Who has CBT buddies?

Hello! I hope to find you all on CBT buddies as well sometime. Looking forward to making some new friends and supporting one another. X000X.~ :p

It works!

I was born in Poland and raised in Gdansk for 5 years myself! What a samll world! Keep up the positive attitude and good luck to you always.~ Maggie (Malgosia). ;p

Zoloft anyone???

I was just wondering if most people here find that anti-depressants have helped them more than not? Thanks...

Who has CBT buddies?

Just wanted to take this minute to let everyone know that the CBT feature does in fact work, and a few of us have already appeared 'online' and chated with eachother. Take care, and log on whenever you have a chance. Let's help eachother out! :)

Who has CBT buddies?

Hey all! I hope you all noticed and launched the new instant messaging feature here. I hope we can find a way to find eachother because there are SO many duplicate names it's almost impossible to figure out who is who in the end. Apparently this feature offers to add contacts by email addresses as well, hopefully we can figure out a way to do that or something of the sort. The feature seems pretty neat though, with emoticons and all. Hope to see you all online soon. XoooX~

Panic Center Announcement : Our new CBT Web-Based Instant Messenger!

Hello Everyone! I'll be online as well, feel free to add me. :)

Fear of Mental Illness

Hi, I just wanted to say that it's true- many of us have been down this road. I have the same immense fear, but about being bipolar. I have looked back on past events and nearly convinced myself that certain things I have done or said in the past can better be explained by a bipolar disorder. I have made myself sick from the stress about this. I have felt incredible amounts of doom, panic, depression because of this. I have literally thrown myself into full blown panic attacks even at home (without realizing it at the time), which only made me feel even more 'out of control' and frightened, convincing myself furthermore that I am absolutely losing my mind and will land up alone in an asylum forever. This is my biggest fear, so I don't even notice I am having multiple panic attacks in the midst of all my worries either. I am far too focused on what is going to happen to me, where am I going to land up, how I will loose my entire life, etc... I could write about this one issue for hours, as I have struggled (and am still struggling with it) very often. Instead, let me just tell you that everything will be alright. It has to be. We will all make our peace with our fears eventually, nothing lasts forever- not even panic! Stay strong within yourself, and don't give into the obssessive and anxious thoughts. It's the worst possible thing for you, do not empower your automatic negative thoughs and fears. Also, let me just add that I used to be horrified about every physical symptom and it's potential diseases in the 1'st year of my Panic disorder, despite what anyone told me, I was right- they were wrong. I was very worried for myself. As it turns out, nothing was physically wrong with me, it took many, many, tests and doctors for me to finally begin trusting and believing I was okay. Now here I am worrying I may have a mental illness; making myself sick for days at a time with worry. Then it occurs to me once in a while, what if this is the same thing as when I was worried about my physical self, except now I am obssessing about my mental health? It's hard to really wrap your mind around this thought and just trust, as 'what if' thoughts enter your mind. But I just think about all the time I have wasted worrying about my physical self back then, and how

The length of a panic attack

When my anxiety level is ridiculously high, or following panic attacks I also tend to feel really high or brain fogged. Sometimes I'm even derealized for hours and hours, apparently it is common and nothing to worry about if you are a panic sufferer. Keep well. Try and not let those feelings throw you back into panic again, give yourself some time to recover instead. Just try and 'flow' with the feelings instead, I know it's difficult and scary- but it's the only way. Take care.

The length of a panic attack

Quick question. Sometimes I have extreme anxiety in the mornings for hours, and eventually I take an ativan in hopes of bringing my anxiety level down. Most of the time it works, but there are days when it seems that the ativan is barely doing it's job. I feel the side effects of it (high, drowsy, etc) but I am still very anxious on/off. I notice that I feel more anxious when I am having scary thoughts about a mental illness, and then when I take an ativan and I still can't stop those thoughts- I begin to feel even more scared and panicked. I am guessing this is because between the 'high' feelings from the ativan and worries about having a more serious mental illness, I begin to think that I feel high because of something else. Does anyone else get this? Anyone very sensitive to these meds at times too? It's almost like I forget I am on ativan and think I am feeling these high and surreal feelings as a result of another problem...and I start to think that I am DEFINITELY going to lose my mind or self control THIS time. Also, sometimes I begin to worry that if I am still somewhat anxious on the ativan that that's proof right there that there must be something else wrong with me. Maybe I should increase my dose, but naturally I am afraid to when I already feel messed up enough. Thank you for reading.

What's Your Goal ?

My goal is to make it to my doctor's appointment on Jan 30th, and do my first injection of treatment. Wish me luck!