A few weeks ago I passed out on a night out on the street and my friends found me. I was taken to a hospital and woke up to a shock realisation that I was in a hospital and what had happened to me.. I was discharged after a few hours and went home and slept.. the next day I went to get on a bus and to my surprise started feeling like I was going to puke.
This never had happened to me before. Then it progressed to a fear of walking on my own in my city.
I then had a an episode where I tried to force myself onto the bus home from work and had to get off after a few stops as I felt so ill and thought I would faint.
I then went on to have to get my parents collect me an was extremely panicked and nauseous in the car the whole way home.
I saw the doctor who put me on 50mg of sertaline for 7 days and the 100mg.
Today is day 6. I resisted the medication at first and tried hypnotherapy as I believed I had put myself in some sort of mind frame that night.
I have never had this level of anxiety before and it has knocked me to the ground. I can't work at the moment and feel a shadow of myself
Daily tasks are hell.
Please help 
Hi
I read your post and just want to say please get some counselling. I had a period of anxiety and now I don't do a lot of things because I'm afraid to go too far alone or be too far from home or work in case I have a panic attack, that was 7 year's ago. Take it from me, you need to get help as early as possible to get back to some sort of normality.
Don't allow this to take over your life the way it has mine. Speak to your doctor to get a referral for therapy of some description.
Take care x
Hi there,
I've just read your post and it was like I was writing it myself. I have the exact same type of anxiety as yourself that's now materialised from a health anxiety into a social anxiety as well being in public places and on public transport. It got to the stage I would have panic attacks whilst waiting on the bus and just had to go home as I couldn't cope. I now have good and bad days and have accepted that. However in your case it stems from actually passing out. The best way I felt for myself to overcome my anxiety was to rationalise it everytime. You only passed out because you were on a night out so I take it you were very drunk? Just think everytime you feel anxious this only happened because I was drunk and it was my body's way of dealing with it and no matter what could've happened to me, I ended up in hospital and was cared for. And also it wasn't the bus that made you feel sick and you were never sick on the bus.
I hope that helps in anyway, for me medication gave me even more anxiety for various reason and found the only way was to rationalise situations and ground myself with various techniques and meditation is fab! Please know that's it's okay to have bad days and celebrate the good days you have although they may seem far away they will come if you keep trying!
X
Thank you. Yesterday I had my first breakthrough day as I would call it. I made myself go to a garden centre with my parents and went to other places. I forced myself to stay there through waves of hell (nausea, shortness of breath, feeling trapped) and when we where done I was so proud of myself. I realised that if i "act" confident it lessens. It exhausts me though. But it's a way of helping me.. I'm not sure if I will ever been feeling normal again but hopefully so.
I'm only on week 2 of sertaline and still feel anixous and out of it. Hopefully it will clear soon.
I can see how something like this could ruin someone's life. It's is a crippling and misunderstood disease. I genuinely believe that people have a blurred view of what aniexty is. I think people get aniexty confused with nervousness.
Thank you.
I'm currently looking into counselling and eager to start with the right person. Hopefully I can knock this on the head
That's fab! I work in retail and every shift is like hell for me & I constantly feel like I need to escape and I completely agree it is so draining on your body physically and mentally I get so many symptoms which I now understand are all related to anxiety and I'm not dying everyday!
I have forgot what 'normal' feels like to the point where when I'm in a place where I usually feel anxious and the typical symptoms don't kick in I start to question and then become panicky at the thought i have no anxiety, the mind is a crazy thing.
I now try to use my anxiety as a sense of empowerment and think everyday I have beaten this by even just stepping out the door. In my mind I always tell it to do it's worse when I'm having a really bad day & when I can get through it it's a great sense of achievement. You just need to remember not everyday is gunna be as bad as the last.
x