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 started taking 20mg of Prozac two weeks ago today and the side effects are making it unbearable. I take it before bed and almost immediately feel awfully anxious with stomach issues and dizziness/headache. Then I usually start crying uncontrollably, either due to fear, frustration, or the meds. For anyone that has taken Prozac, have you experienced these side effects? Should I push on for two more weeks until I see if they start to help or should I stop taking them? They are making my anxiety debilitating. (I've already tried lexapro and zoloft...they didn't help)
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I've been feeling like I don't matter my wife the other day instead of telling me she was having a pain day when I went to have sex with her she tell me afterwards that she having pain day due to her fribromyalgia and making feel like shit afterward saying she has a list of things from past 9 years of thing for me to do and is always adding more and more to this list and talk...
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Nationalday.com proclaims September 28th as Self Aware Day. I took a few snaps of various core values lists and tried to pick my top five core values (kinda hard to only pick 5). But here are my top picks. Feel free to list a few of yours too:GodLovePeaceStability Compassion
You've taken the important first step in writing it out.
Stay hydrated. Consistently stay hydrated. Keep a daily journal to see what works when.
Best wishes as you find your better balance.
Take a walk. Distract your thoughts.
These medications take at least 4 weeks to see the benefits.
You may experience some discomfort for the first few weeks. But try to hang in there. I know that is hard to do!
Check with them before stopping taking them.
I do not take meds for my anxiety but tried Prozac several years ago when I was going through a particularly tough time and it made me feel crazy. If I took it at night, I couldn’t sleep. If I took it in the day time, I felt exhausted. It also seemed to kick up the anxiety but that may have been more related to stress and not getting good sleep. Sometimes those general types of side effects from the medication do pass with time. For me, I gave it a couple of months and gave up on it. Meds affect people differently so in my mind I think you can’t really know how they affect you until you are on something for a month or so. The exception to that would be if you are having serious side effects like an allergic reaction, delusional thoughts, etc. Then it should be stopped but still with a discussion with a doctor