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Posted 7/18/2012 3:37 AM (GMT 0)
I've gone a good 5 or 6 months pretty much free from attacks or bad anxiety and now that I've started therapy back up (I got in a program for my eating disorder) the attacks are back, and though now I know how to deal with them, how to change my thoughts and get through the day and know better than to let it effect my quality of life, IT'S SUCH A darn *****.

I'm tired, fatigued, keep getting vertigo, have an increased appetite, I'm so done with this and so frustrated.
I'm trying to figure out what triggered it all again? Was it possibly looking into my past because I see it as traumatic? I feel like a wreck...

One of the girls from my group uses passion flower, I wonder if that helps...

It'd be nice if the room didn't spin so often.

Can anyone relate?
Posted 7/18/2012 4:14 AM (GMT 0)
Dizziness is the worst!!! I have this often as a symptom and it's pretty awful.

I am not sure if you meant true vertigo, or just the dizzy feeling that anxiety can bring on. If it is the latter, then breathing exercises can be really helpful! (we have links in our Resources that teach these)

If you are dealing with true vertigo...in other words a change in the inner ear structure/function, then your doctor should be able to help you treat that with medication, physcial therapy or both.

As far as your symptoms being exacerbated by your recent return to therapy...I am sure you are right...old issues being brought to the surface are bound to be triggers. However, you have to move through something to put it behind you right? So keep up the good, all be it hard, work!

Keep posting with us...we understand and care.:)

S.C.
Posted 7/18/2012 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
My therapist always warned me that those sessions when we addressed the traumatic would bring up some elevated anxiety and depression for the week to follow. She was usually correct. So don't feel like you alone in this. I always just remind myself I will come out stronger for itin the end.
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