My life is falling apart
November 3, 2008 1:37am
HI EVERYONE,
I HAVE BEEN HAVING A FEARFUL SITUATION FOR ABOUT 5 MONTHS, NOW.
MY HUSBAND GOT LAID OFF HIS JOB 4 MONTHS AGO, AND CAN'T FIND A JOB, …
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Getting anger out
July 23, 2008 10:19pm
July 23, 2008,
I have been very angry over my situation of my husband lossing his job. Was told by a counselor that it is natural for me to vent …
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Hi Shelan, thanks so much for your note on my story. there is lot I am not telling and it will take some time before I can. Just chatting about certain things send a fear so intense, it is inevitable that a Panic attack follows. today is my 2nd session for OCD Psychotherapy and I am already terrified of what i will have to discuss. I will share more with you later, but only if you promise me, it will not cause you anxiety or harm.. TTYL
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Close Panic Attacks
I have suffered from depression and anxiety for years. When I was with my first husband, I had s lot of panic attacks, and it got to where I couldn't leave the house. I have had anxiety on several jobs, and got sick to my stomach, and couldn't go back. 9 years ago I had several months of anxiety, and shaking, and couldn't work. I have been on Social Security, since 1997, and they said I culd only work part-time, in a low stress job. Now I don't work at all. Going to work with my computer.
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- Effexor Somewhat Helpful
- It worked for about a year, and than, as all medication I take, it quit working.
- Klonopin Working / Worked
- I have taken it for three years, since my sister died of heart attack. It helped for awhile, but not now, and I am whinnig off it per doctors instructions
- Meditation Somewhat Helpful
- I have started doing that the last year, and it has helped. Also I get a few massages, and meditate with the music. Sometimes it is hard to do, while I am in the middle of a stressful situationn.
- Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful
- I work a 12-step program, and get help with the group, and I have several meditation books. I write a gratidude list, and this helps. It is natural for me and others to think negative, but I know thinking positive is better. I usually have to go through a process, before I feel positive;getting angry, crying, talking to friends and just taking it easy.
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- I have started with a new therapist, recently, and I felt better last week when our session was done.
- Trazodone Working / Worked
- I have taken it for 6 years or so, and take it at night to sleep. The sleeping pills don't work for me. This is an anti-depressant, and I can sleep all nitght.
- Xanax Not Working
- Was on this nine years ago. I feel I had a nerveous breakdown, and toke it for 1 month. All it did was make me sleep, but I needed that. I went off it, and went to a treament center, and they withdrew me pretty fast, and the withdrawl was horrible. I will never take this again!
Close Financial Challenges
My husband lost his job 4 and a half month ago, and hasn't found another job. His uneployment checks were enough to keep us going, but he had to wait 6 weeks to get it. We are so behind on all our bills. 3 weeks ago his unemployment stopped because he is entitled to emergency unemploymnet till June of 2009. The congress passed the billl, but not the senate. So they said wait till after the elections, which was Nov. 4th, and he doesn't know when it will come. We havn't paid our rent. Praying.
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- Budgeting Not Working
- Cut back on groceries, no entertainment, stay home to save gas, Have went to food bank twice.
- Cut Up Credit Cards Not Working
- WE haven't had a credit card for 9 years. Had good credit than, and my husband got demonted on his job, and earned $5.oo less an hour. All we could pay was our basic needs. Of coarse the credit card company's kept adding interest, and added about $3,000.00 more on to what we owed.
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