Why is it that ....

[ButterfliesInHerEyes]

.... it's easy to "fix" someone else but so hard to fix ourselves?

When another emetophobic is struggling with something, or doing something that is only prolonging their misery, I can clearly see what they're doing "wrong" and I immediately know what they need to do to a) feel immediately better and b) get over this stupid phobia once and for all! BUT when it comes to applying all this good wisdom to myself, it's not so easy!

Hmmm ....

[fedup_emet]

I don't know, but I agree with what you're saying. I've been on here all morning giving advice that I wish I could follow when I'm in a panic attack. :/

[Megalooch]

Even in the middle of a terrible panic or being paralyzed by anxiety I think about all the rational things and how someone could calm down. But that's it, I think about it but I can't DO it. It's miserable.

[ButterfliesInHerEyes]

Excellent point, Megaloch. Knowing something intellectually and knowing it emotionally - or "in the gut" as it were - are two very different things. And we all know we can't intellectualize our way out of this.