flutterby may I suggest when it starts try to think what or if
there was a thought.
For years I panicked when snow was mentioned, weather forecast gave ‘snow expected in Scotland’ and my stomach
churned, when it was forecast for Wales my anxiety soared.
I wouldn’t wear white, even my wedding gown was deep cream. This went on for a long time. When I was in a
Psychiatric unit a year after my husband died , January and it
snowed, I panicked. It was suggested i saw a psychologist privately, I did. There were talking sessions then he suggested
hypnotherapy.
He recorded the session, I went under , he asked me to see snow , I panicked and cried, he said what’s is happening , what can you see, feel. I won’t bore you all longer with this, but the snow falling was the tip in my home village, it was going to cover my children, me.
He explained nothing black comes from the sky but my mind
linked falling snow with falling coal sludge.
This seems rather dramatic and I apologise , but I am explaining how our mind can play tricks on us.
So I think it is worth trying to recall what your thought was before the stomach started to churn/feel like a brick, it doesn’t have to be a frightening thought, make a note of it. It could
be something someone else says.
I had a doze this afternoon, woke feeling anxiety stirring, the room had gone colder, it links doesn’t it?
