Severe Anxiety and hair loss and PROPANOLOL bad experience

Mental health
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Heya!

My name is Emilie, I am 25 year old and just diagnosed with severe anxiety (after the last 8 year thinking I was bipolar/skizo and every ilness I new off...I had to stop studying medecine because I was getting every symptoms we were studyng haha)

I have struggled with anxiety since I am 16, fell into depression when I was 17 untill 19, I manage to get out of it on my own with philosophy. I was living alone and it was a very horrible time. I never want to go back to this period and make sure that if I recognize de symptons, I run away. I have done a panic attack this january in the UK (after seeing my family since more than a year) and OF COURSE what they prescribed me was propanolol, 10mg to start with, I highered the dose to 20 and sometimes 30... but I had nightmare, visual halucinations and I slowly got depressed. I realised on a trip to moroco with my parents that I had no joy of life anymore and my dad had noticed a huge amount of hair everywhere.I stoped taking propanolol and a few days latter i could feel a huge diffrence...But not hair wise, since than (or before but I didnt notice it) I have lost 2/3 of my hair and have bold patches slightly... I want to believe it is anxiety ... and my anxiety wants to believe I have alopecia areota.. Doctors just started to take this case seriously now that the bold pacthes are showing. Anyway, do any of you suffer from hair loss?

Other problem, I am now in Cairns, Australia. I struggle with severe every day anxiety and can not work anymore.. I can but it puts me into state that are ridiculous. I am doing some volonteering diving (day trip and liveabroad) but I always get so anxious, cry, freak out about anything, want to cancel before the trip. During the trip I enjoy half of the time and half of the time i am thinking of running away ( and OMG I am going to go bald ).

I have boyfriend that I really like and enjoy being with..but every 5 day I want to break appart because I can not stand the anxiety this relation is bringing me ( jalousy, scared that he will leave me...) I am madly jalouse ( i even get jalous when my boyfriend is talking to another guy or imagine incredible situation that he is cheating on me whilest I am in the room next door) ANYWAY!

This doesnt have to be like this....does it? Doctore prescibed me citalopram ... Psyologist also strongly advise me to take some druggs to help me and have a normal life....

I can not imagine this is the best answer to chronic anxiaty... What are your thoughts on druggs for sensitive people like me? (i am sensitive toward anything, cafein alcohol weed valium and so on).

I should add that my farther is kbipolar and more have chronic anxiety also. Both are currently on anti-depress.

 

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Hi Emilie, all you have described is anxiety related no doubt including the hair loss, I've seen a post on here before about it. My wife's hair thins when she goes through a period of stress. You may be able to source something called regaine which you dab or spray onto the scalp and it stops and regains hair loss.

Continue taking Citalopram and whatever meds your psychiatrist recommends and seek out a good therapist to talk too.

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Hi! Today has been a very low day, I did a little pannic attac whilest checking all the disease that can cause a permenant hair loss, walking home, I could feel my eye droping, tired, people staring and went home to sleep to avoid all of the thoughts. I have a general feeling of being "mentaly unhealthy" like I should stay in bed and sleep off this feeling sad /anxious/not being abble to acchieve anything.

I decided to take my first citalopram, 10 MG. After 30 minutes a could feel drugged up, a bit daisy and had an urge of walking in front of a car..... wich happens in my low times but did not happen in a while. But 10 minutes after I felt weird and dizzy happy. It settle within an hour and I could feel only stress free.

My jaw is thow tense since an hour.

I wonder if this strong urge of going in front of the car is due to the citalopram or my state before taking it.