Hi all
I've never particularly struggled with my mental health until the past year after a few really rough times(losing my baby at 5 months along followed by recurrent miscarriage). It has all just triggered pff something in my head and been manifesting as really bad anxiety.
I don't tend to get physical symptoms like panic attacks, or have any difficulty socially. It's more a crippling state of constant worry and overthinking. Have the feeling of dread that something bad is going to happen. I asked my doctor for something to help a few months ago and she prescribed a short course of buspirone to tie me over for a couple of weeks to see if it would help. She seemed reluctant to give me something long term as I've never had any problems like this before.
I didn't actually take the medication at the time as I didn't want to rely on it.
But I'm really struggling at the moment with awful health anxiety. I think I relate it to the fact that I feel my body completely failed me (I had a missed miscarriage 21 weeks along). It was such a shock and I suppose triggered off a feeling that there could be something seriously wrong with me and I wouldn't know it.
I have convinced myself I have ms as I've been having some tingling and numbness in hand at night. I've had bloods done and waiting to see gp tomorrow for results. But part of m wonders if I'm overthinking it and creating the symptoms in my head.
So I thought I better take the tablets to see if it helps. Will this type of medication help to ease worry and overthinking? Has anyone else used this for this purpose before?