Anxiety Issues

Hello and welcome!

I am sorry to hear that your change in med schedule has caused an anxiety breakthrough for you. I understand your reasons for wanting to get off of your meds...and I understand how upsetting it must be to have these new issues pop up.

It's not uncommon for anxiety to include health worries, many members stuggle with this as well. The chest pains that you described can also be an anxiety symptom...but since this can also be mistaken for other physical issues...it is always wise to have this checked by a physician.

What I would do in your situation is look to get into therapy, while getting back on your Rx temporarily. This will give you relief from the anxiety, while you work on gaining the tools to deal with it well. At the conclusion of your treatment in therapy, you could then try to go medication free again...and this time you will be better equipped.:)

Keep posting with us as well...it is great to have a support group to listen to you and to care...and we are glad that you have joined us!

Talk to you soon,

S.C.

I forgot to add a few things; I am 19 years old, and I have had anxiety since I was a kid - I think around 5 years old, although I had severe attachment issues as well, even as an infant. As a kid I and into my mid-teen years I was severely afraid of adult males, especially ones who had power over me, like teachers and doctors; I would get sharp, severe stomach pains if I had to be alone with one. Also, my types of anxiety have changed; as a child, I was always afraid when my parents or sister were not home exactly when they said they would be; I would think they were horribly injured or dead.

I also developed epilepsy when I was about 7 - I was told I was clear when I was 16, and I haven't had a seizure since I was 14. However, I felt horribly ashamed about having seizures, especially in middle school, because joking about people having seizures was quite common (for some reason I cannot fathom).

I have always felt extremely self-conscious (the first time I can remember commenting on my body was when I was about 5; I told my mom I was fat), thinking I am hideously ugly and horribly fat and that everyone finds me unattractive.

I have been in two abusive friendships, one physical, and another sexually and verbally. I have gotten over what happened in both instances (mostly), but I am still horribly afraid of intimacy; I am 19, and I have never been kissed.

At any rate, I have been off the Zoloft since like May, and it seemed at first like things were better; I wasn't having physical symptoms that caused my to panic until like a month ago. Now I just feel like crap, and when I have chest pain, or even when I hurt my neck about two weeks ago I have been freaking out and thinking I am going to die. The chest pain feels like almost constant, and along with it I have pain on my side and sometimes strange tingling/numbness that just comes on and then goes away.


Sometimes I hope that there really is something horribly wrong with me and I just... That doesn't bother me at all.

I have another appointment with my psychiatrist in 10 days, but I don't know how much more of this I can take. I am going insane.

Post Edited By Moderator (Scaredy Cat) : 9/17/2012 1:22:54 PM (GMT-6)

BereniceSnape, you can do this! Look at how much you have already overcome...I see so many things in your post above that are amazing accomplishments and examples of the determination of spirit you have inside you. Please hang in there. Please call the hotline if you need to. And please know that we are here and we care about you!