Are you able to offer some words of wisdom???

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Hi All

Let me give you some background about me. I have had an anxiety disorder for

most of my life and was only diagnosed as such 2 years ago.

This all came to a head after my husband and I went to Europe in Oct 2004.

During the time in Europe I was so stressed about the unknown and listening to

the thoughts in my head that I spent mist of the time in a flight/fight syndrome

to the point that I was vomiting do much that I lost 20kgs in 4 weeks. After

returning home life got back to normal and I gained about 10kgs.

My husband and I then started trying to have a child and I feel pregnant 6

months later. The unknown of this also sent me into Fight/fligt and I lost

another 26kgs in the first 26 weeks of my pregnancy. I was put kn medication for

prenatal depression and told I should be fine. I hated taking the medication as

I it made me feel numb and feeling sad was better than feeling nothing at all. I

came off the medication and at around 30 weeks pregnant started to feel a lot

better. In December 05 I delivered a ver healthy girl who has been the love of

our lives ever since.

I returned to work after having our daughter in Sept 06 and worked full time for

the company I had worked for before she was born. During the next 12 months we

had a change of management and this again saw my disorder heighten again.

Finally in March 08 I started to see a new doctor and he diagnosed me with OCD

and GAD and sent me to see my psychologylist. She has been wonderful and

introduced me to ACT and I haven't looked back since, until now.

Life gas changed so much for me due to ACT that I now feel that I have joined

the world of the living again, and my husband and I have discovered that we are

expecting our second child in April 11, we are over the moon for this to occur

but today I can feel all the old feelings coming back up again! Will I be a good

mother, can I give this child everything it needs and wants? What will our

daughter now miss out on because of the new Che?

Can you tell me if these feelings are normal or am I over reacting again? And

also what would be the act approach to this?

Sorry for the long post and thanks to those that take the tome tobrwad the post

Cheers

Deb

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Hi Deb - I know a couple of mom's on the list who can validate your motherly feelings. Hopefully, they will chime in.Sounds like ACT has been working for you, probably in the background in recent months. It's time to restock your ACT toolkit and do again what you've done since 08. You are lucky in that your experience is that ACT works. No need to rethink it.Congratulations!Bill> To: ACT_for_the_Public > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:53:54 +0000> Subject: Are you able to offer some words of wisdom???> > Hi All> Let me give you some background about me. I have had an anxiety disorder for most of my life and was only diagnosed as such 2 years ago.> This all came to a head after my husband and I went to Europe in Oct 2004. During the time in Europe I was so stressed about the unknown and listening to the thoughts in my head that I spent mist of the time in a flight/fight syndrome to the point that I was vomiting do much that I lost 20kgs in 4 weeks. After returning home life got back to normal and I gained about 10kgs. > My husband and I then started trying to have a child and I feel pregnant 6 months later. The unknown of this also sent me into Fight/fligt and I lost another 26kgs in the first 26 weeks of my pregnancy. I was put kn medication for prenatal depression and told I should be fine. I hated taking the medication as I it made me feel numb and feeling sad was better than feeling nothing at all. I came off the medication and at around 30 weeks pregnant started to feel a lot better. In December 05 I delivered a ver healthy girl who has been the love of our lives ever since.> I returned to work after having our daughter in Sept 06 and worked full time for the company I had worked for before she was born. During the next 12 months we had a change of management and this again saw my disorder heighten again. > Finally in March 08 I started to see a new doctor and he diagnosed me with OCD and GAD and sent me to see my psychologist . She has been wonderful and introduced me to ACT and I haven't looked back since, until now.> Life gas changed so much for me due to ACT that I now feel that I have joined the world of the living again, and my husband and I have discovered that we are expecting our second child in April 11, we are over the moon for this to occur but today I can feel all the old feelings coming back up again! Will I be a good mother, can I give this child everything it needs and wants? What will our daughter now miss out on because of the new Che?> Can you tell me if these feelings are normal or am I over reacting again? And also what would be the act approach to this?> Sorry for the long post and thanks to those that take the tome tobrwad the post> Cheers> Deb> > > > ------------------------------------> > For other ACT materials and list serves see www.contextualpsychology.org> > If you do not wish to belong to ACT_for_the_Public, you may > unsubscribe by sending an email to > ACT_for_the_Public-unsubscribe@...! Groups Links> > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACT_for_the_Public/> > <*> Your email settings:> Individual Email | Traditional> > <*> To change settings online go to:> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACT_for_the_Public/join> (Yahoo! ID required)> > <*> To change settings via email:> ACT_for_the_Public-digest > ACT_for_the_Public-fullfeatured > > <*>