I am a 26 year old mother of two and I feel like I am 90 and on life support and the life support being my home!!!
I'm watching my friends go out, go to the beach , trips , just being happy and I am so sad and lost I don't know what to do anymore I have to take a vaulim just to go to the store for crying out loud. I just feel like laying in my bed and not moving. The joy is gone. Why is my anxiety and panic attacks so bad? I just don't understand. I all the time feel funny, feel like I can't breath , like I have MS , I feel so weak and just worn . I have derealization when outside I can't even be outside. Sometimes I feel dream like, like my family is a dream
I have had tons of blood work done, heart tests all good.
I just want it to stop!!! I want to enjoy my life. Anxiety has stolen a year of my life, a year that I could of been enjoying my kids. I only feel SOME normal when I take a vaulim but I am so worried of getting hooked or tonlornce to them.
How can I beat this? Is it even possible?
I can't afford therapy and they havery tryed all kinds of meds and I have bad reactions
I'm 27 going on 90 also! I don't know how you manage the children as well as anxiety - I don't have children and given my current state I probably never will. I can't sleep tonight my anxiety is so bad and I will be expected at work tomorrow and after having had a panic attack at work today I can't face that! I know how it feels, all the tablets you take just to make it through another day and none of it works not properly. I feel like I should be out enjoying my life but I can't not with this hanging over me. The only thing I can recommend is keep going back to the doctors make them see how bad this is for you! Something has to work surely!
Hang in there I'm so low right now but I know things cannot stay bad they simply can't I promise life will get better if you ever need to talk I'm here
I totally sympathize with you. I feel exactly how you do every single day now for 3 years. My life has been taken away from me overnight. I hate taking meds as well bc they give me horrible side effects and make me worse. Maybe try a more natural approach like homeopathic meds? I tried and it helped some but eventually it wasn't working for me, but I've heard a lot of success stories with it. Also maybe acupuncture? I hope we can all get our lives back soon!
Hi. . I was same as you at your age , didn't tell anyone for ages as felt l would be seen as strange . After years I realise this very common. At first when I confided in doctor I had to take Valium just to get out. Didn't socialise always anxious , worrying. Heart racing( could go on and on. Cbt can help , talking to people here who understand helps as you realise your not alone and great people reassure you. Doctor should be able to help more as they see this a lot. I thought I was worse than anyone they had ever seen before but now get by on bad days with very little meds and I talk. I need to get my thoughts out of my head. It's hard to think positive when you feel rotten and don't know when it will pass but it does pass and we have to push on and not let anxiety win . It can convince us of all sorts of weird things. , this is beatable. I wouldn't have believed this at my low points but please fight on, here anytime❤️
I am with you 250%. Other than the kids. Like someone said before, I don't know how you are able to handle kids and anxiety/panic disorder. You are much stronger than you know. I've had anxiety for most of my life, but panic disorder only since I was 24. It's been four years. I can tell you it does get better, but you MUST take care of yourself first or you'll be back in the same position like I am. I let my ex boyfriend control my life and run me down. I put him first instead of myself, and now here I am.. alone. Trust me when I tell you... your family will understand.. you just HAVE to take care of yourself. Learn different ways to cope. Meds are only secondary help. I hope you start feeling better. Please know you are not alone and you can message me at any time you'd like.
No if you decide to get help. You can change it for the better find a good therapist and try medication for your Anxiety. If you want too. You sound like me I feel like a walking zombie and I only lay in bed and I feel like I'm just floating around. It's probably the depression. Don't feel bad Anxiety and Depression made me waste 7 years of my life. Trapped in my house. Without counting the rest of the time I let Anxiety and Depression control me and I would not go out and do things I wished I could do. Like going out with my family. Don't let your Anxiety control you. You will regret it. I do. Push yourself to go outside. Try to get help right away so they can help you cope with it and you can be happy and enjoy life again. I wish you the best
Hi, oh how i agree with exactly what you say. I used to be so happy and outgoing, now i feel like a prisoner in my own body which is wrapped in the anxiety and depressive rhoughts. I want to go out with my friends, they keep asking but i feel too ill to go. I can manage to get up and dressed and maybe out walking in afternoon, but any substance to life is not there. I too have tried many of their anti depressants and to no avail. Also tried cbt but couldnt do it. What have you been on, did anything help. My psych now wants anti dep with anti psychotic, says they work well rogether but im not psychotic or bipolar, really scared of this anyone tried them?