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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Bowsher" data-source="post: 1828155" data-attributes="member: 473339"><p>[USER=244823]@briony1[/USER] </p><p></p><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Type 1 was almost definitely a major cause for me.</p><p></p><p>Since being diagnosed with Type 1 in the mid 90's i have managed to persuade myself that i have been dying of, or i am going to die of pretty much every illness going - CJD, AIDS, Swine Flu , Bird Flu, Lymphoma, Motor Neurons disease, Brain tumors, testicular cancer.</p><p></p><p>I'm not an expert, but i realise that it's a very complicated condition which is not down to a single root cause. My elongated periods of anxiety and obsessive checking + other behaviours would last at least 8 - 12 weeks at a time and would break me physically and mentally.</p><p></p><p>CBT helped with the day to day stuff, but the only thing i found that really helped deep down was time - because 6 months after i thought i was going to die, hold on, i'm still alive??</p><p></p><p>It really does help to look back and realise what you haven't died of already the next time you start to worry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Bowsher, post: 1828155, member: 473339"] [USER=244823]@briony1[/USER] Hi, Type 1 was almost definitely a major cause for me. Since being diagnosed with Type 1 in the mid 90's i have managed to persuade myself that i have been dying of, or i am going to die of pretty much every illness going - CJD, AIDS, Swine Flu , Bird Flu, Lymphoma, Motor Neurons disease, Brain tumors, testicular cancer. I'm not an expert, but i realise that it's a very complicated condition which is not down to a single root cause. My elongated periods of anxiety and obsessive checking + other behaviours would last at least 8 - 12 weeks at a time and would break me physically and mentally. CBT helped with the day to day stuff, but the only thing i found that really helped deep down was time - because 6 months after i thought i was going to die, hold on, i'm still alive?? It really does help to look back and realise what you haven't died of already the next time you start to worry. [/QUOTE]
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