I have mentioned bits of this on a couple of other threads, but feel I need to put it in one place.
Just after new year, I woke up in the night after a horrid, graphic nightmare. Heart pounding, drenched in sweat. It involves a sort of eco-apocalypse and my kids. Came out of the blue. No prior problems.
For days afterwards, I couldn't shake it. I then started having really intrusive 'end of the world' type thoughts all the time - even throwing a crisp packet in the bin could set me off.
I am normally very mentally robust. Had some (not formally diagnosed) depression as a teenager, but nothing for 20 years. The thing that normally calms me down after a rough day is snuggling up with my kids, but I was finding even that could set off the anxiety and bring me close to tears.
I am now struggling with a racing heart. Not panic attacks exactly (I had them a few times as a teen too), just periods where I feel like my heart is going far too fast and my chest is being sat on.
I am exhausted all day and fall asleep quickly but often wake in the night and don't feel refreshed in the morning. I am permanently irritable.
Also, although I'm supposedly on a diet to shift the last of the baby weight (18 months old now), I am not really eating much differently. Yet I've lost half a stone in two weeks.
I have tried to make a doctor's appointment once, but the appointment time got ballsed up and I had to cancel. I now have to wait until Monday for another one. In the meantime, does anyone have any idea what could be wrong with me? The obvious thing seems to be some sort of depression, but I just don't understand how that would come on literally overnight in someone who has no real history. I feel like I'm losing my mind!
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What the hell is wrong with me?
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LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 21/01/2016 13:55
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