Sending Messages of Safety

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[@jacqueschauvin1398]

I think I understood a little better why we need to try not to have a fear response in our parasympathetic system. Thanks

[@mariang3946]

Thanks Mathew for your advice well articulated. Best wishes from Liverpool UK 🇬🇧

[@amberf7438]

Isnt it both though? I am starting Pain Reprocessing Therapy soon for my neuropathic pain (chronic pain). I dont have OCD but I have experienced panic attacks and I have been dx w generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. Alan Gordon really does emphasizes sending messages of safety which does include self talk. I feel like my negative mental self talk has a huge impact on how my body reacts. Reaching out to that primitive brain, and that "little kid" (inner child) that didnt feel safe.
Ive been reading a lot of personal stories in books and doing some journaling and I feel like it really triggered my anxiety and SNS because my pain got pretty bad. I tried doing deep breathing and a few other things but it didnt seem to really help that much. I know I was scared even though I knew logically feeling that way was not helpful and that I was not in any actual danger.
It's frustrating.
I realize that my depression and anxiety are also just another form of neuropathic pain and a maladaptive neuropathic loop my brain created decades ago in an effort to try and keep warn that little girl that she was in danger. I was rarely ever in physical danger but it didnt feel that way back then.
At the time I couldnt do much about it since I was just a kid, but those same pathways never went away and are stronger than ever. So strong that Ive been dealing w pain for over three years. Feeling helpless also carried over into my adulthood, again reenforcing messages of danger.
I just realized only recently its because of these neuro pathways. It gave me hope (where before I thought I was destined to be in pain "forever"), but now it's become overwhelming. I dont know how to keep the hope alive w o the responsibility and burden of being in charge of my own recovery sending me spiraling. Which just recreate the fear/pain cycle but for a different reason, irony.
Im still waiting to see my therapist and that is part of the problem I think. I was doing so well and then something shifted and I feel like Im in freak out mode. The positivity went down and the anxiety went up and I think thats why my pain has gotten worse.
I didnt realize I had a choice when it came to my depression and anxiety, it sure didnt *feel* like I did. It just feels like it takes over. Im trying to be more mindful and see it as something that is truly not me but it's so strong. I dont know how to fight that. Fear is all Ive known. How do I undo something thats been in my life for decades?

[@arniusarniukas2029]

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[@LadyT52]

What is triple a response? Is there a video on it

[@jacqueschauvin1398]

@frey
Sorry about your Fear of H…… I do too so you’re not alone God be with us…Do not forsake us.

[@Juliiebee]

Wow Great video!
Would you consider health anxiety a type of ocd? Since there’s checking, safety behaviours etc
I used to suffer with HOCD , and I did your program and with a lot of work I recovered from that after suffering for about 3 years with it.
Lately I’ve been experiencing health anxiety, and I see similarities with this and ocd

[@freyaaldrnari6086]

Do you actually work with people on the phone? Fear of hell