Sounds like a phobia to me. Poor you. It's great that they skip to the nitrous straight away now - it's such a waste of time trying to get people to tough that kind of thing out.
Regarding the anticipation problem, are you at all interested in homeopathy? Because there're a number of remedies which might help there. One I'm thinking of in particular is Argentum Nitricum (http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/alt/argentum_nitricum_faq.htm) (silver nitrate) - there is the thing about playing stuff over in your head, and not being able to deal if the scenario is switched around in some way.
Still, I'm glad that when you get in there now, it's better managed. It makes my thing trivial by comparison, but I can certainly empathise with how stressful it is. Ick.
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Date: 2006-07-18 10:56 am (UTC)Regarding the anticipation problem, are you at all interested in homeopathy? Because there're a number of remedies which might help there. One I'm thinking of in particular is Argentum Nitricum (http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/alt/argentum_nitricum_faq.htm) (silver nitrate) - there is the thing about playing stuff over in your head, and not being able to deal if the scenario is switched around in some way.
Still, I'm glad that when you get in there now, it's better managed. It makes my thing trivial by comparison, but I can certainly empathise with how stressful it is. Ick.