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New to this group

Welcome. I think you have come to the right place for help!
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Overwhlemed

Thank you very much to both of you for being so kind as to reply to me. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the support!
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Panic and depression

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?? 
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Goal for today.

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...
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Overwhlemed

When I make lists, I get anxious. The more the list grows the more anxious I get. But I do understand the idea of breaking big goals into small ones. 
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Panic and depression

I am glad for you that you can live with it. 

I am working on being okay. I am trying to balance what I need to do for my depression and what I need to do for my anxiety...
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Relapse

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...
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Hello everyone.newbie with panic disorder/anxiety

I would love it if I had something helpful but I do not. But I did want to drop in and say hello :)
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Fear of Fear

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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Worrying about his health

Thank you for the great advice. I can see how some of those strategies could work.