Have known I'm not well again for quite a while now and have finally plucked up courage to see a GP. Thing is I really struggle with keeping appointments when I feel like this and I'm wondering if anyone has any tips to help me not chicken out and cancel it?
I get really anxious about going out at the best of times and especially if I have to be somewhere at a certain time, I don't know why that makes me anxious but it does. And then knowing I have to talk about how I'm feeling with a complete stranger, you get a different Dr every time at my surgery and I haven't seen this one before. I looked him up on the surgery website and he looks a bit stern and not very approachable so I hope he's better 'in the flesh' so to speak.
Why is this so bloody hard? I've done it before and I know I will feel better for having done something proactive about how I'm feeling so why does the thought of having to go feel like such a sodding mountain to climb?
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Hidingtonothing · 11/04/2017 23:18
Because you're not well! Can you write something down so that if words fail you can just hand it over?
Want a virtual handhold tomorrow or a poke to get you there? I get it. I really do. But this is the start of you feeling so much better. It really is. 
Oh god yes please Wolfie, that'd be great thanks 
I deliberately made the appointment for late in the day (5.20pm) so I have time to talk myself out of and then back into going 
Also anxiety kicks off my IBS so I fully expect to be glued to the loo til at least lunchtime. I hate this, worst of it is I know I will be fine as soon as it's over, it's just getting myself there that's so hard.
Not actually too worried about what to say, on past experience it will all come flooding out once I'm in there, it literally is just the getting there that's the problem. Feel like I'm calming down a bit again now, thanks Wolfie, you're right I can do this. DH is unexpectedly home early and is going to come with me which will help massively, he's brilliant at distracting me so I don't overthink and make myself more anxious. Mind you he's just asked if I want to go the pub to kill the time til the appointment, not sure that's a good idea 
He is awesome in lots of ways, still can't put his dirty pants in the washing basket though I'm jealous you have a puppy now, mine are all grown up and I miss the puppy days. Going to take the dogs for a run now, kill some time so I don't sit here and work myself up, shouldn't be too far off appointment time by the time we've done that so fingers crossed I can just crack on and get it over with. Thanks for helping me calm down, will let you know how it goes
Well that was double quick, have even been to the chemist to get my prescription and walked the 10 minutes home in that time! Doc was better than I expected from his photo, a bit brusque and no nonsense but I'm not sure that was a bad thing, I even managed not to cry He's just given me low dose Sertraline for now, see him again in 3 weeks to see how I'm doing. No referral to the CPN this time but I'm glad tbh, I've never really got anything out of seeing them and it would just be more appointments to get worked up about. I can self refer for talking therapy but the Sertraline may well be enough to do the trick so I'll see how it goes, waiting time is massive round here anyway so I probably won't need it by the time I would get seen. He's booked me in for a thyroid test as well just to be sure there's nothing else going on. So all good really, I was only out of the house half an hour all in
Oh Wolfiepup is gorgeous! Thanks for asking Wolfie
But half an hour well spent. Hope the Setraline does the trick. Good luck and well done OP.
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