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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Severe Anxiety

mystie
mystie
Do any of you have or had continuous all day, everyday anxiety for months or more? My anxiety is so bad everyday all day it is ruining my life. I literally shake most of the day and cant stop my mind racing. Im getting so weak and tired from the meds and the lack of wanting to leave the house. I don't sleep well but all I want to do is just lay down in fear.
Ive been on numerous SSRIs over the years which clearly helped the anxiety but werent working for my depression. Then they diagnosed me as bipolar and I had lithium with a few others along the way that Ive stopped taking, including the lithium, because of the side effects. Now Im on Mirtazapine for the depression and Seroquel. The Seroquel was for the anxiety but it is not helping my anxiety at all and is making me really dopey, dizzy, and drugged out in the day.
Im terrified of anything and everything and I dont know what to do. I dont see the pdoc till Thursday and lately all the meds they try are making me too messed up and not helping my depression or anxiety. Im really getting ready to give up on this life. I dont know how much more freaking out I can take.
Im hoping I can take the Mirtazapine and go back on something like Effexor for the anxiety.
What do most of you take for your anxiety?
I need help.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I think that feeling you are experiencing is the most common one of all. I found that if you have someone to talk to about how you feel, it helps so much. Try talking, it is amazing how much you get off your chest.
vix82
vix82
you'll get through this chick, the more you worry that it will never go away, the longer it'll stay, you must believe it will pass.

i was were you are now a few years ago, i mean i just wanted to die, i prayed everyday that i would have an accident, or just die in my sleep and clonazepam/klonopin and mirtazipine changed my life for the better.

i still have shit phases, but on the whole i'm better, trying to get off the clonazepam to try for kids, its a pain, cos its addictive and there are side affects, but hey, i have a hell of a lot to thank it for!

i say if your feeling so bad, and your in hell and dont know where to put yourself, then you should try anything to get better, worry about getting off it another day, and concentrate on gettin well.

gud luck x
deleted_user
deleted_user
Mystie,

you're not alone in this problem. I 've been having continuous anxiety attacks for the last 4 months. I am so tired that I cannot take care of my 2 little kids anymore. I cry all day. My life has become miserable. I rarely go to work, I am always on sick leave. I am scared to go out of my house. I am taking Bromazepam but it 's not helping anymore. The doctor gave me paxil. I am always dizzy and all I wanna do is sleep. Everybody tells me to hang on and I will be out of this. So what I can tell you is "hang on Mystie" and I hope both of us will be out of this soon.

Hugs,
Carli
mystie
mystie
thank you everyone for taking the time to give me great advice. This constant anxiety is pure torture. It just gets worse. Starting yesterday the pdoc added 75mg of effexor to hopefully help. In the meantime i continue to take my ativan, but i don't want to rely on taking them all the time. I hope the therapy that starts next week will help. I just have so much going through my head all at once it is frightening. Anything that can be worried about i do. I just feel like I've made a whole mess of my life. My biggest fear is having to go back to low paying retail work. It makes me so sick to my stomach. I feel like a big loser with a wasted life.
Lately I have been feeling more and more that death would be the only way to have peace from this.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm sorry you are having problems. I have had anxiety all my life and I have had times that were bad. Just take comfort from this support group which a lot of us didn't have thru the years. Good luck.
deleted_user
deleted_user
When I was on Serequel, I was like a zombie. I hated it.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I take Klonopin, 3 times per day...and it has saved me.

This week I have had extreme anxiety...all day, everyday. Talking to my therapist is what gets me through it.

Do you have a therapist?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I've been in this situation in the last few months too. I couldn't even concentrate to look after myself as my axiety was spell bounding. I couldn't eat, sleep or wash and i was tried on all sorts of medication, they have now put me on seroquel and paroxitine but i haven't seen a difference yet but it's early days, i also take beta blockers. I hope you get there in the end and as well as the medication try and be positive even if you can only think about one positive thought, keep hold of it and repeat it often to yourself. Just try and keep that fight in you somehow.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Seroquel can both help and worsen anxiety because antipsychotics are capable of causing akathisia. Remeron is a great medication for anxiety in 15mg or less doses. Remeron took my anxiety away for a couple weeks, but worsened my depression, even though it is used for major depression. Remeron often makes people have fits of rage as a side effect.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yes I had that for 2 continuous years my insides were shacking like mad all the time. I became very quiet an never did much of anything. I went through 3 mths was the longest with no sleep at 15 minutes a night. read my journal if you like you are not alone an there is hope. have a good day

Raytch