I hate this anxiety. I wish I could just be normal

[TheChip]

So sick of it. A simple note for my gas servicing has been left and the date planned is tomorrow. I can not deal with such short notices.

I've rang to rearrange but that department is now closed and so an email has been sent over.

If I don't hear from them today confirming that it has been rearranged for a later date, then I'm going to be a wreck until tomorrow morning when they turn up at my door and I'll be even more of a wreck when they tell me it won't be long to try and get me to just let them do it.

I know it won't take long. I know I will feel fine and relax as soon as they have left, but even though I know that, I still end up a mess. My brain can't stay on the rational side and instead sends me spiralling argh

Have you spoken to anyone about this? Sertraline changed my life with stuff like this (despite a rather annoying first week where it was just a case of hanging on). This can be fixed.

I'm so sorry you are feeling this way.
It's awful isn't it.
Please get help from your doctor.
Would you have 20minutes tonight to watch a YouTube video to help with anxiety? I find the Adriane Yoga Anxiety video free on YouTube is brilliant. No real yoga involved.

I feel for you I have dreadful anxiety you are not alone feeling like this.

Sertraline did used to work for me at one point. I'm glad it has helped you wallyhilloby. I use buspirone for times im going into an anxious situation usually and that can be helpful. Only since lockdown, I've rarely been in a position of where I've needed it. So when that situation came about yesterday, it was like a smack in the face to remind me of what I have been missing ha.

I pulled every tool out of the bag to try and calm myself. The distractions worked up until bedtime and then I just couldn't sleep. I must have conked out at some point and woke to my son saying the man was at the door. I told him to tell him it had already been rearranged and problem solved. Now I've had the call to actually rearrange it.

At least now I can mentally prepare for the day he comes and take tablets ready for him! I can breathe again. I'm just going to be an exhausted zombie today.

I will check that video out saucermilk thank you 😊

Whatisitforteamum, it's nice to know I'm not alone. It's shit that it's this we all suffer with though, it's such a horrible thing! I hope you manage to overcome it.

Venlafaxine changed my life......

Anxiety is SO awful. I hope they get in touch soon to rearrange.

Is the tablets you were prescribed only when needed or to be taken daily?

I think they are meant to be taken daily, but they said I could just take them as needed. I sometimes use them alongside propranolol.
The buspirone quietens my mind, and propranolol cools my physical symptoms down