I Have Anxiety

I went to see an occupation health doctor yesterday. He asked me where I thought depression and anxiety started. I explained to him that I had been the victim of a serious crime in my late teens and it started there. He explained that even though the stimulus for anxiety has been removed, that the triggers for attacks are still there. He suggested CBT to help try to reduce the responses to those triggers. Thats the most sense answer and explanation any doctor has ever given me. Hes given me hope. After just a one hour consultation, I left him feeling like a barb in my chest had carefully been removed. I haven't felt anxious today. I have felt calm and confident around people at work. Ive always felt threatened by people before. I dont know how he did it, but he performed a miracle yesterday. Over 20 years ive dealt with this on my own and in one day without even laying so much as a finger on me, he put me right. He told me I dont need medication, that CBT is the treatment I will benefit from most. What an amazing man. I wish all doctors were like him.