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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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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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Panic attack brain overload?
Feb 15th
I have a 3 year old and Im diagnosed panic disorder with agorophobia, anxiety disorder and ptsd.
When I have an attack its like my ears are ringing, Im hearing things in my head like my mind is racing and Im detaching from reality and my daughter is always there saying "mommy mommy hey mommy lets go outside mommy!!!" I get so frustrated with the panic overload I send her to her room and cry.
Im on zoloft and xanax. Its to the point where I dont know if I can care for her anymore! Right now shes hitting my leg going mommy lets go outside, her TV is on, Im in full panic and I just can’t do this anymore!
Im in therapy for this also but nothing helps panic I swear its an incureable disease.
Im in therapy for this also but nothing helps panic I swear its an incureable disease.
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Help with panic/anxiety medications…?
Feb 5th
I have been suffering from panic disorder for 5 years. I have gone through therapy where the doctor just ended drugging me up with so many different types of anti-depressants..which didn’t work, they only made me have more anxiety. the one doctor gave me xanax. Only 1 mg a day..to be split in half, half in the am when I wake up, and half in the afternoon around 4…since then I can count the amount of anxiety/panic attacks I have had on one hand. Yes I know…THEY ARE HIGHLY ADDICTIVE..BUT THEY WORK. Also I have found no matter what medication you take they are all addictive. Has anyone found a medication that actually helps with the anxiety? No Effexor, Lexapro, Paxil…etc. I have tried these. Just needingt some help and feedback. Thanks
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need some anxiety disorder advice?
Feb 2nd
so i have been recently diagnosed with a anxiety disorder due to panic attacks and unwanted thoughts, which i learned is hypochrondria. I think that every little pain in my body some kind of cancer or a certain disease. I have also recently notice that my tongue seems too big for my mouth causing my speech to decline (which people have said its fine). I have been prescribed xanax, but I do not take it regularly because of the addiction effects. my question is, how do i deal with anxiety without medication? any suffers found ways to cop with anxiety?
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