I’m so tired of this.. sick and tired. I feel like I don’t know how much more I can take.. I fake a smile every day. My family and bf say they see imrprovement but I see nothing but the same person with this illness.. my headaches make my anxiety worse. They make me feel like I’m dying. I’m scared. I’m afraid to go outside anymore. I don’t enjoy doing anything I used to love doing. I’m not happy.. I’m on 4 weeks on celexa/citalopram.. headaches started to go away and now they’re back and I’m worried sick. I want my old life back. I don’t get how this happened in a day.. now it’s two months and I’m the same. I feel like I’m never gonna be able to live my life again. I’m afraid I’m not beautiful anymore.. everything is just flushed down the toilet. I don’t see light at the end of the tunnel 😢 why can’t this go away?
Pretty discouraging, isn't it Candycakez? Most of us share your despondency at one time or another.
I know advice is cheap, but at this time you really need to force yourself to get out and do things. Medication is fine, but Anxiety and Depression require Therapy, Exercise, good diet and good sleep as well. You need the 'Big Five' to drive you through this. When I'm feeling that way I force myself to go out and walk my dogs for a few miles. It really makes me feel better even momentarily and helps defeat the self-focus which leads to Anxiety symptoms.
You WILL eventually get through it, we always do. One more thing I've been doing lately to help with it is Acupuncture and Cranial-Sacral massage therapy. Hey, I laughed as well when someone suggested it, but it does help relax you and make you feel better. Don't be afraid to try some holistic treatments, you may be surprised at how effective they are. Good luck!
I think you should join the Anxiety Stress & Panic Attack Support group at Facebook. There's a large group of people who suffer from similar symptoms like yours who can give you some support.
U know what I do when I’m feeling that way? I literally sit in the shower and just let the water run over me. Relaxes me to some degree. I also play FarmVille lol I know. But it distracts my mind. U should play with me!
Thank you so much for reaching out.
Can I ask what kind of diet is best? I want to go back to my old life, but these headaches and symptoms scare me and make me worry then stop me from doing what I want to do. 😢🙁 I heard chiropractors can help with headaches.. I have to try that.
Thank you! I’ll check it out
Showers are probably the highlight of my day. It’s the only part where I feel actually good and Normal. lol I haven’t played FarmVille in so long! Sounds like a cool idea. I play candy crush to distract
Hi candycakez,
Have you thought about hypnosis. I went to a doctor years ago who did this, he also taught me to self hypnotize into deep relaxation. You can re-train your brain, put your happy thoughts in, calm the nerves.
Hey dear
It's better to be yr self than to fake the face. You gradually killing your self. Make peace and try to reduce what cause you to have anxiety
How are u feeling this morning?
Candy,
I've been dealing with it for about 50 years! I've had bad experiences with people in situations. I think the worse of all was being in the hospital about 20 years back for a few days for kidney stones. My anxiety was unbearable and the nurses treated me like hell. Anytime i have alot of extreme anxiety, my mind goes "there" again and i';m worried to death about even having to go into a hospital again. I understand you're fears and worries. I experience them daily still and have a fear and deep worry just about going outside my house into public. I could never tolerate any kind of medication my whole life because every one of them gave serious side effects before i even started.
But, i have been on Gabapentin, and now Lyrica about 5 months and they are very very helpful. No real side effects like the rest. But the problem is they wear off over time. Dr. doesn't agree too much with that, so i am only taking it when i really need it....situational. It's about the only thing that helps. When it is working, i am a completely different person.
I try and eat a balanced diet-meat/fish, dairy products, vegetables, fruits. Prepare meals ahead of time if you have to, freeze them and heat them up. When I go through a real anxiety period I usually just eat only when my tummy is really rumbling in hunger-then I just eat to stop the hunger feeling. For example, I'll come home from work and heat up some 'wings', because it's quick-but it isn't a very balanced diet.
If you're living alone like I do and have evening conference calls for work and you're feeling depressed or anxious it's easy to not eat balanced meals. And poor nutrition is the last thing you need when you're struggling emotionally. Push yourself to make that extra effort to prepare balanced meals, it'll help you get through the issues faster-believe me.
Hypnosis isn't too effective as far as eliminating the symptoms of anxiety, because your body is 'trained' to react in that way for reasons you probably don't know. You really need to get at the root cause of your anxiety in order to defeat it and the only way to do that that I know of is Behavioral Therapy. It may take years to get to the root cause of your anxiety problems.
Hypnosis can help you relax at it can be somewhat effective that way. But to cure the neurosis which results in Anxiety you need to understand your body's reaction-and that takes therapy and hard work.
Phil,
If you are receptive to being hypnotized it is a better way to get to you to open up and remember anything that either scared you badly or traumatised you in the past which, you have tried to block. Behavioral therapy cannot do that, I know behavioral therapy would not work for me.
HI!
I am okay! I have a slight headache but not too bad. I hope it won’t get worse
That’s good to hear! I hope it gets better as the day goes on!
Thank you! I hope you’re having a wonderful day!
Has anyone else had success with Anxiety reduction with Hypnosis? I have used hypnosis in the past for promoting relaxation and I believe it can be used for that. But my experience has been hypnosis is not as effective as Behavioral Therapy for identifying the underlying cause of neurosis and anxiety. You need to consciously confront the cause of your anxiety to defeat it and that can't be done through hypnosis. But let me know if you've had success this way, I'm willing to try anything.
I’m going to start to play FarmVille now xD
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