OMg I am starting to have an attack!!
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OMg I am starting to have an attack!!
| Tue, 05-03-2005 - 3:00pm |
I was just reading another message board and now I am even more scared. I just want dh to come home and hug me and tell me that I'm ok.
STUPID me for reading stuff.... I am now convinced that I have this and I am stuck....... I am so scared!!!!
Is this just a small symptom of anxiety? I am so scared right now I can't stop crying.
Edited 5/3/2005 3:09 pm ET ET by hmeshow

Heather,
Don't beat yourself up for reading. One of the hardest parts of anxiety is the not knowing - it's only natural to want all of the information that you can have. You can discuss the DP with your physician and get some guidance on this that will hopefully put your mind at ease.
But you know what this attack is, so please try to relax. I know that this is easier said than done. Take some deep breaths. Feel your feet on the floor and your behind on the chair and concentrate on feeling grounded.
I am so sorry that you are going through this - I know firsthand how terrifying it can be. But you will survive it and the next one and eventually they will be fewer and furhter between.
hugs...................
will this awful feeling go away in time also?
The only good thing I read on that website was that lexapro has been successful in treating this.
Last week when I talked to my pdoc for the 1st time she said that she was confident that I had adjustment disorder with severe anxiety. She said that she did still want to rule out a few other things, all having to do with panic.anxiety. I point blank asked her about all of the things she thought it could be, I asked her if they were all treatable. SHe said yes... I then asked her if I would be happy again and have a happy life and she said yes.
I really don't think she'sd lie to me and I don't think that she'd tell me I'd be ok and happy if she hadn't seen the same things in other people and didn't really believe it.
I'm just so upset and spacey right now.
I also just read that this Depersonalization crap can go along with PTSD. I was diagnosed with adjustment disorder which is supposed to be a short term PTSD.
Does that mean that this will go away in time also? I hope so....
I just keep telling myself that I have been ok up to this point. Nothing bad has happened to me, I see my pdoc tomorrow and not a minute too soon.
I need to talk to her and find out whats going on.
Does that mean that everyone here who has had those out of reality feelings has had a touch of this? Is that what it is?
I'm thinking that maybe I'm over reacting a bit maybe this is from the anxiety and it will get better.
I'm just PETRIFIED!
Awww, Heather, you're getting yourself all worked up reading that stuff. Try to stay away from that site. Write it down and ask you doc about it when you see her. For now, forget it. I know it hard not to think about your anxiety problems and the future, but try going to some sites and doing some fun stuff to take your mind off it. I'll even recommend one, where you can make paper snowflake, like we did as kids (great fun!):
http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/index.html?id=431449
Renee
P.S. Feel free to email me through my profile, and I can give you my instant message name if you do, in case you ever want to talk.
Therapy and medication can help to make the symptoms bearable. For the first month or so after I was diagnosed and put on Paxil, I went back and forth between being spaced out and having anxiety. But it really did get better. I know that sometimes it seems like it won't, but it will. Have some faith in yourseld - you are obviously a strong person who knows when to seek help and face this thing head on. You will prevail eventually, hon. I wish that I could say something to make you feel better right this moment but all that I CAN tell you is that it does get better. Small consolation in some ways but hearing that from people kept me going through those first rough months.
Jules
I know this is very scary and distrubing! I felt like you do in the past
and it did stop with the medication! Stop reading the internet!!
Read a good book instead!! Take care, Judy
Thank you all,
Chat last night helped to calm me down but I woke up in a panic this morning.
I have a headache, diareah (sp) and nauseaus (sp) .
Dh had to go to work and can't take me to my tdoc. I am just scared to go, afraid that she'll tell me that I'm stuck in this awful place and will never feel the same again.
SHe said that I have sever anxiety and I think that my meds aren't high enough. I'm on 10mg of lexapro which is what people start with.
I'm going to see what she says and go from there, I am so SCARED. My appt is at 11 so I am going to shower and get the kiddos to my MIL's.
I will update when I get back!!!!
Thank you all so much, this is so hard and its nice to have this board. I feel for all the people who don't have support at home or online.
Say a prayer for me please...
Heather
I've said a prayer for you. Try not to worry, you will get better. They just have to find the right med/dose.
Renee