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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George70101 12/23/2012

I haven't been around much for a few months because my son passed away in mid-September from depression...I sent him to Cancun in the hope a weeks vacation with his best friend would cheer him up...But it didn't, in fact he took his own life in his hotel room by taking a bunch of pills he bought in a Mexican pharmacy. He was 30 years old and was bi-polar I for about the last 10 years, and on Seroquel, Trazadone and Lexapro for about the last six years to treat his illness. His behavior was generally good but he was becoming more argumentative and confused...He doctor and therapist were not fully aware of his declining mental condition because my son was not honest with them because he was afraid they would have him committed, so he pretended everything was fine during weekly visits....Now I'm starting to suffer from depression and I've never been depressed before, I only had moderate anxiety from all this.....I've recently had two spiritual experiences with him where he spoke to me, and on one other occasion at work I was outside crying, started to have a terrible panic attack blood pressure went way up bit time..the wind blew and a few seconds later I felt normal again..panic attacks usually take a few hours to overcome..this one took a few seconds..it was my sons guardian angel helping me i'm sure of this..i can't take anti-depressants because they make me so sick..so that's out of the question..So now is it psychiatrist or priest for me? please help me..please tell me ..its christmas and I think I'm losing it

deleted_user 12/23/2012

I am so sorry for your loss. I can't even begin to understand how you must feel right now. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Can you do both? Is there some reason why you must choose one or the other? I think the more people you talk to the better.

George70101 12/23/2012

I have issues with psychiatris because if you question them, don't take the first medicine they recommend or ask for a benzo they treat you like second class citizens...there practice is just guess work anyway.

waiting4thesun 12/23/2012

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine what you are going through but I can imagine your feelings are normal given the circumstances. I would also recommend both. If you are not comfortable with the psych doc then go to another one until you find the right one. In the mean time while you are looking for the right one you may want to see a priest and see if you can get some comfort there. My heart goes out to you.

George70101 12/23/2012

psychiatris have like a one track mind..its all srarts with an SSRI with them that's all they know then they want adjust from there with dosage increase of more serotinin..that's all they do..when I tell then I can't tolerate lexapro or zoloft thet say stuff like 15 year old girls take this medicine etc, etc..So basically if you can't tolerate an SSRI they can't help me they say...bunch of quacks.. Then when i tell them I can only tolerate a benzo they get mad like i'm doctor shopping for Xanax..when they know my history and the fact my son just died..nut they don't care..in virginia its really hard to get xanax or another benzo.

deleted_user 12/24/2012

I'm so sorry for your loss. Seek out whoever you feel most comfortable speaking with - whether it be a therapist, grief counselor, priest, etc...Just please do talk to someone - even if it is just a close friend that you can talk/cry to. In this time, you definitely need a support system.

I'm also sorry that you have had bad experiences with psychiatrists - I promise they are not all like that. Mine has actually been very open to me handling my anxiety in a more natural way. He supports it completely and agrees with me that SSRIs are handed out way too much to people that could benefit more from therapy.

Hugs to you, and I hope you find the healing that you need.

George70101 12/24/2012

Thanks I feel better just getting some stuff off my chest about how inflexible doctors are ..And I know why its because there afraid of DEA oversight of benzos because a couple of doctors were honest enough to tell me..now a days every single prescription thats written in our names gets put in a DEA accessed data base that doctors also check for possible abuse..I know this because one truthful doctor showed it to me...With benzos and oxycontin prescriptions drawing special attention from the DEA..but they could careless about hom many mg of an anti-depressant you take..because the DEA knows they can't be abuse..so now I know the truth...and so do you...doctors are affraid of the government.

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