Hello everyone. I suffer with very bad anxiety I feel constantly sick and panicky. I also suffer with bad blushing. It makes me feel pretty down. I’m currently doing cbt. I’ve tried several antidepressants to help take the edge of it But I always seem to have side effects. I have tried Escitalopram but it gave me really awful tender breast pain. It’s very frustrating as it has been the best one. I tried it for 3 months. I’m wondering would it be worth trialing citalopram? Do you tend to get the same side effects? Sertraline made me constipated and couldn’t sleep! Fluoxetine was ok but no good for anxiety!
I find work so hard I just wish I could bring my brain down a notch. Any help is appreciated . Thanks!
Fluoxetine has helped me, but I suppose different drugs work differently for different people. I have been on fluoxetine for a long time at different doses and when I began struggling with anxiety and OCD in June of last year my dosage was increased from 20mg to 40mg. It’s taken a long time to start to feel better and a lot of advice on here was to stick with it and give it time, which I’m glad I did. I still have my struggles but it’s a lot better than it was which i’m grateful for. I have got a lot of information online from different websites and from Facebook too, so do reach out online as there is a lot of reassuring Information out there. There’s a website called ‘Healthunlocked’ which I’ve found particularly helpful as you can read about other people’s experiences and it helps you feel less alone.
Best of luck and take one day at a time. You will get better. It just takes time.
Sertraline gleich morgens einzunehmen, ist am besten. Für mich bedeutete das, dass es keine Adrenalin-Schübe gab, wenn ich Dinge durchdachte oder überreagierte.
Aber das Beste war die intensive kognitive Verhaltenstherapie, die mir zeigte, wie Gedanken zu schlimmeren Gedanken führen usw.
Und ich kann es nicht oft genug betonen: Jon Kabat-Zinns Buch „Vollständige Katastrophe leben“ ist brillant. Es erfordert Arbeit, aber es ist großartig.
Das andere Buch, das ich großartig fand, heißt „Soundtracks“ von Jon Acuff. Es bietet sehr direkte kognitive Stichpunkte und Methoden, um übermäßiges Grübeln anzugehen. Wenn ich ängstlich bin, erinnere ich mich daran, zu fragen: Ist mein Gedanke wahr? Ist er hilfreich? Und ist er freundlich? Das bringt es wirklich auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück.
Ich weiß nicht, ob das überhaupt hilfreich ist, aber ich wollte meine Gedanken einfach teilen, da meine Angst über Jahrzehnte hinweg von früher Kindheit an ständig präsent war. Diese Dinge haben meinen gesamten inneren Dialog verändert. Ich hoffe, du findest Frieden und kannst vorankommen. x
I went through feeling anxious with a terrible feeling of impending doom a few months ago.
Speaking to the doctor about it, he suggested I do square breathing. That’s where you breathe in slowly to maybe a count of 3 and then breathe out the same.
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