Posted by: spacecanada
« on: April 13, 2015, 10:26:19 PM » CM!
I was really lucky to find a psychologist who did his own (accurate) research into the severity of anaphylaxis (upon taking me on as a client) and truly understood and respected the challenges of living with such a medical condition. My psychologist told me that my world needs to stay small to keep me safe - and that social anxiety was completely reasonable given my circumstances. He was very much about defining what was safe and reasonable vs. what wasn't and how those affect life as a whole - and dealing with them. If anyone lives near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I can PM you his name and contact details.
I wonder if other PTSD specialists (particularly military or first responder-type) would be more in tune to anaphylaxis from a psychology standpoint, since it's facing a potential life-threatening situation on a daily basis and navigating the real risks. (Like military in a war zone - I heard many military references throughout my treatment, which made sense.) I don't think the psychology of anaphylaxis is anything like what most psychologists deal with. Many psychologists deal with risks that aren't real, ones that are over-exaggerated, or irrational. I doubt many of them see or have experience dealing with the level of real threat to life we live with each day.
I was really lucky to find a psychologist who did his own (accurate) research into the severity of anaphylaxis (upon taking me on as a client) and truly understood and respected the challenges of living with such a medical condition. My psychologist told me that my world needs to stay small to keep me safe - and that social anxiety was completely reasonable given my circumstances. He was very much about defining what was safe and reasonable vs. what wasn't and how those affect life as a whole - and dealing with them. If anyone lives near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I can PM you his name and contact details.
I wonder if other PTSD specialists (particularly military or first responder-type) would be more in tune to anaphylaxis from a psychology standpoint, since it's facing a potential life-threatening situation on a daily basis and navigating the real risks. (Like military in a war zone - I heard many military references throughout my treatment, which made sense.) I don't think the psychology of anaphylaxis is anything like what most psychologists deal with. Many psychologists deal with risks that aren't real, ones that are over-exaggerated, or irrational. I doubt many of them see or have experience dealing with the level of real threat to life we live with each day.