Hey Ken, just want to chime in…PSA is the MOST HORRIBLE acronym in my life and probably in the lives of everyone on the forum and beyond.
The gut wrenching anxiety and projection is a real physical response to these 3 letters that seem to be so telling in whether we live or die. They’re NOT But we’ve been conditioned to believe that they are the Be All and End All of our existence.
Your results are really clinically insignificant right now, but your dread and anxiety are not - and that’s OK!! Some of us are better at compartmentalizing our fears; some aren’t (like me) but you don’t need a therapist to tell you how you should feel. If you want to talk to someone about it that’s fine, but there is no cure for how you are built.
I am a chronic worrier and I’ve learned to embrace it, rather than fight it. When that old familiar feeling of dread begins to creep in I just say to myself ‘‘oh well, there I go again”. And I quickly realize that I shouldn’t take myself so seriously because it’s ME who is making this a bigger problem than it is. I didn’t need a therapist to tell me this, just 70 years of living to know who I really am. It’s OK to have fear, but don’t let that single emotion rule your entire life. Best,
Phil