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Panic Attacks – Advice needed – THANKS?
Feb 21st
Can anyone relate and offer kind words of advice for me right now? I have panic disorder, been diagnosed with depression (now dysthmia) and have terrible anxiety. A week before my period I start having intense anxiety that causes me to focus on my health and body and I feel that there is something terribly wrong with me (over the littlest body issues). My mind goes crazy and it turns into full blown panic attacks. Now I’m menstruating and having to fight off panic attacks for the past 3 days. My leg muscles ache and my muscles are so tense. It’s hard to shake this feeling. I’m tired (probably due to my new job and using all my energy dealing with anxiety). It’s a never ending cycle for about 2 weeks out of the month. I’m on meds (Xanax, Lexapro and Buspar) which seem to work well, but I have started to have break-through panic the last few months. I really need someone to talk to. Are there any good panic/anxiety chat rooms out there?
Thanks so much for your help. P.S. I’m 28 yrs. old
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4 years ago I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety and panic disorder. Lately I've had new symptoms arise.
Feb 18th
I am having bouts of really bad muscle and joint pain and weakness down my arms and legs, one minute its really bad, the next I am ok…I sometimes get bouts that last for days at a time. I mean really bad joint pain and aches. I know that depression can cause aches and pains but I dont have depression that I know of, just really bad anxiety problems….I dont feel anxious when I get the pains but the pains actually make me obsess and I start getting bad anxiety due to the aches and pains…I don’t know what to do, I am sick and tired of the constant worry and constantly worrying makes me tired alot, anyone relate at all?? Can generalized anxiety actually cause all of this muscle and joint pain??? HELP!!!! thanks…
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What am I? How do I talk to my therapist about this? (Kinda Long)?
Feb 17th
So I’ve been suffering with general anxiety disorder since I was about 9 (I’m 15 now). I wasn’t medicated for the panic attacks until three years ago, 0.25 Xanax. I recently started going to therapy for depression. My counselor is thinking i’m bi-polar. but I haven’t told her all of my symptoms. She hasn’t asked either but I don’t know how to bring it up in one of our sessions. I’ve only told one of my friends everything.
When I was young (3-9) I heard voices. It wasn’t like one person in my head telling me what to do, It was like…everyone screaming at once. Sometimes the same thing and I could understand them sometimes they all said something different and it was harder to decipher what they were saying. Around my ninth birthday they stopped or at least I can’t remember them then but recently (8 months or so) they’ve come back. It’s still like everyones screaming at once; almost never saying the same thing. I also started having these visions of sorts. almost hallucinations but not as vivid as everyone says they are. I can feel them but I can’t see them like there right in front of me but I see them in my head, if that makes sense? They really scare me. I can’t go to sleep at night because I can’t close my eyes because in my head theres this little bald man that sits at the edge of my bed with just his eyes peeking over and watches me. I have to open them to make sure he’s not really there.
Is this just because of my Anxiety or is it something more? Do I need to tell me therapist and if so, How do I tell her?
Thanks so much for your answers. they mean allot to me. I’m really kind of scared.
Thanks So Much guys! I had Anxiety before the voices and visions so I don’t think they caused it but schizophrenia can cause panic attacks. We will see, I guess. I don’t have a problem telling her and I don’t have a problem with people knowing, but I don’t want to freak my parents out. There having issues with the possibility of Bi-polar. I just didn’t know how to approach it. Just come out blunt and say it or…. I just didn’t know. My next app. is tomorrow morning, I guess i’ll tell her then. Thanks so much, again!
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do i have anxiety and/ panic disorder?
Feb 16th
like when i go out 2 the mall for ex. i jus feel out of place n like evry body is lookin at me. im NOT insecure about myself. its jus idk. i get mad easly n feel like every body is jus talkin shit about me. then i kinda start 2 freak out.
ive had a panic attack b4…ooo n when i drive on sum roads that the lanes r lil i get kinda idk worried. n when i let my friend drive my jeep i felt like my heart wuz gonna jump rite out of my chest i wuz freakin out soooo damn bad.
ooooo i 4 got..lol sorry…i dont really like 2 look ppl n the eyes…idk its jus sum thin bout getin hurt or letin sum 1 down…
ps. my bf says i get mad alot. like a lil stuff. but i dont see it. n my mom says ima bi.tch but i dont c that either…cuz i kno sum girls who r really bit.ches n im not like that
p.s.s.
i do have depression…n i used 2 take zoloft[?] if thats any help
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Why is my anxiety/depression the worst in the morning?
Feb 8th
I have GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) and a touch of depression too and my symptoms are always worse in the morning. I usually wake up like an hour earlier than I need to and feel nauseous and anxious. I’ve just gone through my first real breakup and I am also taking citalopram to treat my pre-existing conditions. Any thoughts?
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