it worth sticking with it. BTW I didn't end up doing much Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, I found that I didn't respond that well to it. The therapist I go to also does Gestalt therapy and I"ve found that much more effective for me.

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