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[Topic ID] 159 [Post ID] 822 [Date & Time] 2005-11-17 09:16:17 [Post Text] 
Well, I had my appointment. Today, the therapist talked about the stages of arousal and how the vagina expands and all the rest. I already knew about that after reading up on it in the clit.com website. She asked me if I already knew and I said I did. We also talked about my skin picking which contributes to the general low self-esteem. She mention Cognitive behavioural therapy which I have read about but too many medical proffessionals don't seem to have a clue about it so I was pleased she did. She showed me a book called "Overcoming low self-esteem", by Melanie Fennell and I have to get hold of a copy myself so I'll order one from Amazon. I have to keep a record of thoughts, feelings and situations just prior to getting an urge to pick and record them down so we can start to work out a pattern or something. She also asked me what things I'd come up with so far to help stop me picking. Most things I have come up with are only any use when I'm here at the computer desk, things like having a blob of blu-tac to mess about with or an elastic band to keep my hands busy and also putting an elastic band around my upper arm and twanging it hard if I get an urge to pick that area. They've worked to an extent and reduced the number and amount of picking but they haven't eliminated it because I pick at other times too when these measures are useless like in the shower and away from the comp desk etc.... She also talked about kegels. I told her I already did those when I remembered. She told me to try a general muscle relaxation technique where I lie down without other destractions, tense all the muscles in my feet and legs for about 10 seconds and then let them fully relax and then work up the body so to speak and then do that same thing with my pc muscles and do it just before dilating. She also asked about things I do generally. I told her about my artwork and she asked what type of thing I did. I always have some photos of my work in my handbag so I got them out and let her look at those, lol. She told me to keep on with the dilator #2, the one I'm on now and see if I could work over the next couple of weeks into getting comfortable with that one and moving up to #3. Not sure I'll manage it in 2 weeks but I'll work on it. I'll update you more when there is more info to update you with.
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