I don’t as many physical symptoms for me is more intrusive thoughts you know thinking the worst may happen. Have you visit your dr ? I recently went to my dr to check my vitamin D levels since they...
Oh that’s a relief somehow ....then a matter of getting used to it...
Thank you oceanfisher, yes it’s amazing how we all have kind of the same symptoms ...I have experience many different symptoms thoroughtout all of these years but I should admit the anxious thoughts...
Thank you Topo, it makes sense and I know also that everything I read or see that triggers my anxiety stays for a while. Yesterday in the afternoon I read about depression and I did not sleep...
I have a question, I had been taking citalopram 20 mg bought in mexico since I live in the border then this week my dr here in US prescribed me the same meds so I got them at my pharmacy ...is it the...
I have felt the same way this week...so anxious and down at the same time. I have no reason ......
Hi everybody, it’s been a while since I haven’t post ...this has been a long road to recovery this time for sure. I’m currently taking CBT but this anxiety hits me so bad in the mornings and during...
I have an appt with my dr next month and yes I ve consider it but last Time she told me to give it time ..the effect is same as last time except that now it seems that anxiety is stronger...
I do have the symptoms of anxiety I don’t have the symptoms of depression ... and my medication I had taken it before and it worked wonders ....thank you Tim tam......
It’s good that u feel that way and that by reading that column, it helped you....
It’s very true, I mean even now when I talk about my anxiety I see how others open up about their own and just realizing how relieved they also feel it’s very good and make me less anxious too...
Yes that’s what my therapist recommended me, today has been a good day though almost no anxiety ...yesterday it was some anxiety so yes definitely trying it out ...I try to stay optimistic about...
Tim tam what kind of difficulty? I’m not understanding your question?...
Thank you Karen, I will look into that book and yes I try to stay calm because I really don’t want my daughter to see me anxious, I try because I really want to overcome this anxiety once again...I...
Yes I mean I love my family it’s just that they are anxious too I can tell even though they don’t accept it. But my thoughts come from fear...last night my daughter told me “hey mommy when you pass...
Hi Tim tam yes my family is pretty much negative always expecting the worst and “predicting it”, I have never hear them say hey I have a feeling this is going to go well ....total Opposite ...so I...
Yes it is definitely my thinking, Tim tan...I do recognize the problem but, how do I change those ? I mean I have try to accept Then and remember that they are just thoughts but still make me afraid...
Hi, I am doing ok, I have an appointment with a new therapist tomorrow and I will see how it goes. I just want to be back to my old self. I’m still worried about everything and what if I developed a...
I need to practice meditation, I ve tried it but not really to the point where it becomes a habit ...seriously I don’t know what will I do without this forum it has helped me tremendously...
Yes well my therapist thinks I might be depressed and believes I should talk to the dr. But then also knows I’m near that time of the month and can be pms ...I just really hope I can overcome this...
Thank you for your support, as always a big relief, yes so I have started on exercises to overcome it and remember that are just thoughts, today I heard of an exercise that caught my attention, not...
I think I am getting what you re saying ...I mean things that have happened to me make me more scare of the same situations again. For example I am kinda of feeling better about the covid situation...
Yes exactly what I have...intrusive thoughts, anxiety especially if I hear of someone being sick or something that can make me sick ...is a horrible feeling...
Yes still on that, I was fine until this week, it started with a conversation about a Dorito that’s out there that makes you sick so spicy. Since I have been to the hospital for eating spicy my...
Hi there, I’m so anxious right now, I have no desire to harm myself but anxious thoughts come to me about it and it so scary ...I don’t know what to do ...it ha happened to me before I had been ok...
Yes I’m taking citalopram but like you I have an appointment this Friday and I think I might need an increase. I started my med on 08-03 and I felt good within two weeks but after a few more weeks...
Exactly it’s horrible, once I go out of my house or I do something or concentrate at work things get better. It gets very tiring at times...
Another week and it is very exhausting, I feel like crying but I can’t. I have a drs appointment this Friday for my blood work and I will tell her even with my med anxiety is here every day. It seems...
Hi, an ok week, my anxiety comes and goes and got a cold over the weekend. But here we are another week....
Thank you Karen, I am a little better, but I will say not yet where I was before ...I just never thought that after years of not even taking meds and feeling great...there was this again ...anxious...
I’m not sure why my anxiety has not disappear, I have been taking my citalopram for 7 weeks and although I have very good days, other days I struggle waking up with all of these intros I’ve thoughts,...
Hi Y’all, doing better little by little...I know it’s fall but I still feel summer here in Texas, good week so far, except today at the gym, one of those intrusive thoughts got to me while doing...
I’m not sure if it’s health anxiety or general, I have had anxiety for 10 years, i have been on and off from meds, I can say out of those 10 years it has been controlled most of the time to the point...
Yes, I heard an exercise about those thoughts and it helped ...for some reason it made a world of difference. To remember just that ...like a sign along the freeway and not to stop because of it....
Thank you Karen, yes I will Go on Monday, meanwhile I am doing exercises and I’m reminding myself that thoughts are just that. And it works to actually spend time with my family and enjoy them...
Hi again, so I don’t understand why this fear causes my hands sweat and my heart to race. I started citalopram 7 weeks ago and I was feeling fine but this week I started feeling so anxious due to bad...
So it’s been 7 weeks and although I felt great at 4 weeks of taking my med, this week I feel like my anxiety is back, I mean not like before but still feeling those intrusive thoughts making me...
Hi Hibee, Welcoming fall season and for me going back to the gym so it’s good in that sense, even though where I live fall means 80s because most of the time is super hot. Anyways..have had a rough...
Thank you, the way that affects me though is what I don’t like, I don’t take anything else for my anxiety other than my chamomile tea but what I have found helps me a lot is listening to different...
I had been doing great lately, being able to control my fear and anxious thought, classic what if scenarios. Then on Friday I get a really bad news for my family and here I am those what if this...
I am going through the same thing right now Roxy, I mean going through a difficult time with my family and I see my anxiety level go really high, but I’m trying to use other tools to lessen it. I’m...
Better week, I was able to get away the weekend, still feeling a little anxious here and there but managing it so far. GuitarGERD, my condolences to you....
Good morning, guess my med still has not kicked in completely...I’m feeling way better but every once in a while still wake up a bit anxious ...nothing like before though......
Hi you’all I’m doing better, but I still have my anxious days every once in a while. I’m off from work this weeks but my daughter starting school and something new every day with virtual learning....
So I feel like myself again Yei!!! It seems my medication has kicked in. I’m back feeling great and time to focus with therapy....
Hi Tim G, I have heard of Lexapro but I was under the impression that it was the same one. I agree with you on citalopram, smooth and effective....
Hi there, I continue with my medication and I have added b complex and magnesium...still going have good days and then others not so well. But better I can say....
What an anxious morning I have had...you know one part of me is understanding I’m getting better slowly and other part is like desperate to feel relief......
That’s good To hear, I have heard great things about CBT, I am Also starting on it. Support here is awesome, and yes it makes you realize we are not alone....
How are u hector? I m also on citalopram 20 mg and have felt slightly better but still Fighting these anxious thoughts....