We all worry. But when it takes over the body it's so scary. Tablets don't work anymore. What to do... I've tried many things to help but have failed....
Am at this point also nothing's working for me and it's making me ill everyday don't see the point In my life at the minute it's making me so low feeling this way everyday
Have you gone through the ssri and snri meds, also atypical antipsychotics. I have tried them all and still full of anxiety. Need some help to deal with the agitation.
I feel the same as you Heather. Why be here if all I feel is sad and anxious. It is so tiring.
I am on 3 different meds for depression and anxiety and nothing is working. I want to cry all the time.
A tried anti depressants it made everything worse had to come off and am not putting myself through them again a was ill before but a was even worse on them didn't even think that could be possible.. all I've done today is cry.. it's just so physical for me I feel every single symptom of anxiety and it makes me feel like am really not well.. countless trips to doctors.. I just don't know what to do anymore
Am a mother and wife and this makes me more anxious cause I have to keep going when I physically feel like a can't so it's making me worse
Talking on here is a positive step. We are with other people who understand as they are going through similar situations. Is there anyway you could take a day for yourself....maybe get a babysitter and go shopping and out to a movie,,,something you enjoy doing?? I am a single woman with a grown child so I have plenty of time to do things but I am too tired from the depression. All I want to do after work is sit and watch television
I could ask to have them watched but always find time to myself makes me even worse to much time to think.. this has been on going for 9 months now and it's just so dishearting to still be continuing on like this.. i don't really like going many places as a always just wanna run home. A used to be so confident a outgoing and now if anyone talks to me or approaches me a just want to run away.. it's awful. I've had cbt and it didn't do anything for me so they signed me off.. with the back and fourth trips to doctors and them doing all these tests it's just kept me in this cycle of anxiety and worry waiting on results but everything is coming back clear and then am like but why do a feel so unwell they just want me on anti depressants but a just refuse to take them.. I am catholic so I have my faith but I have been so weak even when it comes to that as a feel like giving up.. a don't know if a have to just never go back to doctor now and try and just let my body heal now.. see if the not going stops the anxiety levels.. but don't know it's been so long my mind has just got stuck in the cycle.. people keep saying just get on with your life it will go when you just forget about it but I literally can't it's so physical for me it makes me feel unwell... I get vertigo with my anxiety and when am off balanced a don't wanna do anything.. sorry for my book am so frustrated today
Ahh, if it were so easy as to just get on with life, none of us would be depressed. People who have not experienced anxiety and depression have no idea what it is like. It can consume your whole life. I have been sitting at my desk this morning crying. I have no reason other than I am depressed and anxious. I so want to feel better. I have tried meds, therapy (group and individual), DBT, nothing works. I am so very tired. I too have my faith. I am a Christian. But now, I am beginning to lose my faith a bit. It scares and saddens me. I have had this depression and anxiety for over 2 years. It is taking its toll on me mentally and physically.
I think you should ask for changes in meds if it is so bad. What have they given you so far? They say there are many different a/ds out there but where are rhey when we need them?
Hi Heather. I know exactly how you feel, I feel the same !! I could cope quite well with just feeling "anxious" over certain things and perhaps ignore them, but Oh dear, the physical symptoms are just too much to ignore. Most days I am convinced I must have something wrong with me cos I feel so unwell. Like you I had CBT which didn't do anything for me and am not taking medication either cos side effects of them were worse than the anxiety. I am now trying to "accept" the symptoms which is supposed to be the best way forward, but sometimes I can do it but when I get the physical feelings so bad, I find I am back to square one. Its a nightmare. Luv Lily x
Exactly a get a lot of chest symptoms like a feel so heavy and like my chest is tight.. my heart pounds for no reason even when am not worrying and it freaks me out so then I panic and make it worse.. most of my anxiety just sits on my chest and the most uncomfortable feeling a can't rest with it as it makes me feel restless.. never used to worry about my heart and since this happend it's all a think about cause it constantly worries me like is it meant to be doing that etc.. cbt really didn't work for me either and I will never try another anti d cause of how ill they made me even the withdrawals where awful.. just hate living my life like this.. anytime my kids want to do something it fills me with dread because of how am feeling puts me off leaving the house.. it's totally a waste of a life been stuck like this
I feel so like you, nothing is working for me either. What meds have they tried? I am looking for the psychiatrist to change mine as clearly i am feeling so bad these are not working. Tired, down and anxious too. Do you feel anxiety amongst it all? They gave me diazepam but it just takes anxiety down then depression feels worse. Any help about anti deps would be good.
I am also in the same situation. Tried many meds
Xanax, lyrica, seroxat - 1 month - didnt work, bad side effects for me, lyrica made me like a zombie, and seroxat with rashes and swelling on face
Stablon (ssre), rivotril, quetiapine - 6 months - ok, anxiety depression relieved to certain extent where I became functional again, but still have anxiety back pain , muscle spasm, and lack of energy
Fluoxetine (ssri) - started recently to replace stablon ... On it for 5 days now ... No effects yet
So enlightening to see i am not the only one suffering here. I often wonder if its the meds doing this, the constant swopping etc. What would life be without them is a washout period a possibility, not the way i feel at the moment.
I had prozac for six months, it does well for many but failed me. Havent tried stablon or rivotril, worth a go maybe?
Lyrica, well yes, i was a complete zombie and had to discontinue.
Quetiapine - not sure, I think it calmed me but it wasnt an antidepressant.
seroxat i havent tried.
sertraline my psychiatrist told me was a very good med, great successes, i was so nauseous and anxiety rocketed i lasted three weeks.
then he tried risperidone, its for bipolars so that just made me feel like i wasnt able to think straight.
please keep in touch, we obviously have some problems with these types of meds!
Stablon is worth a try.
I have been on it for 6 months, it works fine. No side effects. Non addictive. Non sleepy. I took it in the morning. It works well but it didnt restore me to 100% like I was before the anxiety depression. Maybe 70% only. Rivotril I took it at night it is a benzo class drug but less addictive than imovane.
Just bear in mind stablon is a ssre where e stands for enhancer , it works in a opposite way to ssri where i stands for inhibitor. So dont take ssre and ssri at the same time. It may have some weird effects.
Best is to check with your doctor.
Good luck and take care !
I will stay on fluoxetine for some time I hope it will work for me.