So I’ve made so many discussions but I feel like I cannot get this under control... I was doing so much better on 10mg of Celexa and I’m on week 7 now but about a week before I was having severe PMS and the intrusive thoughts came back, I got such bad tension headaches, felt disconnected again, couldn’t sleep without waking up in a panic, and I just feel scared of literally everything. I’m so exhausted I just don’t want to feel this way anymore. It doesn’t help when I have all these uncomfortable thoughts about life and feeling like I’m not here to really dark ones where I just can’t control them. I’m focusing on them so much but I can’t help it. Everything just feels so weird and I’m so done with this. But I’m fighting, i just want to be normal again and not feel all these terrible things. It’s been a long 5 months 
I don’t know if it’s because it’s that time of the month or I’m just going to be crazy.
I know howho you feel, I would get them from time to time (the intrusive thoughts), and I get everything ur describing, what I tend to do when I have these intrusive thoughts is I trick the mind, say if I was to cross a bridge or open a window, I would trick my mind and say, the window doesnt extend enough, the window isnt big enough for me to jump, or the railing of the brigde is too high, I cant reach over it, etc. Try speaking to ur dr aswell and see what they can suggest, with anxiety/ocd theres often a trigger, and once you know the trigger, you can block it, when id have a panic attack, I tell my mind I can breath, iv done this before and walk it off, just basically seperating yourself from the thoughts or panic, when u get the tense headaches, try sleeping, ik its hard at times cuz the mind never stops thinking, but comfort yourself every night, reassure yourself, you will get better, listen to music if you have to, when these thoughts occur I usually wait it out. Excercise may help u,idk, but keep going, changing my diet is also helping me, but yh I hope this helped, let me know how it goes
And ur probably hormonal aswell
Or you may need to Up your dose of celexa. Talk to doc. Im just starting my second week of serzone
Well, youre certainly not crazy. Hang in there!
Jess
Anxiety can be quite hard to control and sometimes the need of support is advised, where someone can take you by your hand and encourage you to move on from this problem
At this stage you may be advised to contact your GP once more and He will arrange a treatment plan for you.
You can break up your fears into small bites and address each bite in small steps forward. You address your fears the same way. For example you are frightened to go outside
1 You go to the front door, get used to that
2 You turn the Lock
3 You open the door
4 You walk outside onto the doorstep.
5 You close the door
6 You walk to the gate, open it.
7 Go for a walk
You do not do everything at once, take it on over time so the biggest problem opening the door is done on several occasions etc
BOB
It’s really hard when all these hormones happen and I’m not sure what it is... I’ve always struggled with Imbalanced hormones but can that cause OCD/anxiety? I’ve just never had these kind of thoughts ever. So I’m unsure it makes me feel bad. I’m so exhausted too not feeling like myself.
I may go back, I just have to wait. But thank you! Good luck!!
I appreciate that, I’m so tired of this feeling
Thank you for the steps, I may start practicing that. I’ve been having trouble getting out because I’m scared of nothing. But I may up my dose. Or just try to get an appointment somewhere.
Hi jess
Im going through this exact same thing now. I have had anxiety on and off for about 10 urs its lwys been health anxiety but since having a baby last year its turned into oct intrusive thoughts and depression. I have been taking 15mg of fluoxetine and this has helped with the depression and the thoughts but my anxiety is worse than before i started in terms of physical symptons. I keep havibg these episodes were i go really dizzy and my beck and back and head hurt im also having awful chest pain and fettibg a sharp pain in my rib.
Im really worried. Im here to talk i think it helps to talk to someone going through the same xxx
Hi nicole i suffer with this too and im sorry u do aswel. Im really interested in your nessage when you say there is a trigger because i have no idea what my trigger is. Have u any advice of how i can get to the bottom if it xxx
Do you think that it’s just too much stress on our bodies that produce all these terrible thoughts? I’m trying to figure it out because they scare me and I’ve never thought these kind of things before. Do you get a lot done with the physical symptoms? I can’t seem to
I was just like you at first, I had no clue for what my trrigger was, until I started going to my therapy sessions, one thing that people have in common I.e. trigger wise is that, people start feeling anxious in a environment surrounded by people becuase they r afraid that they r going to get a panic attack, this can be embarrassing to the person, therefore the body starts going into a fight or flight moment, so controlling that by reassuring and telling yourself that your not going to go in a panic state, kind of calms you down, finding my trigger was like being somethin I was allergic to, in a sense where if I saw or heard anythin that distressing to me like hearing about death, I would often notice, I panic straight away, there I found my trigger, I strongly advise cognitive behavioural therapy as this may/will help people exploring their triggers and find coping mechanisms/strategies to tackling these triggers or thoughts. Hope this helped
I have never had the thought either untill this time. All my physical symptoms are geart related so have me worried all the time. I am off work sick st the moment but try to keep myself busy to take my mind away from how bad i feek xxx
Thankyou nicole i have done therapy in the past but i think i may speak to my gp and try it again.
Thanks again im so glad your feeling a little bit more in control. Do you mind me asking how old you are and if you take medication for it xxx
When im hormonal I my anxiety starts to worsen, because it can cause a drop in seratonin levels and hormones such as eostrogen, progesterone and testerone fluctuate and with eostrogen dropping, this makes us emotional alot, and if ur on medication check with ur GP to see what they say, but you will be ok, ur strong, and theres so many people here to help, and meet up with some friends aswell to take the edge off things, having company really makes a difference, hoped this helped u
Hi jess. Have you tried relaxation , mindfulness, helps lots of people here. I ding it hard to switch intrusive thoughts off , they seem to creep back and just can't switch them off. Like you I have times with anxiety when I have a feeling of dread as soon as I wake , racing heart and racing thoughts but then I can have good patches when I am much calmer. When you're thoughts start Jess imagine a blackboard, write all the thoughts on the blackboard then imagine yourself staring at the board then rubbing all the thoughts away until you are staring at a clear board, tell yourself it they have gone, you have scrubbed them out , keep staring at the blank board. Keep repeating this. Try to fight the thoughts , they are harmless but just irritating and frustrating as we can't switch them off. So many relaxation techniques, hope you can find something that helps, know it drives us mad.😊❤️
Im 18 and I take no medication, Iv developed ocd, but iv found ways, in kind of dealing with it whereby I take time out n let my thoughts repeat, I also keep myself distracted aswell so that my ocd and anxiety are supressed, finding something to do that u r really passionate about n that excites you is one of the best things in life that makes it worth living, and also having a good group of friends that understand and support u, freezes the anxiety, sorry if I went on, I do talk alot lol
Is it something that develops? No one in my family has it so I’m confused where it came from... one day I was have thoughts about being alive, worried I left the stove on had to check everything I left, thinking someone put poison in my drink even though no one was home. Just weird things then they got super weird and scary and then violent even to the point I couldn’t leave the house or hangout normally with people because I kept having panic attacks! It’s definitely more under control from taking medication but I’m still having moments I’m not sure if it’s because of hormones. Or if this is all because of my hormones. I really hope to overcome this and not think about it ever again