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...
As much as I HATE taking medicine of any kind, there have been times they've helped me and failed me. I'd say 50-50- in relation to AntiDepressants.
Now I'm at a crossroads again. I'm getting great therapy, become more healthy, working full time (as much as a I can) better diet, excersizing, taking vitamins, total 180 from my life before the panic attacks started in June.
I'm off the antidepressants
Well Fall is upon us, and I feel like I am making progress. I can go to work although the days are long and hard. I just try to get thru one day at a time. It's hard. Crying comes easy. There is a constant pressure on my chest, that varies in degree thru the day. There are days I come home shattered and crying, and days I go get a manicure. Sometimes I'm laughing at my dog when I take him for a run, and other days its all I can do to keep it together
My therapist thinks a lot of this is caused from me trying to "figure it all out" going to doctors, and searching for an answer, when the answer is inside of me and based in these techniques of CBT.
I know this is such a personal decision, but I'm considering trying something else still, either celexa or prozac. I did prozac 10 yrs ago for depression and it worked like a charm. I of course went off it, and tried to go back on and it made me super nauseous
So I tried Celexa and that made me nauseous too. But at the time I was dealing with chronic nausea and IBS, which I am not now.
I just know there isn't a magic pill. these all have possible and probable side effects.
The effexor was a total bitch to come off, and I'm still feeling a little withdrawal from that.
Do I wait a couple weeks, or take the plunge?
Now I'm at a crossroads again. I'm getting great therapy, become more healthy, working full time (as much as a I can) better diet, excersizing, taking vitamins, total 180 from my life before the panic attacks started in June.
I'm off the antidepressants
Well Fall is upon us, and I feel like I am making progress. I can go to work although the days are long and hard. I just try to get thru one day at a time. It's hard. Crying comes easy. There is a constant pressure on my chest, that varies in degree thru the day. There are days I come home shattered and crying, and days I go get a manicure. Sometimes I'm laughing at my dog when I take him for a run, and other days its all I can do to keep it together
My therapist thinks a lot of this is caused from me trying to "figure it all out" going to doctors, and searching for an answer, when the answer is inside of me and based in these techniques of CBT.
I know this is such a personal decision, but I'm considering trying something else still, either celexa or prozac. I did prozac 10 yrs ago for depression and it worked like a charm. I of course went off it, and tried to go back on and it made me super nauseous
So I tried Celexa and that made me nauseous too. But at the time I was dealing with chronic nausea and IBS, which I am not now.
I just know there isn't a magic pill. these all have possible and probable side effects.
The effexor was a total bitch to come off, and I'm still feeling a little withdrawal from that.
Do I wait a couple weeks, or take the plunge?
If you were ever depressed before and yoou recognize your own personal signs and therapy ,exercise , etc. are not working, then you will know.
chilling out is an art form that some of us forget about. nature can really soothe a stressed out mind if you let it.
Lexapro is another option if i go down that road.
Gotta go meditate!
thanks again for the replies.