For the last 6 months since an incident where i thought i had an heart attack ive been nothing but obseesed with the thought of death constantly, checking my pulse aware of my own breathing bp etc, I suffered terrible panic attacks to the point of falling a sleep at work after them, as a manager this didnt help. im now on fluxotine for depressions and anxiety but still cant shake the anxiety fully even tho some days are better and i have clarity im not a bout to die, but they niggle back in has anyone else been through this and found away to help?
I am on citalopram for anxiety due to an overactive thyroid. I have also been offered some cognitive behaviour therapy on the NHS to help me. It took 4 weeks for the anti-ds to kick in. I am still not going about as normal but I am on the mend. The GP reckons it will take another 2 - 3 months.
All the best
Linda
Thanks linda any help is always appreciated, they keep checkin my thyroid but hey no hope, glad to see it does help in the end
cheers chris
Hi Chris. This sounds so identical to what I am going through at the moment. I am 23 and have suffered from panic attacks on and off for the past 8yrs I have always managed to keep them under control but like you I suffered a severe panic attack 6 months ago where I thought I was having a panic attack. I have been prescribed Citalopram which is an anti depressant, I havent taken them yet but I am hoping for this to work. I was prescribed proprananol which is a beta blocker but this didnt help for me at all. I too have a severe phobia of death or anything related to this. It has never bothered me before up until now. Its affecting my job aswell, as I am in charge of security in a high risk store for Tesco and as you can imagine its hard to deal with anxiety when dealing with highly stressful and sometimes violent situations. I think my phobia of death stems from when I was working as a special for the police and I witnessed someone dying from a heart attack and ever since then I have been in constant fear of death and dying. I also check my pulse and I dunno if its because of the panic attack or what but sometimes my heart beats so weak that I cannot feel a plus or thumping in my chest and everything slowly moves away from me. Its common to feel extremely tired after a panic attack which will cause you to fall asleep, but I suggest when feeling like that then have something sugary like a mars bar I have found this helps for me as after a panic attack I feel week and extremely tired. I hope your getting through this mate as for me I feel as though it gets worse every day and feel cripled by it.