Lisa
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Think about it gang, whoīs not going to get anxious when you have something come out of the dark, or out from behind you and wham you on the head with a heavy stick and practically knock you off your feet?! If you do this to somebody more than twice, they're going to get paranoid about dark corners and anybody walking up behind them?! Well, this is what happens with us, only we not only never SEE our aggressor, we can't even tell when he's going to come popping out at us!!!
So, if we consider anaphylaxis in this light, as a mugger who comes out of nowhere and jumps us, can anyone blame us for getting anxious when we walk down the street? And yet HOW MANY TIMES IN A ROW does this have to happen to us? So, why should anybody blame us, especially our doctors, if we do get emotionally involved in the anxiety of history repeating itself?
Gosh, I can't tell you how many times now, when I step into an elevator and I can smell perfume around me, how I have to tell myself that no, this is NOT going to bother me, NOT THIS TIME IT WON'T!! I literally must talk myself down so as not to emotionally trigger myself, which can be almost as explosive!! I no longer am taken by surprise when it happens cause I've learned that this is not a freak thing. So, in a way, I have found a means of dealing with my emotions so as that they are not adding to the "fun"! Instead, I'm learning to be "cool" with the stupidity of it all. In fact, the last time I hit the ER due to a perfume reaction the doctors were quite surprised that I was dealing with it so well! I think they were more freaked out than I was! It really makes me more mad at myself that yet one more time I got "caught" by the perfume, even though I know there's no real way to avoid it. If it happens, it happens and no matter what I do can I revert it, but I can be quick to the draw and get meds into myself ASAP and that's been a help for then it gives me a means of counteracting it and if I still have to go to the ER, then it's cause there really was no other way around it.
So, although we are all SCARRED by doctors who have said "EMOTIONAL" you really must try to help yourself get over that for it does indeed become a factor. Instead, just recognize that this can indeed be a factor and find a means of blowing off the anxiety so that you end up difusing that part of the bomb so that it doesn't add to the explosion. I try to find something to laugh at - I find that laughter, even nervous laughter helps to distract myself from giving too much attention to what is distasteful.
I hope this helps!
Lisa
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