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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Wow, I don't know what to think...for about the last three weeks or so I have been feeling extremily anxious. I do not know why, it sucks. I get hot spells and it scares me. I was admitted to the hospital for a month about a year ago and I can't help but wonder if I am going to relapse again or if I have this anxieity due to the anniversary of my last anxieity attack, which put me in the hospital. Since March I have been feeling pretty good, and now I am all worrysome and anxious. Back to how I was about a year ago at this time. I know I have seasonal affectiveness disorder, so that might not be helping things.

Over Thanksgiving I went back to my parents home and I took double doses of my Prozac medication thinking I hadn't taken it for the day and then somedays I completely missed taking it. So, I am sure that hasn't helped much. I have spent the last week trying to get myself on track with my 40 mg of Prozac a day though. Any suggestions? I DO NOT like feeling like this, then again...who does??
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Is prozac the only medication you're currently taking? Maybe an anti-anxiety med would help you more. I think prozac just helps with depression. Sometimes people need specific meds for both. I really hope you feel better soon!
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I was on Vistaril...and I still have it, I am suppose to take it as needed...I have taken it maybe 3 times in the past 8 months, I normally take just 40mg of prozac in the morning-daily.
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Take the Vistaril. If you are supposed to take it "as needed" don't you think this might be a good time? The holidays are difficult enough to deal with and then add on top of it our anxiety, and there is a recepe for disaster. Take the time you need this season to be good to yourself. Ask yourself what you would really like this year for christmas, and then make realistic short term goals that will lead you there. Make that the one thing you have control over in your life. I stopped smoking that way. It was the only thing that I could control because everything else was so out of control.
Take the visaril, take a deep breath, and take a step forward.
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Well, I have had anxiety for years and do very well now.....breathing exercises have really helped me a lot.....when I first started them I was not putting in real effort so I thought "these don't work"....but if you really do them they do work....I prefer to naturally calm my body down....I have tried several meds and I just don't like them.....good luck and know that you are not alone!!
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