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The fourteen day challenge

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I made it to Day 3, yesterday. Then 2 hours in, I started the negatives again. So, now I am starting Day 1 again today. Try, try, try again.

I also have a quote that my T gave me recently.

"Success consists of getting up once oftener than you fall down." author unknown

I like it and wish I could think this positive all the time. :confused:
 
I have lost count so back to day 1. Today was a good day for me. I drove and did'nt have anxiety woo hoo!!!:cool:

I will try to keep track, and hopefully will make it to day 14. Having positive things to do and to look forward to helps alot.
 
I think I'm day 2 or 3 ...KP's post helped me to understand the difference on how better to term things I feel instead berating myself as a go-to form of expression. When the pdoc said I looked better I immediately said I had put on weight not that "I was a ....", and I just mentioned that I was uncomfortable. I have not picked on myself but thought in terms "healthy". :)
 
Day one... I'm seeing that I've got some serious self talk problems from this exercise. When I get a fear/thought about coping or toughing out a difficult situation I bash myself until I'm nearly paralyzed and just wait it out to start over trying to clear my mind and just be quiet and breathe til it stops.

I really feel so inadequately equipped to deal with things. It doesn't stop me from doing them... I do it anyway... but any sense of satisfaction or accomplishment is really diminished because running in the background is my own voice in my head shouting or whispering a litany of self criticisms.

Tips welcome.
 
Alba,

When I get stressed and the adrenaline kicks in, I do the same thing. I am trying to step back and then rationally fight my own distorted thinking. Kind of like I am arguing with myself in my own head.

Just realized that last sentence sounds a little odd (OK probably a lot odd :eek:), but I don't know a better way of putting it. Positive self pep talk to counter negative self talk?
 
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