I cant conrol my anxiety and panic. Cant sleep, cant eat which is stressing me more. DO NOT want to take medication my doctor said I should take propranolol to calm down and I need to to control this but I want to do it without, I cant help but think of side affects. Ive had this for years but never this severe. I took my first setraline on saturday which I was anxious about especially after reading the reviews and havent stopped panicking since. Havent took another one nor will I. How to calm down? Am I going insane? Constantly feel like im dreaming. Can someone help? Not sure whether to go to college if it will make it worse or not. Haven't been to work on the weekend or college today. Will this go away? Doing these things makes me severely anxious but so does staying at home. Doe anyone else feel like this? How did you overcome it?
Hi Christine,
You really should work with your doctor. If you don’t want to take medication maybe you should see a therapist. Perhaps talk therapy could help you. You could try to keep your mind busy by exercising and doing other things. Meditation could definitely help you. Mindfulness and yoga are some other things to consider. Best wishes to you!
I phoned the place they sent me for referral yesterday and I have an appointment only on the 25th of november. I got a woman to phone me back and she said she will try and get me sooner if there is a cancellation. That I should go to college today and tell my lecturer and I can get counselling at college. I dont know how to calm myself, what if therapy doesnt help?
Also nervous to go to college with the way I'm feeling.
Hello
Sorry you are feeling this way. I honestly think working with your doctor is the best approach here. Anxiety takes time to calm down, it won't disappear overnight sadly. Especially if it is affecting your work and collage. I got to a point were I had a month off uni and work when I got so bad. It was hard catching back up.
Propranolol stops the adrenal rushes that cause the panic attack symptoms and it really calms the body down (stops the shakes, palpitations etc). I have gotten through so much with it. I only take it as required now.
The main thing is to use it as a crutch in order to work through your anxiety issue with a therapist, though the waiting times are often long.
The best thing you can do without medication, is drink camomile tea to calm your nervous system and practice some deep breathing on YouTube, just to ground yourself and get focus.
Hope this helps.
I used to read the side effects too. I'm very suggestive and I think because I read the side effects I would actually get them. So what I did is I no longer googled them. Just make sure someone else does. I feel like this too but I didn't overcome it. I've heard cbt therapy can help. Along with medication.👍Good Luck!
I'm going threw the same thing your going threw I know how it feels it sucks you just feel like your dieing but really your not I'm only 16 and life is hard an feels un real to me I also have vertigo bad and it just sucks but stay strong and realize there are people that go grew what you go threw Have Faith -Austin
Honey. I went through EXACTLY what you are going through now. My life was going good until one night I woke up in the middle of the night with a panic attack. From that point I constantly worried about when the next attack would be as well as I started worrying about everything that was happening to me. I started analyzing every thought and feeling I was having. My doctor gave me Lexapro, I took it one time and had a major panic attack and til this day I have not taken another medicine of any kind. I mean so much as a tylenol. There would be days when the anxiety and panic attacks would be so strong I would feel so restless and just start moving cleaning house, shopping, anything to calm down. I went down that road for about 4 months before my husband finally convinced me to go to a therapist. (I was just like you letting all the "what ifs" stop me. I went back to work which was really hard and was going to a therapist having 3-5 panic attacks a day. I just kept going. Its what we HAVE to do. 11 months later now, I still have a LOT of anxious thoughts and sometimes I still have panic attacks but thanks to therapy I have learned how to realize it is just my anxiety and I have to keep going about what I have to do. It DOES get better. Always say "this too shall pass"
I will say though it only got better for me when I decided to stand up and face it.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!!!
Thank you its really difficult im trying but its so hard once i start feeling anxious. Dont know where to go to feel calm. Did you ever have the feeling you were in like a dream almost that gets to me the most.
Thank you I am trying just worried about my eating though how do I get my appetite back.
Thank you, yea im going yo try the cbt therapy. Hope it works
Thank you, yea seeing how many people feel like this makes me feel a bit better. Was feeling like im going insane. Good luck to you to
Hope you get through this too. It really sucks
Oh yeah! I felt like that often. Sometimes I still do. I just keep thinking "its just my anxiety" it will go away. Sometimes I have theses moments like de ja vu, sometimes I feel like I can't hold my head up because Im so tired, and other times I feel like I can't sit still. Anxiety for me came and still does come out in so many different ways. For the longest time, I convinced myself it was not anxiety because I was having so many different symptoms. It just sucks. Take it from me though, don't let it control you. I used to avoid going places and doing things, I don't anymore. No matter how uncomfortable I am, I go on about my day. We have to.