Over the past few weeks I built to a bit of a crisis. I'd been utterly wiped out and exhausted and increasingly anxious. After a week or so of that I went to the GP last Wednesday. Broke down in the GP and stupidly asked for medication. I took one sertraline that afternoon and within 8 hours it was like a bad trip. Extreme nausea, extreme anxiety, auditory hallucinations. I was begging my DH to call 111 to get a prescription for tranquillisers (which he didn't, I calmed down a little).
I spent the next few days feeling utterly shit curled up in bed unable to eat or do anything. Thankfully we were supposed to be on holiday so my DH can look after our DD this week.
When I'm inside I don't feel anxious but I'm ridiculously tired. I feel like I've got permanent jet lag and I keep bumping into things. That said I'm getting better day by day. Today I went out for a walk and I think it was too much. I got utterly exhausted and anxious when we returned.
I've never had mental health issues before so this is all new to me. I think I've identified what triggered this (house move which we've called off) albeit there are other more minor contributing factors.
Because it's new territory I don't know what to do about work. I've told work everything and said I'll take next week off and try and come back the week after. I don't know whether that will be too soon though. Any thoughts?