Reminder: increase in anxiety is not an indicator of danger! I just saw something triggering and my first impulse was to ruminate to "figure out" this new problem- but that thing I saw existed before I was made aware of it, and it had no affect on me then. Why should I let it affect me now? Sometimes our internal alarm clocks go off without a good reason. Our anxiety is real, but the DANGER is not. When we realise this it can make a huge difference!

such a good reminder, thank you! ~

That's what scares me. I have so many things I am anxious about and have OCD about that I'm afraid it's going to be really bad. I have only had one meeting with my therapist so far and haven't really started on the "cure" yet. My next appointment is Thursday. I had my first appointment on my phone, and now I want to do it on my laptop, but I'm afraid I don't know how to set up Zoom on here.

Ah, from personal experience it's pretty simple! When u click on the session for your laptop the zoom prompt will open. If u don't have it already there will be a button to download from there, if u do then you'll just join the session immediately. I was worried about the same problem but I just went for it and everything worked out. I was at the meeting on time