Anxiety taking over

[Yellow85]

I’m really struggling with severe anxiety, I feel like every day I have chest pain, like the fear/heart racing feeling you get when someone scares you or your stomach jumps. My temper is flaring to say the least - all I fee is jealousy, anger, stress with small drops of happiness from my kids. I’ve started CBT and seem to be able to rationalise perfectly well in arrears but reaction just takes over! I hate feeling like this and I feel like I’m a dark cloud at home making my kids and husband miserable. Anyone else feel like this? I guess I’m hoping CBT will work wonders...

I am just starting w CBT too. My only observation so far is it takes lots of repetitive practice and it’s hard.

Much easier to take on in theory than practice - it sounds like you need to do the work of actually putting it into practice. It is hard but keep at it.

Thanks. To be fair I’m only a couple of sessions in...learned a lot about my ‘inner kettle’ and how to know when it’s simmering - but nothing yet on how to actually stop it boiling over. So I guess I’m just at the very start of the journey...