New Year Eve

[beaverdiego]

Alone on NY this year, DP will be out working.

Feeling really alone and anxious about it already, and unfairly, wondering who DP will be stood next to at midnight/NY kiss.

Head is spiralling and getting very worked up about it already.

I have no one/nowhere else to spend the NY with.

Try and plan your night if you can, film then a lovely hot bath, nice food then something else. Try and stay of the alcohol it'll make things seem worse than they are. January the 1st, again have something planned.

For 'wondering' read imagining - it hasn't happened yet.

So, when you imagine him stood next to someone attractive run another script in your head. He's stood next to Father Dougal. Or Edna Everage. Or a gorgeous blond with really, really bad breath. Or he's pissed and talking to the toilet at the stroke of midnight. You can make all these possibilities as real as you want.

The problem with anxiety is that the imagination fires off and then you forget you're (effectively) making up stories and so you start to believe your imagination is real. When that happens you are on the merry-go-round...

By using that same imagination to make up alternative stories you can see them for what they are.