The therapy mentioned doesn't begin to resemble anything like I got. My feelings, physical or emotional, were valid. That was a basic premise. The idea was t

The therapy mentioned doesn't begin to resemble anything like I got. My feelings, physical or emotional, were valid. That was a basic premise. The idea was to teach myself some mental tricks to, basically, distract or corral those feelings as they rise up, as to how those present in my mind further on. Pain distracts me. It makes me highly anxious about my health. It ruins my mood. No surprise. I've been suffering from a throat condition that has made me unwilling to eat many days for almost two months. We are not quite sure what's wrong yet. Maybe it's because I don't have chronic pain, but it seems clear to me how the pain interweaves with my thinking. It triggers thought loops. It is an automatic excuse to stop self-care. I can't eat it hurts. (Not eating and getting sicker will hurt more.) When it flairs up, i want that to lead to "go take care of yourself!" thoughts not a loop of "is it resistant to all antibiotics?" which is of no use to me. That's an insight I learned from CBT not even for pain. In my case, this is mostly about anxiety at its core. I'm not sure I would expect too much benefit otherwise.