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13 years ago 0 4027 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Guy,
Posting, and relying on friends, make the support you get like a grounding or emotional shock absorber
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Thanks for the update CdnGuy, sorry to hear that your anxiety and depression has been worse as of late. Be sure to discuss this with your physician and also if you have any questions or things you want to tell your doctor write it down so you remember when you are there.  Continue to work through the program and post any questions you have about it. 
 
Know that you are not alone, we are all here for you. 
 

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Hey all. It's been a while since I've been in here. The anxiety and depression has gotten a lot worse. I'm trying to practice what I know of CBT, but the physical symptoms of feeling like my nerves are on fire, hot and cold sweats, trouble sleeping and eating, almost always cold. Those things make it very hard to focus. I went to the doctor and I'm on Celexa now. It's going to take awhile to work I guess. He wants to see me in about a week and half.
 
I think it's the waiting that's freaking me out. Waiting for the house to sell, waiting for my marks to come back from the exam, waiting for things to pick up at work. I've done just about all I can with the house. I have some more cleaning and sorting of things to do. I'm having a garage sale this coming weekend. It was overwhelming to think about, so I asked a neighbour for some help. They're going to help with the yard sale. Doing work makes me break into cold sweats and I get very shaky and feel like I'm going to pass out. Then I sit for a bit and it lightly subsides for literally a second, then it's back again.
 
I try going for walks, reading, it doesn't help any. Is there a medication that can tone the anxiety down? Just enough so that I can get my focus back and stop feeling like this all day every day? Maybe I need to throw myself into the program some more.
 
My greatest fear is that I'm going to lose my sweetie. We were talking about the house selling (or not selling as the case may be) and that I was afraid if it takes too long, we might not be able to get refinanced. I feared that we might lose the house, and then the back would go after our new house and we'd lose that too. (I learned that's not the case later.)I asked her to think about coming back here. She said there was no way. It made me feel like an option to her. The conversation ended with her saying she couldn't do this right now and I was putting too much pressure on her.
 
We talked the next day. She seemed more positive and so did I. She said that we could rent the house out and I could sell a bunch of stuff and my truck and get down there. Maybe I can get a job in a camp up north and fly home to her on the weeks off. But she made it quite clear that she won't be coming back here. She said she'd be waiting for me there when I get there. That was yesterday. I haven't heard from her today. Apparently she has a meeting tonight, so I probably won't hear from her today. I'm freaking out.

I think I may need to get back into therapy as well. I don't know if I can afford it though.
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Hi Cdn.Guy:  Gee, I posted something awhile back about your exams, but I don't see it.  Probably didn't enter it properly. lol  Anyway, just to let you know I'm saying a prayer for your success!  You sound like you got it covered and will do very well.  Believe!
 
Your friend, Sunny
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Guy.

You only have to pass, you can review and study the parts where you go wrong after for your own piece of mind or if it is important to a job, in the mean time just pass. 
You sound like you are going to anyway.

Davit.
13 years ago 0 4027 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Guy,
To celebrate your success after your exam, let's crack open a cyber six pack and listen to...maybe Greenday's "I Walk Alone"...or you might think of something else.
 
Any newcomers have any suggestions on music for a member's celebration after he passes his exam(s)
 
13 years ago 0 4027 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Guy, I'd try to minimize the triggers for the anxiety.
Mine was the room, so I'd actually try to study in the classrooms of the exam site...Good luck!
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You're doing great...Good luck with the exams..I'm sure you will nail them..
 
 
Sid
13 years ago 0 376 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Guy... thanks for the update.  Lots of stress but you seem to be taking it so much more in stride.  Wow!  I'm impressed and inspired.  We really can do this! Imagine that ... wait... that's what you did, isn't it?  Imagined the possibility and used the tools to move toward it    I wish you great confidence for your exams (luck has nothing to do with it) !
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The being alone is getting better. I don't think I'll ever be as comfortable being alone as I am being with my sweetie, but I think I can get to a point where I can accept it and keep anxiety over it from running my life. I may be there already. It may get better still. Point is, apparently I'm going to live and be okay! LOL!
 
Now I'm just anxious about the exam I write next Wednesday. I've got a fair bit of studying to do, but I have also done a lot of studying on one of the subjects I failed last time, and feel much more confident in my knowledge of the subject. That subject is worth the most marks, so that alone should put me over the passing mark. The weekend will be spent reviewing the other subject I didn't do as well in so that I can gain marks there. With that in mind, I should be able to pass.

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