Thank you everyone, this has been really helpful. Its just really terrifying for the whole family (probably especially mum, although she seems elated most of the time)...
Hello My mum has recently been diagnosed with bipolar after a psychotic episode caused by mania. Initially, she was responding really well to her medication, and over the first couple of weeks, she...
Hi everyone So, this is an odd experience. I used to use this board for my panic attacks/GAD, but now i come here to write about my mum. My mum is 68 years old - she's always been a bit on the...
Its been a rough few days. Maybe longer without me noticing. My partner drinks quite a lot. Twice just over a week ago he came home and vomited everywhere, and i had to clean it up I had to call for...
hello, this all sounds VERY similar to me, and i understand how frustrating and EXHAUSTING it is - its relentless. I suffer with anxiety and panic - i was convinced i had hiv and wouldn't even...
Hello Healingwell family - its been a while! I hope you are all well and happy? My anxiety has been pretty well behaved recently - still get the occasional panic attack and worry a lot about things....
thank you so so much for all these replies - everything everyone has said has been so helpful to me....
I don't know where to start. Been on prozac (40mg a day) for 8 weeks (after 4 weeks on 20mg) and was just starting to feel the benefit. Also taking 1 beta blocker a day. My psychotherapist is working...
is that 6-8 weeks of the 40, or 6-8 weeks in total? Thank you for your reply, and sorry to nag on, i'm just at my wits end a bit....
I'm 22 and i have had panic disorder on and off since i was 18 :-( I had a bad bout of it for about 6 months, and then i was fine until just this year when i let things get back on top of me again....
i've just started taking fluoxetine for panic disorder with agoraphobia - its been 4 weeks - i was on 20mg for the first 3 weeks, and then i've been put up to 40mg for the past week. The first 2...
the headaches could be your body getting used to the prozac? I am going onto prozac and i've had that side effect, but its easing off (i hope) about a week in....
those of you who have read my posts recently will know i am suffering from panic disorder with possible OCD or GAD. I was on fluoxetine for a year and a half but came off of it last summer and was...
thankyou so much Janetlee i hadn't seen that before - i will see how tomorrow goes headache wise and then get in touch with my doctor. I just slept all day today and apparently i was crying in my...
hmmm it wasn't as good as i had hoped it would be - he basically filled out a form for me to see the local cousellor - but i've seen him before and he wasn't very helpful i didn't think. Also now i'm...
thank you all so much for your support, it helped me so much as it always does. I got to see the doctor today and he was really great and listened (i think he could tell how shaken i was) - he has...
I think i've finally gone as far as i can on my own :-( i honestly feel like i am right on the edge of something massive and that i'll just completely lose my mind. Work is still terrible. Everyday i...
i have had bad jealousy issues with my partner (i'm the jelous and anxious one) and to be honest our situation sounds very simular! First off, about the social thing - you might find that he does...
just knowing i had replies helped me so much, you have no idea how much this site has helped me over the past few years. I deffinetly agree Janetlee - i have enrolled to start school here in my home...
things have been really bad again. I want to cry. I have been having bad panic and anxiety again, and i just want to vent. I was doing so well, i had moved to London and got into the uni i wanted....
Hello everyone, long time since i've been on here writing - i hope you are all well, and still think this web site is completely fantastic! When i was first diagnosed with having anxiety, depression,...
i had terrible HIV anxiety and understand how completely absorbing it can be. Before i met my current partner (we've been together for about a year and a half) I went through a bad stage just after...
Urgh i can relate to this - i get so nervous about long journeys! I think the important thing to remember is you will be there with people who love you and people that understand that you might get...
i find the Shin's "Chutes Too Narrow" album quite inspirational, and anything by patty griffin!...
i have been meaning to sit down and write on this for a while but i honestly haven't had time untill just now. Because (belive it or not) my life is quite full again. I was under a lot of stress with...
oh dear - me again. Since taking 2 Prozac a day my panic attacks have pretty much stopped and i am not agrophobic anymore - infact i work crazy long hours and have a jam packed social life and am...
i seem to have a good few weeks and then the smallest thing sets me off and i am back to square one. Just like 4 weeks ago i thought "i am rehabilitated, i feel fine" but then i got some fluey thing...
i feel sick pretty much all the time, does anyone else get this with depression and anxiety? it really worries me...
i have started feeling sick a lot of the time again, not just in panic attacks but like a kind of queezy feeling all the time. Does anyone else get this with anxiety? will it ever go away for good?...
ok,so... I finally thought things were going right, my panic attacks had cut right down, i got a new job, i felt uplifted, things seemed ok. But suddenly things have took a dive and it leaves me...
there are various products around, its worth speaking to a doctor about over the counter products. There are things that freeze the glands, like a spray sort of thing that is just available in...
oh man YES!!! seriously, before i knew it was panic and anxiety, i had pretty much every stomach test. I get nausea, or pain, or indigestion, you name it i get it. It starts just a little when i'm...
i remember mine. I had been pretty badly sexually abused for about 2 years by a family friend, and when i was about 9 i finally told my parents and they sorted it all out for me. Even though my...
hello, im sorry you're having such a hard time, i also have panic disorder and it really is just horrible. BUT just as something to inspire you and give you hope, i spent a year in my house, barely...
firstly i want to say sorry for not replying to previous posts. I really appriciate all the wonderful encouragement i got, i just can't seem to concentrate on things or pull myself together, but i...
can anybody please explain "dissociation" to me? when used in a mental health context?...
i really need help with my diagnosis. I need more help then what i am being given from my doctors, i think there is a lot more wrong then they think, how do i get a better diagnosis? i am struggling...
i feel like i am in some sort of coma, or like there is all this smoke in my head. I got diagonsed with panic disorder, depression, agraphobia and ocd after spending close to a year in my house too...
hello everybody, me again, i am becomming quite the regular. I hope you are all doing ok? I went to see a doctor today and she said that because i have been on anti depressants for panic disorder for...
Hello all, Thank you so much for your support, i honestly don't know what i would have done without this forum over the passed 5 months, it has really saved me on quite a few occasions i think. I...
I have just turned 20. As you may know from my other posts, i have been suffering from anxiety, depression and panic disorder over the past year and became agraphobic for about 6 months. I am on...
hello, i started taking prozac 20mg daily at the beginning of August, but i went up to 40mg daily in September, and since then (now December) i have had this cloudy discharge from my penis on three...
I'm from England so it hink things might be slightly different these ways. I think you are right though, i should probably talk to my doctor about all this, i'm just really scared of what she will...
Hello, sorry i only just saw this! I am from Leicester, East Midlands! i have suffered from panic disorder, depression, ocd, and possible GAD or Bi polar. I am 20, male, =)...
ok, i'm not even sure where to start, i just feel like a royal mess to be honest. Firstly i will apoligise for all my other posts on here, you can tell when i'm anxcious because i post on here about...
i have had a quick read around but couldn't find anything that matched exactly, so i thought i would go ahead and post, so here we go. I have Panic disorder and started taking prozac 4 weeks ago,...
hello, i am 19, male I have been stuck in my home for about a year now. I got really depressed last summer and spent the whole summer avoiding friends, snapping at people, being generally moody and...
thanks that's eased my mind! I'm just so down at the moment and i really can't bare this much longer. I think if i could just be free of the panic attacks for a little while, i'm almost sure i could...
hello everyone, i have an anxiety disorder, basically whenever i'm in a situation i cannot controll i get really sick. The rest of the time i panic that i've got some horrible illness that will make...
thanks a lot everyone, you have eased my mind SO much, you're all great!...