
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...

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after a 5 year build up of panic attacks, varying in degrees, controlled-ish by drugs. my panic has always been agorphobia. some places more likely than others, you know. after med adjustments, i got stability, and slowly under supervision withdrew from 300mg effexor, 25mg at a time.
I had been off medication for 6 months, eating properly,staying fit etc when my weight started plummeting..i lost 2 stone, and happily bounced down the docs to tell him how well I was. They did the normal checks, physically fine. I was sent away - nothing wrong. I had entered an unrecognised manic stage, absolutely textbook with retrospect. I`d two pretty, no, very severe PAs since the docs, both were extreme/stress situations-one a funeral,one a bank meeting for a client-roadworks etc..both times I had to run home with my tail between my legs, the meeting, i got my mate to take me back, did with extreme discomfort, safe in the knowledge my lift was immediately outside, i was ok on way home. The funeral was much nastier, even when I got home, I didnt think i would get a grip, but managed it.
The third happened on a nice sunny evening, my sister & I took our boys to see War of the worlds..ok piccies sometimes give me the shivers, but normally get absorbed...I remember thinking, on the way in-how lucky i was,and content..A lorry crashed in front of me, and i just crashed...9 month attack with slight drug induced re-spite..
Does anybody know what this is?
I had been off medication for 6 months, eating properly,staying fit etc when my weight started plummeting..i lost 2 stone, and happily bounced down the docs to tell him how well I was. They did the normal checks, physically fine. I was sent away - nothing wrong. I had entered an unrecognised manic stage, absolutely textbook with retrospect. I`d two pretty, no, very severe PAs since the docs, both were extreme/stress situations-one a funeral,one a bank meeting for a client-roadworks etc..both times I had to run home with my tail between my legs, the meeting, i got my mate to take me back, did with extreme discomfort, safe in the knowledge my lift was immediately outside, i was ok on way home. The funeral was much nastier, even when I got home, I didnt think i would get a grip, but managed it.
The third happened on a nice sunny evening, my sister & I took our boys to see War of the worlds..ok piccies sometimes give me the shivers, but normally get absorbed...I remember thinking, on the way in-how lucky i was,and content..A lorry crashed in front of me, and i just crashed...9 month attack with slight drug induced re-spite..
Does anybody know what this is?
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