Last year I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and was put on 20mg Citalopram and went through a 12 week counselling service. I thought everything was fine after that but it really wasn't. I came crashing down a couple of months ago, and I am now worse than what I was. I was diagnosed with a rolling hiatus hernia back in February '16 so that has contributed to a lot of my stress and I've also just finished University... Anyway, I'm now reaching the point where I feel incredibly hopeless. The doctor has now put me back on citalopram and also now propranolol. One of my biggest problems at the minute is that I get myself worked up. For example, I can wake up during the night and find the smallest thing to panic about! I took my first propranolol today and j feel like absolute rubbish... I'm now getting to the stage of I don't know what to do. Can anyone advise me or just reassure me a little? I'm constantly thinking I'm going to have a heart attack, or have a brain tumour and it is going to kill me. Disturbing, I know, and that's not helping me out at all.
I also have the health anxiety with my heart. It sucks to say the least.. When you feel yourself getting anxious or overwhelmed, watch a show, read, write, I find it helpful to look at my hospital papers that say my tests were normal. You're not having a heart attack and you don't have a brain tumor. Maybe speak to your doctor, it could be a slight side effect to the meds. I'm currently being weaned from citalopram because I keep feeling very jittery/overwhelmed/just not right on it.
I was put through a counselling programme last year which I didn't find very beneficial, and now I'm on the waiting list for a different strand of counselling - focused more on panic.
All these symptoms interact and are profoundly influenced by your coping style and your psychological state. It isn' the stress that's make you ill - rather it's the effect responses such as excessive worrying and anxiety have on the various interacting systems that can bring on physical illness.
Talk with your doctor about this. Exercise daily and learn to relax. These techniques have real potential to reduce anxiety and worries.
IT may sound crazy but I now take two cups of chamolile tea a day and I use lavender oil and bergamot oil on my pillow at night with the citalopram and the propanalol its managing to keep me calmer and I get to sleep longer and deeper god only knows now what I would go back to without these so for me a combination of conventional and holistic therapies are keeping me at bay but thats what works for me I have mentioned before that in june that I am going for hypnotherapy in une so I am really hoping that this will help too I hope so as my doctor seems to think it is my personality and make up to why I keep having relapses. I am a great believer in holistic and natural remedies but I know this last episode I would need conventional medication.I know it is my thought process that puts me in tis position but when the fear comes in it is so hard to rationilise our fears and worries and I hate it with a passionbecause to me you dont feel normal. I hope you can get some help which will suit you and be benificial for you
See that's strange as I have actually tried camomile tea (I actually enjoy the taste!) and it has no effect on me at all!! As with the lavender scent, I tried that when I was way younger for sleep problems and it didn't work
Ended up in hospital again today thinking I was having a heart attack again and she advised me to be referred over to Mental Health Team for psychiatry rather than counselling so guess that's a good thing. Might move quicker too.
No absolutely no idea. The hospital just said that clinically there is absolutely nothing wrong with me, and that my thoughts are causing stress and that's the underlying issue so I need help for it. I've been to hospital roughly once a week for the past couple of months and it's getting a bit out of hand now