I have had three many years ago I didn’t even that’s what it was. All three times had to do with being in a confined space. They just lasted a few minutes. It essentially until the last few years that I realized what they were.
Helps to know you're not alone in this journey doesn't it ........ Always good to chat on this forum xx
After recovering as you have, it’s very kind of you to take the time to help those of us who are struggling.
If I ever get there, I hope I will do the. Same.
I'm sure you will Nancy - you'll be so excited at recovering you'll just want to pass on all you've learnt, been through etc. xxxxxx
hi kate,
l give up to easy and try another drug. finially had the genesite test. on pristiq which is the sister drug to venlafaxine. on 3 weeks, mornings are horrible but gets better has day goes on. i am having therapy with a shrink who is doing my meds will not change again for 6 months.
lynn williams
Did the anxiety ever stop while you were taking this drug?
no stayed on it 8 weeks didn’t help my anxiety. maybe i should have given it more time. trying pristiq or devenlafaxine now for 23 days
Hi Lyn
Its very easy to give up too soon, but the key is to stay on one meds for many, many months, through all the ups and downs it brings as the anxiety does finally die down and disappear.
Yes mornings are usually the worst - I also found my day got better.
Glad you’re going to stick with the meds - it really does pay off.
K x
read your blog yesterday great stuff. gene site test said this one was right for my makeup 32 days in
did you have intrusive thoughts like you would loose control in public like yell or do something which would draw attention ?
i got DR WEEKES audiotapes and trying to let the anxiety pass through me and not fight it. it is so hard to give up the constant feelings of waiting to be better.
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just started 5 weeks on desvenlafaxine. Getting through each day better in the afternoon and evening. it took you months
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Ah you found my blog 
- so many people said ‘write a book’ but that’s far too complicated and I doubt would ever happen, so I thought I’d just write things down in a blog lol.
Yes I had many intrusive thoughts and that’s what kept my anxiety thriving. I did think I could lose control, but not in public. We all have our own individual thoughts and fears, and though all different they all cause the same distress.
Intrusive thoughts are just a side effect of anxiety though - without anxiety you wouldn’t have these thoughts. Those thoughts of course then cause more anxiety, and the anxiety causes the thoughts. So its a viscous cycle.
Yes that’s how my recovery started. I’d feel better by the evening only, but again would feel rubbish in the morning. Every evening became like this and over time that great feeling crept more into my day so that I’d start feeling well by the afternoon, then the morning and finally I started waking feeling good. I was on meds 3 months when I started noticing those changes, and it was 6 months before I felt really well and the morning anxiety stopped. I improved even more from there on.
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thanks kate, i so worry about intrusive thoughts and the horrible anxiety they bring i make myself carry on even though isometimes feel i’ll loose it in public. it can be crippling. i am looking to start a therapy that looks at my intrusive thoughts calledexposure and response therapy.
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alsobought weekes audio book which is comforting
I seem to feel better at night also. Mornings I’m very tense. 5 weeks 20 mg and 1 week 30 mg. Your experience is giving me some hope
Yes that’s often the problem - we worry about the intrusive thoughts, and of course its that worry that keeps them ticking over. Leaving them alone will allow them to ease and disappear.
Don’t know if I’ve said this before (apologies if I have) but if you can liken the thoughts to that situation we all get sometimes, when you get a song stuck in your head and you go around all day humming it, until it drives you up the wall. We don’t go around trying to work out why we’ve got it, or how to get rid of it, or worry it won’t go, but we get on with our normal day and find that song disappears, and a day or so later we probably won’t even remember what the song was.
Intrusive thoughts are a bit like that. They go round and round in our head and of course we worry about them, try and rid ourselves of them etc etc., but if treat them the same as that stuck song in your head by just letting it be, don’t engage with it, get on with life you’ll find that the thought will eventually ease and disappear. I know its harder because of the anxiety it brings, but it does work - and the anxiety about the thought eases too. By paying attention to the thoughts they’ll cling harder, but by ‘ignoring’ them they’ll eventually go away.
Yes exposure therapy is good too and the Weekes tapes are brilliant. She talks of the same method I explained a little about above. It really does work.
K x
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Hi Postaldogg
Yes its strange how you can start feeling better at night - some people feel better other times of the day, but it was the evenings for me. At the time I didn’t even know that it was recovery, but just that I felt relief in the evenings. As this kept happening along with every morning feeling dreadful, I began to see a pattern. Slowly my evenings turned into good afternoons and then the mornings too until I started waking with no anxiety. That took 6 months. The first time I woke with no anxiety I hardly dared move!! I still got blips throughout this time though but they got easier.
Mornings are always the worst for anxiety as its when Cortisol is at its highest.
Sounds like you’re having a similar pattern to me then. Just let it happen - it’ll come xx.
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