Recovery Stories? Please share

I'd love to hear any recovery stories out there.

p.s. I haven't had any 'disordered' anxiety in 7 days now and I'm doing a happy dance certainly not considered 'recovered' but definitely in the beginning stages.

Same as S.C. here,
I used to suffer a lot from panic attacks daily (and even during sleep) and I was also suffering from insomnia (sometimes no sleep 3 days in a row, Let the zombie holocaust begin! xD)

But now I am totally free from panics are my sleep pattern is A LOT better now. It's because of my religious use of SSRI medication for 4 yrs in total.

Though, I can't say I got benefits from meds for treating my Health Anxiety problem. I think that problem gets most benefit from therapy option.

But yeah, I have hope... :D

My 'A-ha!' moment...

I actually did not think my CBT sessions were doing anything. I was getting nervous, because it was coming to the end of the alotted time frame that I was to be going in weekly.

However, toward the end of my treatment, I had a panic episode...and was able to stay calm. Though I was having the physical symptoms. ..I was able to just observe them...and even marvel at how the body and mind work together in the flight or fight mechanism.

I continued to gain benefit even after my sessions had come to an end. It was pretty surprising...but I have heard the same from others.

We all have different time frames for healing...the point is to never give up!!

S.C.

Well, 10 years ago my anxiety was so. Bad I could rarely get out of bed and even in bed felt dizzy like I was going to feint. One day after 6 months of that nightmare I went to the er and they gave me an Ativan and I felt better about 5 mins later, then went on paxil and eventually o just forgot to worry and it was great.
Recently after some hard times my anxiety has reared it's ugly head slowly but surely becoming daily again. I upped my paxil dose to 30mg about 12 days ago now, I am feeling better more than not in the past few days which Is progress but what you said about stop checking is really hitting me. Because I have literally been making a point of checking how I feel every hour and I'm not sure that is helping lol, so I will be keeping that in mind from now on, mabye right now is my ah ha moment fingers crossed

Hi, my name is Chris. I'm a 24 year old male. I've had very bad anxiety since I was about 20 years old after I was told I had sinus arrhythmia(which isn't dangerous) I was told to take some medication to help slow down my heart rate but I'm very weird about taking medicines involving heart race. Lol anyway, never took the medicine.. Went away eventually. But now everytime my heart feels funny, I freak out soooo bad! Hyperventilating, feel like I'm for sure gonna die, tunnel vision and super fast heart rate. Go to ER, run tests, I'm fine. ANXIETY was always the doctors answers. They have done everything to test my heart and it comes back normal. I constantly check my pulse and I'm Afraid to physical activity cause of fast heart rate. Over it

Hello Zadra and welcome!

I am sorry that you are going through such anxiety. But you did well by having it checked when you have anxiety about it. The good thing is that since you know you had a diagnosis, you can always have regular check ups to keep it under control.
Then you don't need to worry about it. I hope you feel better soon.

Feel free to post, keep us updated.

**satakt**. Yes! Let's stop checking, fingers crossed for you too :)