I was starting to get down on myself, thinking 'geez, I am messed up with all these fears - I am never going to move forward' and then I started thinking about my cancer and all he fears I face and developed strategies to over come them. So why don't I do the same with these other fears. Instead of looking at them in one huge ball and then getting overwhelmed, why not take them one at a time.
So here is a fear I developed a strategy to work around. I get the white coat syndrome when I have my blood pressure taken. In order for me to feel comfortable, care for and listened to, I now ask the nurses to do it manually, instead of using a blood pressure machine. Sometimes I get an exasperated or nasty look, but I explain to the nurses that the machine hurts and is very uncomfortable, and then I thank them many times for going out of their routine to do this. And a try to joke with them a little. I now do this in every doctors office I go to and I can report that the last time I saw a doctor my blood pressure was 120/82, prefect and I did panic about have my blood pressure measured.
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