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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Sunshinegirl0228
Sunshinegirl0228

Hi, I am Kisses I am 26 years old. About 3 years ago I was diagnosed with Bipolar and GAD. I take Lithium, Zyprexa, Prozac, and I have Ativan and Gabepentin prn. So thats my background. My problem is......my anxiety, duh. It's become a problem lately, especally when I am home alone, except now. I get nerovus and panicky and  I look for someone to call or somewhere to go. I take a gabepentin and it doesnt help. My anxiety has been up all day today. I went to my sister's fro dinner and left within an hour because my anxiety. I dont know how to fix this. Even if i try to distract myself, it ony goes for so long. I cleaned my room and teh kitchen today. Anway, anyone have advice on how to handle my anxiety?

Tired
Tired
Read self help books on CBT or go to a therapist that specializes in anxiety.
Sunshinegirl0228
Sunshinegirl0228
I see a therapist and have several books about anxiety
bullito
bullito
this shows how ignorant I am and yet how bold. I go to Wikipedia and gabapentin is used to treat nerve induced pain, says nothing of anxiety. I do not want to talk about my worst moment but the truth is medicine will be effective when facing a small army of anxiety soldiers, not the whole Persian Anxiety Army. how did the whole Persian Anxiety Army got into your head? For me Ativan does the trick but it takes a while -- one hour -- to work. And you have to be careful mixing all these medicines. I am bipolar, lithium took care of that. I have generalized anxiety, plus anticipatory anxiety plus catastrophic thinking plus insomnia. of this last four Ativan must take care of. I try to wait till 8pm so that by 10pm I will pretty much be asleep helping myself with melatonin in hard times. but when it gets bad, it gets bad. is the spinning wheel of catastrophic thought. it is the ever accelerating carrousel of every movie you ever saw in your life combined to the infinite due to that creative brain of yours. what to do then? well they gave another med Levox which works for ocd but these thoughts sometimes look like compulsions. thruth be told and me being the chicken s--t I am I do not know if I am going to take it. On the other hand I had some success talking myself into reason. there is no f---g way this is real. and fight it like that until it works if it works this time. I was joking with my daughter who was just here. somebody is going to comment hurry up you are not writing a novel this is a forum to help people. Welcome to our humble house.
samiiex
samiiex
When ever my anxiety is bad I do the 5-4-3-2-1 thing what you do is you look round you an see 5 things you can see 4 things you can touch 3 things you can hear 2 things you can smell and 1 thing you can taste it helps you get grounded an you also have to take deep breaths it works for me hopefully it may help you x
Sunshinegirl0228
Sunshinegirl0228
Thanks. I've tried 54321 and grounding and at times it does help but not always
Sunshinegirl0228
Sunshinegirl0228
As for the gabepentin, it's use for anxiety is off label.
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