Did anyone elses anxiety get way worse and create even more irrational thoughts when beginning antidepressants? I began taking Prozac last week and had a bad reaction to it so the doctor switched me to lexapro. I have only take lexapro twice so far and yesterday afternoon, I actually had the best afternoon I have had in weeks. Today, I haven't taken it yet because I am trying to start taking it at bedtime and my anxiety has just been nuts.. I am having thoughts about being scared that I am going to end up being a bad person and hurt people. I've even been thinking that I am scared to have kids because I will hurt them in some way. I have never hurt a person or any other living thing and would never want to but my anxiety is starting to produce these thoughts and I am legit scared of what I am going to turn into or that I am going crazy. Has this happened to anyone else?
Megan hope you get some replies as I have seen postings with exactly the same symptoms after starting these meds, just wanted to reasure you, speak to your doctor as well, he/ she will reasure you it's just a side effect( awful I know) or perhaps change med, they will have seen this before❤️
I just changed meds this past weekend and I so far like the lexapro more than the prozac. I think my problem is that I just get stuck in a vicious cycle of negative thinking and it spurs one bad thought off of another. I hate it so much. I just want to be back to my normal self. I have an appointment with a counselor but it isn't for another week and that just seems like forever from now.
I didn't experience any increase when I started taking meds. Took about 3-4 weeks until I noticed some improvement.
Megan please stick in there, I know every day seems to drag,with negative thoughts driving us crazy, glad your seeking help, here as well as counciling, you want to get your life back and it is possible, I was a lost cause , thought I would go mad with what I call ' washing machine head,' people here with great relaxation and meditation tips, worth a try, keep busy , talk, night times can be bad, are you really tired or struggling to sleep? Take every day as a day nearer to more help, tell councillor everything, it is possible to manage anxiety , the thoughts are scary And irrational, it's frustrating that we can't just shake them off. Others here may have advice on how they cope, keep posting.(it helps) ❤️
I am not having difficulty getting to sleep but I wake up in the late/early hours and have trouble going back to sleep because of all of the over thinking.
Great you manage to get to sleep. I would be awake all night. Negative thoughts going round . Then I would nod off for maybe an hour then wake with heart racing and thoughts started again. Seriously going from that to today is like night and day, when my heart races now or my head starts I think oh 'here we go' and I know it will pass, it takes time and a lot of help and effort but you can get a life back. It seems impossible at mo, it's really got you down but look for similarities here, you can relate to other people's anxiety and hopefully fight the negative thoughts with positive ones that people do have productive lives despite anxiety❤️
I was put on Fluoxetine last month and at first it seemed to work, I actually felt better on it after coming off of Mirtazapine (it made me feel drowsy all the time and really sleepy so the doctor changed it) and I was getting horrible suicidal thoughts everyday just lingering in the back of my mind, I even thought of things to do and I went on Holiday two weeks ago and our caravan was next to a railway track and so I thought about jumping in front of the train, I've even had harmful thoughts towards my dog whilst we were in the car, it was terrible.
Now my anxiety is playing up and I'm afraid to go to sleep as I think I'll never wake up, I'm afraid to hear a certain word and when I see it being brought up on TV, etc everyday I think it's a sign that something is going to happen to me.
I rang up 111 last night because my mum said it's the tablets and I read the leaflet it comes with and it mentions about making anxiety and depression worse and so I ended up going to A&E to see a Mental Health Liason who tried to help me and explained that the medication does make you feel like at and that it should get better and to stick with it.
I get the same same thoughts Megan they are ruining my life trying to pull me away from my girlfriend it's killing me , I'm taking sertraline and not sure if it's made it worse or not or if I have OCD