Need some reassurance

Hi all,
I have had a little setback in my recovery and just need some positive words. I am on week 7 of Lexapro and really have been doing so much better. My emotions have been under control and I feel like my anxiety has been under control until this past weekend. My family came to the city (I live about 5 hours away from them in NYC) for a baptism and it was pretty rough. Dinner with my parents and boyfriend was great but I really have a lot of tension with my father. I am working through it in therapy but it's pretty bad. He is a very negative person and fairly emotionally and verbally abusive to me and my family. He was especially mean and rude during the baptism which upset me greatly and I have had some lingering anxiety and slight depression for the last four days since. I know that this is due to what happened and not an indicator of how I am progressing on the medicine. It is normal to feel sad in a situation like that right? Now the topic of divorce has come up for my parents and it's made everything worse for me. I didn't take Klonopin for a stretch of 5 days (yay!) and was really progressing up until the day of the baptism. Now I am back to taking a small daily dose of Klonopin (.0125) once a day and I am discouraged. Just need some positive words. Thanks!

I would love some resources if you could share! I have tried some breathing techniques but I just don't really know what to do now. Thank you so much for your support. It helps :)

Just an update: doing much better. It seems I can bounce back from feeling down so much faster now which is great. No Klonopin in 4 days and looking forward to a girls trip to Vegas this weekend. I had my first glass of wine in 3 months this weekend (only one, as I feel like I should really ease into it) and it was nice to just feel normal again, enjoy time with my boyfriends family and relax. Thanks for the support!

So good to read about your quick turn around! Good for you! I could relate to the family triggers that you mentioned . I happened to accidentally tune in to Oprah's Soul Sundays program on tv yesterday. The woman she was talking to basically said that just because someone is blood doesn't mean they are going to behave toward us the way we deserve to be treated. But we can control what we do about it. You deserve to protect yourself and remove yourself from your triggers.
Best wishes!

I've had years of stress that I thought I'd been handling well until recently caring for my mother until her passing. Since then I havent been able to bounce back and and been plagued with debilitating anxiety and depression. I've been investigating a condition called Adrenal Fatigue. You might want to check into it, too, if you've been stressed for a long time.
Just a thought.
BTW: my attacks come out of nowhere, too, and are the worst during my sleep! JEEZ!!

Post Edited (ForceTheHope) : 5/3/2016 2:35:36 PM (GMT-6)