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I'm so glad I could help, Emily.
At times when I was really afraid of my symptoms I wrote a list. I love lists, so I wrote a lot of them
One column was my fears - all the things I was afraid my symptoms would do to me
The other column was all the things I wanted to do if I had no fear, no symptoms at all.

What I learned was that the "wanted" column items were real, tangible and attainable.
The things in the fear column were not provable, not real, not even happening. Claire Weekes helped me see that fear, worry, rumination is nothing more than the brain doing what the brain does: thinking thoughts. LOTS of thoughts and 90% of them are not true. I was then able to tell myself repeatedly (like 100 times a day) "that's not happening now, it's not true, I'm safe"... and it worked.

I'm beginning to do some of the things in the "wanted" column, and know that I will get to all of them, in time!