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...
It comes out of nowhere. You think everything is fine and then all of a sudden, a hand grips your throat and it feels like you can't breathe. It happens when the seasons change, when I'm inside all day, etc. But today was just bad.
I know that my anxiety is not realistic and that my brain is pinning it on things and people that it shouldn't. And then I get more anxious because I wonder if my brain is right. What if it is validated?
My doctor had be on 40mg of Prozac when I was on 20mg, but that made me so thirsty that my boss was irritated that I was spending a majority of my day in the bathroom and not on the sales floor when we have high theft, etc. He then cut me back down to 20mg and put me on .25 mg of Klonopin every 12 hours which isn't helping the anxiety and I'm going to call him tomorrow about it as I had an appointment today and he said he wanted me on that dose until I could get into see psychiatry (which is next month and a month for someone with anxiety and attacks is a long time with no relief). We tried Vistaril and I just cannot take the stuff. It either feels like taking 12 benadryl or does nothing at all, and my job is very demanding.
I'm depressed because I've been inside all day, sleeping. But there was nowhere else to go. I went outside and communed with nature for an hour or so because I love the animals and I like talking to them, even if they don't understand me. They tilt their heads and listen anyway.
I just need some relief. Anything at all. Ugh.
I know that my anxiety is not realistic and that my brain is pinning it on things and people that it shouldn't. And then I get more anxious because I wonder if my brain is right. What if it is validated?
My doctor had be on 40mg of Prozac when I was on 20mg, but that made me so thirsty that my boss was irritated that I was spending a majority of my day in the bathroom and not on the sales floor when we have high theft, etc. He then cut me back down to 20mg and put me on .25 mg of Klonopin every 12 hours which isn't helping the anxiety and I'm going to call him tomorrow about it as I had an appointment today and he said he wanted me on that dose until I could get into see psychiatry (which is next month and a month for someone with anxiety and attacks is a long time with no relief). We tried Vistaril and I just cannot take the stuff. It either feels like taking 12 benadryl or does nothing at all, and my job is very demanding.
I'm depressed because I've been inside all day, sleeping. But there was nowhere else to go. I went outside and communed with nature for an hour or so because I love the animals and I like talking to them, even if they don't understand me. They tilt their heads and listen anyway.
I just need some relief. Anything at all. Ugh.
I have to call my doctor tomorrow and explain the anxiety attacks. Today I was fine and then it just ambushed me out of nowhere. I'm hoping he'll move me to a low dose of xanax for the time being so it's still a low dose just something stronger. That group of drugs are the only medications that have ever really helped with attacks and bad anxiety. I just hope he helps.