Hi, Anne-Marie, and congratulations on the launch of your new site.
I recently had a setback in my panic disorder. I was driving on I26 and witnessed a horrible accident. IPart of my panic disorder is from a bad car acident in 1994. It has left me disabled in mind, body and spirit.
So This recent set back sent me in a tailspin..I also gave up smoking very recently and my nerves are shot. The dr put me on Prozac again, and thid time I'm not going off it 'til it quits working.
Do you or anyone have any advice for my tailspin. What can I do to get my composure back long enough to get back into my groove of comfort?
Red
This message was edited by am on 1-24-02 @ 7:39 PM
AM, .
A tailspin is like all things are spinning and you visually lose it, so, dizzy would be an understatement.
Also when equalibrium is lost so go the thoughts. That is my own description of tailspin..its backwards spinning.
I usually look at what caused it to happen, then I can asess what my needs are so I can cope. If it is something new, different than I am being treated for than I mark it in my notebook. By the way, I am being treated by a PhD, who is in the office of my spine surgeon. Now you must know who I am. I have the worst spine they have ever sen..and that is not a "massage".
The accident caused this spine..I was 3 months post-op rom my 2nd spine surgery when the drunk driver on drugs hit my Mercedes-Benz.
So my association with this doctor is primarily pain related, but he is a pro with phobias. He got me to whee I am driving again..when I can, from a pain standpoint.
Recently with the QUIT and seeing the car accident thats when the tailspin hit me. I thought I would never come out of it. I got an emergency visit with the PhD, who is now seing me every two weeks, instead of 6 to 8 weeks. I am still wanting somone to pinch me to make sure this QUIT is not a dream, to assure me that it is real. I am so happy, but what to do about the other symptoms?
Red
hi, Anne-Marie and thank you for the warm welcome. This Ag thing would be pertinent in only one small part of this big panic thing. I sometimes see myself trapped under a truck or car. This visual just comes in front of my face for no particular reason. That is the old fear of cars again. And since seeing a new, bad, bad wreck, and with the World Trade Center disaster..wait a minute...I went to surgery that very hour that the WTC was bombed by the planes, saw it on TV, as we appraoched the OR. That was the day of the brow lift, upper bleph and laser job. I never will forget that day 9/11. So when I came out of surgery I was trembling so hard they wanted to keep me overnight..I said no and went home with a Rx for 10mg Valium. I took them but the trembling kept up for days. This trembling was from the gut.the whole body trembled. Not handshaking..but trembling..that was when it started. Then the Quit and the wreck. That is three. Tough not to make me regress.
I was orininally diagnosed withut the Agoraphobia. I see now whee the test question would pick up on that as i answered yes to the question.
So now I have establihed a timeline for my problem. 3 thins.
Dos quitting smoking evoke panic attacks in panic people..It did a little with me.but nothing I couldn't handle. I rather thought of the wreck..forgot about 9/11. Do all of these have to do with it? Is each a separate issue?
Red
Hi again and thank you for welcoming me to your wonderful site. I plan to take some time tomorrow to do a read thru. This is some heavy stuff and needs more than a browse. I like it here.
I have a fear of driving or being in a vehicle. It came from that car wreck in 1995. I have done well mastering the skills needed to drive again. I had to first start the car and drive a little ways and come home. Each successive day I went a little ****her, until, many monts later, I could drive to where I wanted and/or needed to go.
Actually my Doctors played a trick on me, which worked wonders. They enrolled me in a Chronic Pain course at the local University here. So I had to drive in rush hour traffic..Oh, I still don't drive in rush hour traffic..but I did it to get to that class that I so needed desparately.
I am still not comfortable in a vehicle, and if I could jump out and be safe I would. hair raising driving here..It is bad..and each time I leave the house I assume I will never come back alive. Will I ever get over this?
Red
Hello and thank you again for your gracious welcome.
I would like to say that I found out a lot about myself when I quit smoking. I needed a plan of attack..and had to go thru some steps to remind myself of a process I used for something else.
You must start at the very beginning, and make a list of the good things and the other side is the bad or negative things. Then I needed to have a reason for not doing or doing as the case may be. Set forth goals in accordance to their importance and a time frame to do each one.
I had to desensitize myself in order to drive again. Each days drive had to be in my comfort zone..because if I had a Panic Attack from that day..I would have to go back to the beginning. Not like smoking..where you could just dismiss the slip and keep going. This was a very definite plan..and we all know how important it is to drive with your wits about you.
With each new experience, wether it be driving again, or quitting smoking, you need a plan, an unsinkable plan, neat and tidy,written in stone.
Red
It was real rough being adopted and having parents who were not from the same gene pool. I was the alien.
I was scared stiff as a child when I was introduced to some one ot had to speak in front of someone.
In reading my birth mothers' book, she made mention of the very same things as I have wrong with me..in the psych profile and the physical attibutes as well. Isn't this amazing?
When I was young and well into my 30's before it was "OK" to go to see a dr about these kind of things. What could have been done for me and does this affect my Panic Disorder of today.
Red
AM: This "notebook" is full of isolated incidents mostly healthcare related. This kind dr. will go out on the limb for me to see that I get what I need as far as treatment, meds, therapies, tests and more. He even gave me lots of good ideas about tracing my birth mother.All this and he treats me too !
There are no major new problems, ao the notebook gets replaced PRN. I do not keep it.
Sandi
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