Receiving CBT - Please can you help?

[mummybean84]

Hi Everyone

I am a mum of a 3 year old daughter. Since her birth i have struggled with some anxiety and have started CBT therapy. My therapist asked me to put together a questionaire and ask some friends family to complete it but i feel very awkward about asking people i know as only a few know i am getting councelling. Would anyone here be prepared to fill it in for me? or even just post any comments answers, its less than a page long (5 questions total) if you click on the link below i promise it will take just a minute or so.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/C5GBJLG

Many Thanks in advance.

[gingeroots]

No problem . Good luck with the CBT . Hope you feel better soon .

[BigPawsBrown]

Looks like you and I are receiving cbt for almost the exact same things!

[goodasitgets]

Done I had CBT for panic attacks and it really helped

[mummybean84]

Thanks so much for all the help everyone im really grateful.

[mumblechum1]

Q3 says you can rate the things on a scale of 1to 10 but then doesn't let you. ID rate them all at 1 ( not worried at all) if that helps.

Hope you find the cbt helpful

[mummybean84]

BigPaws - I think we do have the exact same thing! Hope yours is going well. Im finding thinking about 'it' so much a bit challenging but I want to get better for my daughter.

goodasitgets - im so glad it helped you, im about half way through and praying it works for me too

[yummypickledeggs]

I think the questions were a bit odd. Were we supposed to fear fainting or being sick in public- or just anywhere? How did these questions relate to panic attacks or CBT?

[CarlyRichards]

Hi OP. I have done the survey. Good luck with your CBT

[goodasitgets]

My panic attacks used to make me feel I was going to pass out or be sick, so I get why the questions are asked
Then you panic if you pass out will people stare at you, so you panic more, and so on
I'm also phobic of being sick or fainting due to previous epileptic fits, so it's a big spiral of panic. I haven't had a panic attack for the best part of 3 years now

[mummybean84]

mumblechum1 - thanks for your message, sorry everyone i didnt realise the scale on Q3 only went up to 5. can i just ask those who answered if they rated out of 5 (with 1 being not at all scared and 5 being terrified?) or if you still marked out of 10 because your answer would have been well below 10 anyway? sorry to confuse things.

[mumblechum1]

Also, though, you couldn't mark them all 1, so mine were marked 1,2,3,4,5 which doesn't give an accurate picture.

[mummybean84]

oh i didnt realise that, thanks mumblechum1 that makes sense now as i was thinking the results werent what i was expecting. lesson for me for the future do the survey myself first!!!

Yummypickledeggs - sorry i know its a bit confusing, i am reciving CBT for a phobia i have called Emetophobia (its a fear of vomiting/seeing someone else vomit) and it has caused panic in public so the idea was to test some of my 'beliefs' for example that vomiting is the worse thing that can happen to someone (worse than say breaking a leg or fainting) and that it is terrifying (score of 10 or in this case 5) and that if it happened in public people would be shocked or disgusted.

Hope it makes more sense now, I didnt want to say all that before hand as i didnt want to effect the response and skew the results.

[gingeroots]

I had same trouble as mumblechum with the survey .

If I saw someone vomiting in public I promise you my overriding emotion would be sympathy and a desire to help .

Good luck with the CBT .

PS I found it very hard when my child was young . Made me qustion everything about myself - nature of the beast that is parenting .

[mummybean84]

Thanks gingeroots

Since I have become a Mum everything has changed, im full of anxiety and guilt and worry that never used to be there. I feel desperate to be a good mum to my daughter and kept asking the doctor for councelling because she deserves a mum who is 'normal' and at the moment im an anxious wreck!

being a mum is 100% harder than i thought. I figured it would all come natrually and i would be like one of those mums on the johnsons adverts! turns out lifes not quite like that!

[gingeroots]

It's so hard isn't it ? I really sympathise .