Anxiety help, can anyone relate ?

[Mummyrj18]

A few weeks a ago I began having anxiety attacks and a ‘breakdown’ if that’s the best way to put it.
At the moment I finding it unbearable the intrusive thoughts, mainly telling me that I don’t love my daughter anymore( I also have an older son). Why would my brain make me think such awful things ? As soon as I tell myself I know it’s not true another thought will hit me that I’m jealous of daughter or that she annoys me. It makes me feel sick to my stomach and I wake up in a panic. We have always been so close I just want that feeling back.
I have started sertraline which has helped in the past with anxiety. Can anyone relate ? I feel so disgusted with myself 😞

I can relate, about 6 months ago I started having very intrusive and negative thoughts about my husband and our marriage which came as such a shock as we are very happy. These thoughts are hugely unwelcome but the more I attempt to rationalise them the more I seem to believe them to be true and it's brought on the most dreadful anxiety. I'm currently 3 weeks into taking 50mg sertraline which has helped a little bit but progress feels very slow. I'm booked for some CBT which I hope will help. It's really hard and utterly consuming I know x

I have just started reading this book which seems helpful so far . . .

www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Unwanted-Intrusive-Thoughts-Frightening/dp/1626254346

Thank you I feel so down now it’s hard to see my way out of it but trying so hard...do you talk to other people about it ? Helps me sometimes but then I get lost in my thoughts again 😞I hope you feel better soon xx

How are you doing now @parkmama ? Made any progress ? X

Hi @Mummyrj18 I'm doing ok thanks, week 8 of medication now and 2 sessions down of cbt. It feels like a slow journey but it is getting better all the time. How are you? x

That’s good ! I’m definitely doing better still have the thoughts but coping better with them I think. Feels very slow too just want to feel normal again. Would love to try cbt too xxx

Mummyrj18

I can relate to the intrusive thoughts
Although mine are about things I think I can’t do
Simple to probably most people
About getting out, my thoughts are
Telling me I can’t do it, I get terrible bodily sensation that then tell me
I won’t feel good and round and round it goes

You can do cbt free online. Google
Or nhs self referrals
It’s a lottery who you get. Good/not so good
Also waiting times