anxiety..is it just fear or fate
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anxiety..is it just fear or fate
| Wed, 10-22-2008 - 2:58pm |
I would love to find someone to talk to about the anxiety i wake up with during my divorce. I am ending an almost 29 year marriage. Is there anyone who decided to end her marriage, got though it and can tell me what the other side is like. i wake up with anxiety every night, or every morning and i dont know if this is just fear of change, or if

Hi tealeaves,
Yes, I understand. I went through major anxiety, including a panic attack when I first left STBX. In fact, it made me think I was doing the wrong thing. I went back to him, but quite soon after, I realized that it was over, and I was just having fear over the next phase of my life.
It will pass! It's just your body dealing with the stress. I agree; you should speak to a counselor, and if you're not opposed to medication, it may help. I went on Lexapro, and I'm REALLY glad I did. It made a huge difference in my life, because I didn't realize that along with the anxiety, I was pretty depressed.
Please don't worry (easy to say!) because it doesn't mean you're making the wrong decision. It's just new, and new can be scary. But scarier to me is staying with an abuser, which mine is.
Change takes a lot of strength to endure and significant courage to induce.