A little background - I’ve had anxiety and panic disorder for many years. I’m on Fluoxetine 40mg and have been for three years.
Since Boxing Day I’m really suffering with my anxiety. It’s come back out of the blue with vengeance. I just want to lie in bed and cry. All I can think about is how ill it makes me feel, what happens if I have a huge panic attack and lose control. I feel like I’m going mad. I’ve been going out daily to distract my mind, as hard as it’s been to get ready and make the effort. I have an 11 month old baby and two older kids, so making an effort is really important. I just feel like this is never going to end.
I’m trying to accept how I feel and not fight it but how do you tell the difference between accepting it or breathing through it? It’s constant and so tiring
Maybe your medication has stopped working, that's what happens to me in July, I was on citalopram for 7 years and it stopped working. I was in constant panic and unbearable anxiety it was horrendous! I did not know this was the citalopram doing this to me till September and then I switched over to sertraline. I know what you are going through, I was living in ■■■■ every second of the day, I did not want to live anymore but I did not want to dye. Anyway since switching to a different antidepressant I am so much better. See your gp asap, you might be going through a blip with your medication.
Its awful isn't it i hate it i feel so low i has a really bad time last year i had a panic attack everyday for over a week and it was lasting alday long i was constantly at the hospital cudnt sleep shaking in side blurry vistion chest pain blood pressure was threw the roof and now im habing 1 today im so scared