I posted earlier on this topic and it was the loving relationship between mother and daughter that delighted me but when I returned a few days later several people had responded to the references to panic attacks. I really do believe it’s down to the glass half full or glass half empty syndrome. My glass is always brimming and I see Catherine’s glass is full too. Whereas the people who home in on what they see as negative are holding glasses that are always underfilled – poor things.

I agree with you, it’s a personality thing. I’m a worrier and if I get really anxious I get what feels like a lump in my chest or I pick away at my fingers or I find it hard to sleep. My mother was a worrier and I remember her telling me that her GP had said, “Mrs C, you worry and if you haven’t anything to worry about, then you worry about that!” I think Catherine and Tadpole have a really lovely relationship because they are sensitive of each other’s needs and emotions and are open with each other.

Then Bossy met a psychologist in her California travels who told her that her panic attack had created Neuro Pathways and Bossy needed to *quickly* work to re-route her tendency to revisit this panic, or risk being stuck in the same record groove.

Bossy accomplished this re-routing by imagining her best self, her unworried self, and what that self would look like to others, and pretending those others were right there with Bossy noticing and admiring how unworried she was, and lo and behold the panic dissipated and the Neuro Pathways, over the next week, disappeared.

Bossy wishes you the best.