Hi Lady, Wow!! Good for you for posting, I too had total anxiety while writing my "intro" ;) Glad you're here, nice to have someone "familiar" -- it's a tough road we face, but we can do it - baby steps.... Just wanted to say hi and thanks for being here and encouraging me to join up :) lots of luv to ya! -SCBB

hi my name is amanda, and i have had anxiety and panic attacks for a year know. it is hard for me to deal with it, because i have so many of them

Hello Lovey. Isn't it amazing how many of us - panic folk type - were smokers? Glad you are here. It is a tremendous feat we are all facing.. this self improvement stuff... quit smoking, get real with the anxiety stuff... This is good stuff... You will build miniatures. We will work that out right here. Really.

I€™m stressing out just trying to write this! Gosh Darn it€¦ :8o: what is one supposed to say about him/herself €¦OK€¦ the physical facts as they are today is that I€™m a 36yr old female. Married 11yrs, w/ 2 girls, 8 and 3. I live in a rural neighborhood w/ my mother-in-law, 18 yr old tattooed & pierced niece, 3 cats, a dog and a rat..LOL.. I have been a sufferer for as long as I can remember.. At least cognitively since I was about 17.. In hindsight I see it preceding that to around 8 yrs old €¦ I was €˜officially Dx€™d as Agoraphobic, Bi-polar, and Depressed at around age 18 In this €˜current€™ time period of my life, One of the most life effecting things there is that the older girl has €˜issues€™ that I (and €˜the house€™) are having a real hard time dealing with. She has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) she has also been dx€™d with ODD (Oppositional Defiantcy Disorder) I€™m sure she is starting to develop co-disorders as well. And she suffers mild petimal seizures. Her behavioral €˜issues€™ cause interference with school, home, relationships€¦ just everything. And over the years has come to affect everything about me as well.. Other things €˜major stress€™ me out as well, I think probably more common in nature.. Finances, Relationships, Health etc€¦ The daily anxiety & stress has increased a bit as The Hubby & myself quit smoking 3+ weeks ago€¦(which is how I came here.. Thru a posting from Ann-Marie, at the quitters support forum.)€¦When I was planning my quit, I asked the doc specifically for wellbutrin (Zyban) as it had 3 benefits.. helped curb cravings, depression and is prescribed for ADHD as well€¦ Well I took those meds for about a year before even seriously being able to plan my quit. I think that the meds helped me start to €˜feel€™ better.. And I needed to feel better in my head b4 I could take on such a challenge.. ya know? Other than this last year w/ the wellbutrin (really being prescribed for something else) I only took meds (as it pertains here) one other time in my life. It was only about 6 yrs ago. That was Prozac and Lithium.. but that was very short lived.. This sounds goofy.. But I basically stopped taking the meds cause my primary Doctor (at the time) wanted me to see a phyciatrist. Which I€™m sure would in fact be a good idea.. IF I co