Telephone Assessment

Hi everyone, hope you're doing as well as can be. I haven't been posting much, haven't felt too well. Looking at my iPad screen or telly was making me feel dizzy and off, no idea why. Plus I dragged myself to a concert I'd bought tickets for last year and it left me deaf for 5 days (the joys of getting older but still listening to metal lol).

I had my telephone assessment for therapy yesterday, lasted about half an hour. I'm pleased I held it together, I got tearful a few times but didn't cry until afterwards. She rang me back awhile later to offer me high intensity one on one CBT but the waiting list is about 6 months long! In the meantime she was sending me a list of books she thought would help me, 2 on health anxiety and 1 on depression. I hope they help me. It's a step in the right direction and I can only hope the wait isn't that long. I found it a lot easier to talk to a complete stranger than my family. For now I'm still on the Sertraline, now on my 5th week of it and hoping I will start to feel better.

Thanks for reading and for all your support, it's really helped me.

A x

No problem S.C., the books she recommended are:

Overcoming Health Anxiety by David Veale and Rob Willson
An Introduction to Coping With Health Anxiety by Brenda Hogan and Charles Young.

I am hoping to pick these up from the library on Thursday. I will post how I get on with them.

A x

I may try and get hold of those books myself - sounds like the sort of info I could use right now! Hope your therapy sessions go well for you!