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haha...thanks for all the well wishes and advice through PM...
Just to let you know, I followed one of the posters' advice and took her out of town and we went on a long 4 mile uphill hike..it was brutal and great and she was feeling better...she stopped going to the bathroom 50 times a day, and the pressure in her abdomen and genital area somewhat ceased...More importantly, her mood improved...it was a good week for her...less anxiety, etc...
also, her blood tests and ultrasound came back totally NEGATIVE....
THEN....
On Monday, she went to her last 'therapist' session...
On Tuesday, she was a wreck again...admittedly, less of a wreck, but enough to the point where our youngest son (who is 6) said "something is wrong with Mommy"...and "Mommy's not feeling well"...
OY - setbacks are part of it I guess...
She doesn't take any meds, but she did take some pills a few weeks ago for what the Dr thought was a UTI...She has an OK diet - doesn't eat all that much and doesn't drink enough water...I usually make us fruit protein shakes in the morning and I make dinner (meat, starch, veg)...she doesn't exercise AT ALL, and for the holidays I bought her a Hot Yoga class membership...THAT has to change and she's working on it...
Just brutal though because this is not what I signed up for....If that makes me callous and insensitive, then so be it...I could understand if she had a real organic issue, but I think it's a psychosomatic problem, which makes it more frustrating than anything else...
I didn't want to chime in, but having being diagnosed with virtually every mental issue under the sun, having had overwhelming psychosis and mental issues, and seeing as my "Prawn" thread is quiet enough , just my 2c.
Overwhelming physical activity is crucial, if one goes down the path of meds, all bets are off for a person.
Why do prisoners exercise so much? Not because they are bored, because it provides calm and perspective to the mind.
Mind controls the body, and body controls the mind-its a two way street, but serious exercise is the single best thing to balance these, it forces mind and body to work as one.
I could tell you it re-aligns your chakra, or or makes your aura better, or some crap, but I wont, because that's bollocks, its just a fact that strenuous regular exercise is "good" generally, for the mind.
At face value, this looks like a hoax, as it's hard to beleive an adult woman could be that out of tune with herself and desires, much less be so sexually repressed as to "be concerned " about fantasies from a catalogue.
Presumably she is aware, how men work, and the extraordinary number of teenage boys who happily bat off to a Victoria's secret catalogue?
So, she is a woman, who has "thoughts" of a sexual nature. Golly.
That aint the problem, the fact she is concerned by them is.
Unless she is Amish, or fundamentalist christian, I fail to see how this is even an issue, truly understanding how ones mind works is everything in life.
Control the mind, control the body-train the body, it works on the mind.