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This is really a travesty. There is such blindness to these two problems: Pain and any sort of emotional disorder, or whatever you call it. This doctor treated you with such disrespect that I'd be...
I guess I overlooked introducing myself... Just read all the posts in this thread and was amazed at the incredible amount of challenges so many of you deal with. Humbled me. I am 43, divorced mom of...
Lyn, Your story made me cry. Thank you for sharing. Happened to read the post right now, when I most needed to read it, without knowing, of course!...
Oh yeah, I do forgive for that one! In fact, I sort of think it is funny to be so unaware of everyone else and so super aware of me self!...
I totally understand the phone thing - I had it, too. I started a job where I had to talk to people on the phone and it was very hard for me, too. I had all the feelings you mention. The two things...
I can not imagine doing that to someone - just making it so the key won't work!! Jeepers. Yet it seems to be somewhat common! Usually, the stories I hear are men doing the no-notification...
Sounds like you are doing the work you need to do. That's great. I think you are totally right that keeping it to yourself makes it harder and probably makes the fear of being crazy even worse. When...
Did you find out that all those other symptoms were SA? I am sure many many many people use alcohol, other substances to help with different anxieties. (I know that's why I drank so heavily in...
Ok, I read those and I find myself VERY uncomfortable with many of them. Did you when you first saw them? Does anyone else? Like #2 - I have the right to offer neither reason nor excuse to justify my...
I am okay. Sorry....
MPD, your post came in while I was writing mine. That;s a good idea. I should do that next time I try to contact him maybe. Force myself to do that first. The "BAD" would be much longer. Today one of...
Hey y'alls. Thanks for the check-ups and check-ins. Bit of a wreck here. What I want more than anything is to have SOME control over my emotions. I go from feeling glad he's gone, to texting and...
Did not take bath, did walk to store! Took bath today and went to the DMV so I can drive my vehicle again! But... also did some backwards behavior. Oh well. But, I'll take them chips! Kit, I though...
Thanks, lovely ladies. Your words are so calming. I agree wholeheartedly that it is good he is gone, now comes the hard part of teaching my heart and body that they are really happy about it, too!...
Thanks, kitt! I am not feeling very wonderful. Worried about how to find therapy, as the one on Thursday did not work out. Am feeling so incapacitated by anxiety and obsessive thoughts that I am...
I wonder if I would get a piece of a chip if i manage to get out of bed and into the bath that is waiting, and brush my teeth and put on clothes and walk to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes?...
Here's a youtube video of an ABC news report on this Paxil thing, if that is ok to post. The problem I have with this video and other stories is that they do not make it clear that the withdrawal can...
Did you tell doctor? Getting off Paxil is VERY VERY VERY intense for many people. There is even a class action lawsuit against the company because they did not admit how bad the withdrawal is. When I...
Thanks all. I hear what you are saying Kit. Some of it felt hard to read and I wanted to defend myself, but I am sure it is all true or close enough. And I am VERY glad to get feedback and help, even...
thanks all. feeling better today, actually. feel some relief. still miss him and still can't shake the feeling that he is not a bad person, but just wounded and stuck in his own way. mom is here, and...
Sorry that was so long. Just feel so lost. Even though my mother is here and she loves me (too much), I feel utterly alone. I feel as if BF and I never knew each other. I feel alone....
Boy, what a night I had Tuesday. I posted last week or so about my challenging relationship with my boyfriend. Well, things got better, and then worse. Saturday: He had a severe panic attack himself,...
Shelly, did they check the functioning of your adrenal and thyroid glands? This sounds so miserable. I get diarrhea from anxiety, for sure, and also from fish and dairy and oily foods. Boy, it can be...
Yay for leaving the bad behind! I read the book, "When your perfect lover goes perfectly wrong." That one was so spot-on to my last relationship that nearly every sentence is underlined... It's eery...
Oh, that's so hard....
You are INDEED very brave. Wow. Impressed....
hope all is okay. thinking of you...
Wow, that's a pretty darn nice message, coming from such an obviously giving person! It really does strike me that there's a lot of caring going around....
Yeah, Harlan, I really hope that when "Friend" is gone you will get some relief from the yo-yo ride. It is so draining, isn't it? It gets in the way of the rest of my life to be dealing with the...
Hi Harlan, Thanks for Asking! I started to feel like I was posting wayyyy too much, because I like to write so much, so I took a few steps back to Think rather than Apply Ink. I'm doing OK. Actually...
So, in another topic, nervymeg mentioned looking at the gifts that being more sensitive can bring to us. What a fascinating idea! It ties in with something I've been thinking for a few years, and...
That is so sad, kitt. I am sorry. What a horrible thing for you to go through....
That friend sounds like a real meanie! Glad you are able to decide to move him along! It sounds like you must have to spend a lot of time and energy dealing with and recovering from all of the...
That is certainly a saintly way to deal with a lunch-thievin' friend! I used to have many many superstitions - stepping on a crack, ladder, the salt-spilling one. Until reading this thread I never...
That sounds really upsetting. I understand your need to know what happened after the trauma of witnessing something so unexpected and awful. I got the feeling from what you wrote that you sort of...
Stkitt: You are right, these people are giving me such incredible support and advice. From the reading I've done on the forum so far, I have to say this is the most sane board I've ever seen! So far...
I tell you a funny thing about this relationship - because he abandons me SO frequently, I've actually gotten a bit better about the abandonment issues. He has pushed me and pushed me and I, like a...
Oh, those zaps are horrible. I got them even if I was just a few hours late on my dose. Is your doc a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse-practitioner? Lots of regular medical doctors prescribe these...
That's an important point, about getting rest. The anxiety is so exhausting, as is the parenting of a 2 year old! Of course, it's hard for other to understand why you need rest from anxiety......
Thanks all, and hope you heal fast, Kitt. It means a lot to me to read people saying that it is weird to not answer my calls, etc. It is just "my" problem, to him. He often portrays it as if I'm...
Hello, I have had anxiety for all of my life, to varying degrees. Usually it revolves around social situations. Nowadays, I can teach classes, or do public speaking with pleasure, but a family event,...