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14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Think I'm dying.....all the time

TexanFemme,

I know exactly what you are going through. When I started with the panic attacks about a year and a half ago I walked around for like 2 months like a zombie pretty much constantly thinking my time was up. Now I may have a bad night or couple of hours every month or so. Then its the same thing, any small symptom ie. skipped heart beat, pain the head, feeling flushed and I automatically think something is happening or about to happen to me.

Tam

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Setbacks with chronic headaches

JGD84,

I wanted to know two things: Did you ever in the past 5 years take any long term medications? Do you feel that the journalling has been extremely helpful in helping you get to a place where you are confident in saying it is just the anxiety?

Thanks,

Tam

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

The Last Resort

I've been struggling with anxiety for 1 1/2 years. One night, it felt like a switch went on in my head and I feel like I have never been the same since. I had a major panic attack that night where I went to the hospital and another the next day where I went back. For the next two months I wandered around like a zombie, afraid almost all day and having thoughts about dying every hour at least. Since then I feel like I've tried it all: psychologists, naturopath, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, CBT, and just recently a psychiatrist who told me within 10 minutes of meeting him that medicine was my answer. I have been working so hard to beat this without medicine and I feel like I've come a long way. Now, I have a panic attack about once a month and throughout the rest of the month I may have some anxiety at any given time but I am nowhere near what I was a year and half ago so I feel like I should just carry on without the meds. I have one more thing to try and that is a referral to an anxiety disorder clinic coming up in a few months. Maybe I should just wait to make the medicine decision until after I go to that clinic? Or maybe my problem is that I keep thinking that something is going to make it go away completely and I should just be happy with the progress I've made? I just feel like I know what it feels like to be worse than I am now and it really is horrible. I would rather stay like I am right now than risk taking medication and going back to that place that I was if the meds don`t work. Does this make any sense? What do you think?

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

The Last Resort

David and Davit,

Thanks for your replies. It's funny you should suggest excercise because that is another thing I started doing last year. It was interesting how all the other times I tried to excercise mainly to try and loose weight it was so hard to incorporated into my life but last year when the anxiety started I tried exercise again but that time with the focus on health and it was much easier to stick with. I have stuck with it and am happy to say to I go to the gym about 2-3 times each week. That I think has been one factor that has helped me improve dramtically. To answer Davits question, no the doc did not diagnose me with anything but you are right, that would've been something to consider. I think he thinks that the meds would simply help to end this problem once and for all, the bit of its that left I guess. So, yeah I continue to weigh out whether or not I need meds for that bit of it thats left or just continue my natural path to recovery. Perhaps I do keep with all the things that have helped me this far.

Thanks again,

Tammy

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Feeling Motivated!

Christine,

Very interesting! You are the second post that I've read in the last couple of days that has said that acknowledging the anxiety for being just that anxiety is what caused it to go away. The times that anxiety starts to creep up on me is when I start to feel things and I start convincing myself that something is wrong. Even though I try to tell myself that it is just anxiety it is not so effective because I am not completely convinced about that statement. But I have definitely had times where I could confidently tell myself that it was just anxiety and it went away. So, I guess the next question would be: how can more confidently tell ourselves that it is just anxiety so that we actually believe it and feel relief???

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Early morning on Christmas

'Twas the early hours of Christmas morning and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But one young girl with anxiety who decided it would be okay to have a few glasses of wine was up paying the price for that decision. I have not had alcohol for about a year so only a few glasses was quite enough for me. I woke up about an hour ago very hot and heart racing and naseated. I can connect it to the wine but my mind is still worrying. It's almost like my mind cannot differentiate between symptoms. Sometimes I can't tell whether I am hungry or sick in the stomach or whether I am shaking because I am cold or afraid. Anyone else get like this? Just needed to get this out.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Early morning on Christmas

Thank you for the replies. I finally fell asleep after I wrote my message and woke up on Christmas morning feeling much better. It's amazing how after such a rough night I wake up and its almost as though it never even happened. Anyway, I feel like I don't want to have any drinks again anytime soon.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Horrible Anxiety

Leanna,

I am amazed at how much I can relate to what you said because I feel those same things. Sometimes I can go for as long as a month without the anxiety sometimes weeks without thinking about it and the weird thing is, I sometimes remember it and think things like "gee it's been a while without anxiety" and then boom it comes back later that day or the next day. It's like you said you were impressed with how "normal" you felt and then later had the attacks. Right now I too am on here in the middle of the night writing and checking in because I couldn't sleep and felt like I was scared of something or on guard and then my legs kinda tighten up but spasm at the same time. I can't go back to sleep or wake anyone up so I use this as a journalling tool as well and when I wake up in the middle of the night I go on here and write because this is how I let it out. But you are right about the way it comes on because its the same way for me too. I can start to fidget and then I rub my head for sore spots or abnormalies (which makes the anxiety worse if I think I've found something) but I do these things so much when I am starting to feel anxious that my husband knows those signs. Lastly, I have to agree with the others about the lack of sleep piece and the too many things going on. When I go and talk to my psychologist those are two themes she noted that occur in my discussions. Its almost as though when you are tired your mind is too weak to fight the anxiety off.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Alternative Therapies

AmJ,

I have it in the spray. I got it because a friend said her husband used it and said it worked for him. I've used it at times of anxiousness and noticed that I felt better after but I couldn't be sure if it was the spray that did it or not. I have also used it at times of high anxiety/panic and it did nothing. I felt like I had nothing to loose and bought it and I keep mine in my purse. But like I said it did make me feel better after I took it during times of minimal to moderate anxiety. Let me know if it works for you or not (if you decide to try it).

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 39

Stress

I have been told over and over again that anxiety can be due to stress but I just can't pinpoint whats stressing me out. I guess it could be a number of things but when I think about what could be stressing me out nothing seems to strike out at me. Is there something I can do to help me identify exactly whats bothering me?

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