Hi guys,
Will give you a little background.....I have always been prone to a little stress and occasional panic attacks but for the last two and a half weeks I am very much struggling. When I'm busy and my mind is active on something I am fine but if I'm out on my own I get really dizzy and had to ring my boyfriend in a busy supermarket last week because I thought I was going to faint from anxiety. In January I bought a house and last week I got offered a great new job, these are both great things and I probably sound ungrateful, and maybe the pandemic doesn't help but I am so overwhelmed with very physical anxiety.
My main fears is that its suddenly going to get much worse and I won't be able to cope. I have pretty extreme patterns of overthinking and I am definitely noticing that is fixated on food the past few weeks. I have lost weight in the last while and I am trying to put some of that back on but I've noticed I'm fixated on having 'healthy' dinners and worried about portions so I seem to have an underlining worry about putting on weight too quickly. I worry if I under eat I will get unhealthy and if I overeat ill put on 'too much' weight.......this sounds ridiculous I know!
I went to the GP last week and he gave me a prescription of xanax saying my nervous system is out of whack from big life changes and we talked about 4-7-8 breathing. He told me mental health issues are through the roof right now and even for private counselling I would be waiting almost two months.
Does anyone have anything that helped them with anxiety and also with trying to control their eating? I am hoping once this phase of big life changes is over I will balance out and things will seem a little easier. I have told my boyfriend about the anxiety but I have only told the GP about the food issues