I've only been dealing with anxiety for a very short time but things were progressing very well. I've been seeing a counselor, exercising every day and have even been refining my diet.
A little under a week ago I ended up getting a minor cold ( sore throat, minor fever, running nose ) and during that time my anxiety got very hard to handle and the intrusive thoughts got at times very disturbing and intense. Before the cold I was doing ok but since the cold my anxiety symtoms have come back stronger and the intrusive thoughts have went from ignorable to unavoidable and hard to manage. I'd never commit suicide ( and I would and will NEVER !!! consider it at any time what so ever ) but the mere thought crossed my mind and that scared the sh*t out of me that the intrusive thoughts are starting to get this bad.
Over that time with the cold the left side of my brain off and on has felt like pins were pricking it in certain spots and I get this slightly warm sensation in my head. I've tried fighting this without medication and with counseling.
.....I'm asking for advice on weather its time for me to see a psychiatrist and consider getting on medication or if this is just the extreme side effects of the cold I'm going through.