MRI scan time! I had a hard time with this one as its a loooooooong time in the scanner (1.5 hours). If you have gone through cancer treatment or similar, you will understand my catastrophising thoughts - having had primary breast cancer, any aches and pains automatically fill me with panic that I have secondary cancer somewhere. Its a bit of a horror trip and I just wanted to put this out there that even therapists go through this and have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps to get through it.
I had to take myself off to an imaginary beach of relaxation and ignore the thoughts screaming inside me of claustrophia, "what ifs" and general catastrophising. I resisted pressing the panic button and found it hard to block out the "Ive got an itch...I must scratch it...but Im not allowed to move thoughts" Anyway all done, hurrah and I got through it. Once again thanks to the amazing NHS staff.
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