Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I've been a yo yo for 2 weeks since a new guy at work got hired. I have social anxiety bad at times. I have been off Effexor for 5 months but had my psychiatrist put me back on last week. It was stressful but manageable at first but the last few days I have almost lost control. Sometimes talking about with someone will make me feel somewhat normal or calm again but then I will wake up super anxious and very unsure of myself. Today I was super anxious and then seemed to shut down emotionally and forget how to interact with my coworkers who I've known for years. I've convinced myself medication won't change my thinking process which is new people won't like me as much as someone else. I am usually fine in a familiar situation but freak out with mixed company or even with a friend and their friend. My mind is all over the place and I don't know if it is just worry or something chemical. I am seeing my psychiatrist again Wed. but I'm scared that at best I may find a dosage that helps some but will never be able to interact with new people again. No matte how many people tell me I'm liked I can only think I'm a good back up. I so hope this an effect of my situation at the moment and not being on my medication but I would have some freak outs even when on it. Any advice or help would be so helpful. Thank you!
Mike1975
I had been on Effexor for several years beforehand and had no apparent side effects being slowly weened off it. It has never seemed quite this bad before where I was afraid I needed a hospital. Maybe I was having panic or anxiety attacks too I don't know.
deleted_user
Aw you sound so much like me, I totally understand. I'm on Effexor right now too, and it does make it easier but I still don't feel normal. Maybe when you get yourself together you can say Man, sorry if I was weird last week, I wasn't feeling well. Hopefully that can save you some embarrassment. Hang in there.
deleted_user
Mike1975, have you heard of Cymbalta? It is also an NSRI (and hopefully slated to go generic by December or so). It helped me immensely for 7 years before my MD unwisely bumped me over onto Effexor (which did not help me at all - nor my brother). I had thought that I read somewhere that Effexor may work better for women than men. This info is not validated, however. Hang in there, you are in my prayers.
rskb3
I am sorry that you are having a hard time right now. It takes a while for medication to start to build up in your system to start working. Unfortunately for me the anxiety is so bad that medication alone doesn't work for me I have to try to use my coping skills and try to keep myself busy so I don't have time to think about how I am feeling. some days are easier to get through than others. I hope that things get better for you.
Mike1975
Thank you everybody. I actually calmed some tonight until one good friend reminded me I decided to go off the med and not the doctor(which I had explained to her but said I wish he would have warned me of relapses,etc.). And another friend who is having personal issues on facebook who I was trying to support "went of the grid" for a day and then came back all positive and posing on his page. But read my email asking for a simple "hey" and couldn't bother to do that after days before we had been trying to help each other. Sorry for rambling but it is just more stress I don't need right now.
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