Hi all my name is Graeme and my wife is currently in a physciatric hospital and has been for last 2 month, and has been in and out for 6 months due to severe anxiety and the feeling of dread,she has been put on a lot of different pills but nothing seems to stop it , she has spoke about taking her own life as it is getting to much for her to take as she sees no way out , all the techniques that she has tried and nothing works or calms it down, i am now scared for her and worried that this will never go away . She suffers bi-polar which when bad the suicidal thoughts are hightened . I am looking for other people out there who suffer or have suffered from this experience to see what they did or are doing to try and calm down the symptons of anxiety .
hi sorry for your families difficult time anxiety is just a symptom of bipolar often times i would suggest personally that you have her stay in a treatment facility for as long as it takes for her to start feeling normal often times it cant take a considerable amount of times before medications even begin to work properly in many cases it can be one month and then if you change medications you must start the process all over again.
rest assured many have gotten through these difficult times i wish you and your wife the best. also dont be afriad to look for another treatment facility or search out an expert in your area sometimes a fresh perspective can help
I can relate. Anxiety is nothing you can use logic on when it is severe. The techniques help when you have lower amounts of anxiety. I always felt out of breath and it felt like I was drowning, Try imagining somebody telling you to breath calmly under water. When you become more scared day after day for no reason and that fear far exceeds the fear of dying… I chose to fight and stay alive for others, not myself. The wrong choice would have been easier at the time. The first time this happened to me was actually from a bad side effect of medication that they gave me to treat minor depression. They never found anything but a benzodiazepines that helped. I was awake for several days straight and was finally able to sleep after taking my first benzo.
I get many physical symptoms like my resting heart rate of 170 BPM. For myself I never had negative thoughts, just extreme anxiety for no reason that I could figure out. The only thing that helped me was distractions, conversations that forced me to think. Sometimes thinking can be hard in that state. Sometimes I just wanted complete silence and for everybody to keep distance away from me though, it felt claustrophobic and I would snap at people in anger. The anger however was not directed at people although it may look that way. It was just frustrating how hard life became for no logical reason. It was anger at my current situation. Other times it felt better to know I was not alone and the distraction helped. Remembering your own birthday and the current year can be hard. If you dwell on the fact you are having so much trouble thinking it will make the anxiety worse. I had to learn to laugh at my struggles because you can either laugh or cry.
I am currently improving but it is not easy. Baby steps are always welcomed. I don’t know if I will ever be the carefree person I was in the past again. But I don’t care about that anymore. I am perfectly happy with the imprisonments that I have made. If I can no longer do things like bungee cord jumping or roller coaster so be it. I am learning to enjoy the simple beauty of life.
I will be praying for you and your wife. I know this was also very hard for my spouse to handle.