Thank you for your welcome. I like your profile picture. I am a new member to this site, having suffered from anxiety for 7 years now, my worst period was in January 2006 after my dad died who died 3 months after my mum passed away. I had a massive anxiety attack in the car as a passenger driving along the motorway (Freeway) when I had a real fear that I was going to jump out while the car was moving and I have always been uncomfortable travelling since, I also get generalised anxiety and slight OCD. My anxiety manifests itself in cold sweating and feeling unreal like I am going to go mad. I can feel the adrenaline building up in my arms and it does scare me. I have recently started taking citalopram (Cipramil) again at 20mg after a 3 month break (before that I took it for 7 years). I found the site by chance whilst surfing the net. I am not sure how often I will view the site, but it is nice to know it is there and I will be doing the course provided. Regards Matilda x
Hi Thanks for your welcome messages. It is comforting to know that I am not the only one who feels this way.
I am particularly anxious at the moment as I have a training session in the city tomorrow this is over 15 miles away and I am very scared about being so far away from home and work. I have not been to the building before and I have not used this computer package before. I can't relax knowing that this is happening. I feel very restless. I am lucky in the fact that I am getting a lift, but I am still so scared of travelling there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have already had some help with this, but I am still scared about my trip to the city tomorrow. It is 15 miles away and I have to do a training course for work so I cannot get out of going, but I really wish it wasn't happening. I have thought about little else than travelling there for the last few weeks, that I feel really quite low. It doesn't help that I have only been taking my celexa for 2 weeks and I still don't think they have kicked in yet. I am lucky that I have a supportive family and I am getting a lift tomorrow with friends, but I still have this fear of jumping out of the car whilst it is moving or that I am going to panic in my training session and when I panic i can feel the adrenaline pumping around me, I hope that I am not going mad, I am worried that I will still be feeling like this at Christmas, which is normally my favourite time of year.
Thanks for all your messages of support. I just thought I would let you know that I made it to the city and I am now home watching TV. I am glad that I have got it out of the way. I used some of the tips, visualising and chatting to my friends in the car. I also woke with a slightly new attitude in the fact that I knew that I was going to be anxious today, so I said "Bring it on" and I got through it. Phew
Thanks for all your messages of support and congrats for my trip to the city yesterday. I have had another very busy today visiting friends in a town a few miles away plus doing some last minute christmas shopping and going for a meal and I managed all this OK, but I wondered if I could just ask for some further advice. As I explained, a week and a half ago, I started back on citalopram (Celexa) after a 6 month break, prior to that I took them for 7 years(quite successfully). I did one week at 10mg and my GP advised me to go back to 20mg after one week, so I have been taking 20mg since Saturday, today is Tuesday and I still feel quite anxious (It feels like part of my brain is missing on the left hand side and also a little bit on the right side too, It also feels like there is adrenaline pumping through my arms and shoulders) I had a terrible nights sleep yesterday and I kept thinking that does this mean that I am depressed as well as anxious, am I getting worse, does this mean I am going mad and how will I get through Christmas which is normally so happy for me. So comforting to know you are there
Thanks for your reply. It might be that I am focusing on the negatives too much. I think that sometimes I spend too much time dwelling on things. As you said, if you don't like the tune change the record. Stuff always seems so much worse in the middle of the night. I do get very worried and I read the worry section on here which did help a little about changing from what if I to a positive statement, I have never thought about that before. I think that this is a great forum.
Hi Debora. You sound very much like me the way you suffer with your periods, I had a very heavy period one Christmas day and I am afraid I did have to give up and go to bed for a while as I had a splitting headache and dizziness. I think there has been some great advice from the girls here and if you do need to lie down for a while it is best just to be honest and say so. Fingers crossed that you are OK and that we are all OK for Christmas. Whilst we are having a ladies only discussion, does anyone else have weird (not scary) dreams a couple of days before their period? Best Wishes Matilda x
Hi Debora. I have been reading all the posts this week following your message. You and I are quite similar in a lot of ways, thankfully however, I am lucky to have a supportive husband. I too also say that I need to get better for other people rather than myself and I do find that I feel very guilty when I am anxious, which sadly at the moment is quite a lot. I tend to feel unreal when I am anxious which is scary. Following from another of your posts Santa bought my my monthly present on Christmas day and I am still suffering a bit now (tired and busy). I am finding this site such a great support though and I hope that 2012 is a good one for us all. Take Care love Matilda x
I am sorry to hear that you had a bad night, I too am up early as I want to get my food shopping done. I can really relate to your posts you are just like me as you sound very hard on yourself saying that you MUST get better. I say stuff like that all the time, I have suffered from anxiety for 7 years now, sometimes it is better than others but it always seems to be there somewhere. I can go out during the day and I work full time, but I am unable to travel any distance. All of the advice that people are giving you is hopefully helping me too. I would love to say just try and be kind to yourself and think positive but I know from experience that this is easier said than done. Like you I have to much time to "think" and I find it very hard to switch off. I am not doing anything for New Years Eve as it is not really my favourite time of year, we may play some board games but chances are we will be watching telly as usual. I would love to say that we will all wake up in 2012 and suddenly feel better wouldn't that be nice? but I guess all we can do is just keep plodding on. I am going to try and think of positive things about my day and write them down as Davit suggested and see if it makes any difference. if I were you, I would try and do the same. All the best Matilda x
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