Hi Gerrymoo
So good to see you posting such positiveness!!!! That's so incredible you first took meds for a back issue, which then led to anxiety and everything. It is a long arduous journey for many isn't it and glad you persevered.
Omg that book - how amazing is it. I'd read others many years previous, but that one beats it. It is just so accurate. I'm always passing that on to others now lol 
Yes, definitely need royalties haha 
Katecogs pouvez-vous fournir des liens vers des livres, j'apprécie toute l'aide que vous avez apportée sur ce forum.
Merci
Roisin
Yes will do Roisin xx
Kate, I finally got the book and read it, it took sometime to ship as I live in the states, but it was worth the wait. The methods are very similar to mindfulness but having a book that used those methods in direct correlation to anxiety made it all make more sense. I am by no means recovered but have already seen improvements. The whole part about stopping avoiding things has been difficult but has been the most beneficial. I had just been hiding in my office at work and trying to do everything by email and would just sit in there obsessing about the anxiety all day. Once I made the decision to get out of the office and do some things it was uncomfortable but I found myself breaking my cycle of thoughts and found myself actually enjoying myself. One thing I noticed today is that with it being a weekend and having nothing I have or need to do I am stuck in a bit of a rut of over thinking again.
Forgot to say, Thanks for the recommendation! I have already ordered the 2nd book but am hopeful that by the time it arrives I won't even feel the need for it
Hey Matthew
Oh my gosh I'm so glad the book has been beneficial already!!! Its very true what it says about getting out and doing instead of avoiding, feel the fear and do it anyway. Yes incredibly difficult and uncomfortable, but you're beginning to break the habit / cycle of anxiety.
Being on your own at the weekend with your own thoughts is fine too - its another part of 'don't avoid'. Be with those thoughts, let them race, know they're just a side effect of the anxiety and will go once the anxiety goes. Go for a walk, cycle ride or something, as being outside is quite a breath of fresh air too.
It won't of course all stop anxiety dead in its tracks, but working towards facing it and letting it just be, helps to reverse the process and breaks the cycle of anxiety / fear / anxiety.
Understanding anxiety is so beneficial along with the medication.
Yes the second book is equally brilliant, it answers many questions that weren't covered in the first.
Even though I'm recovered I still dip into the books occasionally - I just find them so interesting.
K x
I am currently sharing the book with another member in a different discussion!
Yay!! Pass it on
I am nearly 6 months in 20mg fluoxetine mornings are so bad on high alert feel like I never go get better I am 62 suffered anxiety in bouts since I was 22 this is my second time of fluoxetine it took a long time last time but this time I feel that it's gone v deep feel afraid I not coming back any advice
It can take longer second time on meds and mornings are usually the worst time for us. Did the Fluoxetine work the first time? My first time on meds it took around 6 months and the second time about 8 months.
No matter how deep you feel you've become in the anxiety / depression, you can still recover from it. We always think the worst too - our thoughts turn negative when suffering with anxiety. An anxious body creates an anxious mind - they go hand in hand together. When you start feeling better your thoughts will change.
You will get over this - the meds worked before and they will again.
K x
I’m going to read the book too as I need all the help that i can get right now I need getting through this horrific illness until the citalopram starts to work
Hope the book is helping you Gemma - it'll help answer lots of questions and allay lots of fears too. Just keep persevering on the meds - you'll get there.
K x
I've checked and it's seven weeks this Friday since I've been on the citalopram 20mg and the doctors are pushing me to go up to 30. I just don't know what to do. I just want this to get better. I really want to believe that the citalopram will work for me again.x
Attendez au moins 8 semaines... mais mieux vaut 12 semaines... Je sais que vous avez du mal... Je suis désolée... Je sais que le médicament dont je vous ai parlé vous donnera du sommeil... Je ne sais pas si vous voulez ajouter un autre antidépresseur...
It took me until around 3 months on 20mg until I noticed small changes, and it was 6 months on 20mg before I'd recovered. Changes are often difficult to notice because we often expect to start feeling better, but instead symptoms start easing little by little which often go unnoticed and aren't put down to recovery.
I know 20mg works for me so I wouldn't go higher, but we're all different. I think as Lois says, maybe wait some more weeks. A higher dose won't make you better any quicker and you'll still go through the same process of recovering.
You took these meds before? What dose did you used to take?
Hi Kate I am on 6months 20 mg fluoxetine I have felt a bit better but it is very strong in the mornings and a lot of the day I feel like my head is on a clamp and my thought are muddled I get v down hearted it's so over whelming
I used to be on 20mg before and they worked for me for five years until the doctors told me to take a break (which I now seriously regret). I just can't remember how long it took before I started to feel better. It's just that it feels that I start to make progress then I wake with a panic attack which then sets me back for a while. I just want to be me again and to be able to go to work again.
Je me demande ce que votre médecin voulait dire en vous conseillant de faire une pause avec le Celexa... y a-t-il quelque chose de grave dont on ne nous a pas parlé ?
Nothing that I know of. One doctor told me to stay on it as long as I wanted and if that was life then that was fine, but I'm the uk when we repeat prescriptions we need to have a review every so often. So the other doctors that I'd seen for other general non serious health appointments said to me about taking a break seen as I was doing so well. I felt a bit pushed really into making a decision as I was torn by the different doctors. So unfortunately I made the wrong choice in listening to the two that told me to take a break because I wouldn't have been going through this if I'd just stayed on them.
Je comprends tout à fait... d'après toutes les autres expériences que j'ai lues sur ce forum, aucun médecin au monde ne va me retirer ce médicament.. merci à ce forum.. Je sais que jouer à la roulette russe avec ce médicament n'est pas très rassurant...