As I mentioned before, I was in hospital not long ago for depression. Since then I have been working hard to have healthier habits and to heal from the depression.
One of my biggest fear is to get so depressed again that I end up back in the hospital or have to have shock treatments again.
Since I relapsed from the panic disorder and gad, I feel a bit more depressed. And that in turn scares me and makes me anxious. You can see how it isn't good.
I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience of anxiety and depression influencing each other??
to be honest, I am not sure how to reward myself. It's like my way of rewarding myself is to give myself the right to evade my feelings through distractions like movies and such...
I am not sure what exactly triggered the panic attack. I think it was partly because I had just been through 4 very intense week taking care of the kiddo and traveling with him. Plus, there is the whole needing to go for a job. On top of it, my therapist is gone until september. All that had gotten my anxiety higher.
Then I was giving the kiddo his bath and I suddenly had a pain in my chest. I thought, "what if I am having a heart attack?", then I got very very anxious and I thought "Oh no, I am having a panic attack!" I tried to talk myself down and tried distracting myself. But I panicked big time.
Now I am just trying to get back on kilter.
I hate admitting it but I had to have my medications upped… And I am not functioning as well as I want to...
I have been reading about Mindfulness. I can see how being mindful during a nice relaxed time would make you feel much better. But I find mindfulness while I am anxious or panicking quite hard to do.
I guess I am afraid if I am mindful of my anxious symptoms I would just panic even more.
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