Any kind of personal confrontation.

And yet they might well have simply not seen you, or been sunk into their own thoughts and worries. The techniques we describe will still work for you. I have since learnt that this type of treatment is called exposure therapy where your fears are faced head on. Your own reactions are of overwhelming importance to you but by focusing on them so much you can lose sight of other ways of viewing a situation. While the above examples are extreme, sometimes, to an Anxiety sufferer, it absolutely feels like the end of their world. Do you sleep less after a bad day for Anxiety, or does the exhaustion mean that you sleep more? I go jogging and go to the gym, walk, cycle. Here is a reminder checklist: & overestimating the chances of danger & overestimating the size of the danger & underestimating your ability to cope with the danger & scanning & fear of fear & self-fulfilling prophecies & worrier & critic & victim & perfectionist & overestimating a bad outcome & catastrophising & unrealistic expectations & all-or-nothing thinking & over-generalising & filtering & discounting the positive & magnifying/minimising & emotional reasoning & jumping to conclusions & taking it personally & blaming yourself & name calling & wishful thinking. Start by answering these questions. If you approach this with an o mind, and accept the possibility of change, you have every chance of success. The only answer is to take the issues one at a time, and the key at all levels of goal setting is to start with the one that you feel will cause you the least stress and be the easiest to achieve. This was the first of many, in adult and adolescent units in different parts of the country, following suicide attempts and episodes of self- harm (cutting, burning, solvent abuse, periods of dehydration (self- inflicted) and also periods of starvation.) Someone with OCD may also come to believe that just by having the thoughts they can cause bad things to hap. In the quest to be perfect someone with OCD can blame themselves for any thoughts they have which they judge to be bad thoughts and may feel they should be punished for having those thoughts. Discounting the positive I cut down my checking yesterday morning, but I was as bad as ever in the afternoon. Also, no one likes to waste food, and yet for someone who is struggling a whole banana or a whole slice of toast can seem just too much. No. Think back over your life in the two years leading up to your first experience of panic, phobia, obsession or GAD and tick any of the items that you experienced. If they have a fear of doing their rituals in public, they need to cut down on their rituals. Blaming yourself Do you feel responsible for everything that haps to your nearest and dearest?