Happy, normal worries, constant anxiety. Best medication?

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As it says. I’m going to have a conversation with my GP. I wonder whether anyone has experienced similar and can recommend medication. It is medication I need now. I’m applying therapy really well. This grinding feeling which be quite painful. It does strain my heart muscle.

What do you mean by anxiety?

I get anxiety, its sometimes conscious negative thought but more often than that, it is crippling panic and paralysis, scared, feeling of dread and doom for no obvious reason

I find that I come to accept it, and try to move through it but its hard when I feel too frightened to get out of bed at times! Or to talk to someone.

But theres no reason for it really. Ive had therapy and medication over the years, its better than it was for sure.

You need to check you don’t have any underlying nutritional deficiency eg anemia can make women feel sad and anxcios

Fluoxetine has been a life saver for me

@bellac11 Thank you. A feeling, my heart feels it’s straining., tightness in my chest, cheeks feel flushed, headache.

@ElspethBoomingHowsen will Google. What symptoms did the medication address please?

Beta blockers are pretty good, I take them ad hoc as when I was on them daily they made my hair fall out which I couldnt tolerate

Are you in peri menopause?

I had a generalised feeling of fast heart, tight throat, anxiety and random outbursts of temper, almost all the time with trigger. I had loads of test and nothing came back so they diagnosed general anxiety disorder.

the fluoxetine has almost completely taken it away. It took a good 6 weeks to work but I feel amazing now!

@NrlySp I don’t think anaemia. Will ask though. Thank you.

@ElspethBoomingHowsen thank you. Your comments resonate.

I’m going to try full disclosure in the hope I get some relief and maybe you can help further. The benefit of social media.

My bra triggers my anxiety. I am really self-conscious about my breast size and have been since a teenager. However, I think I have lived with anxiety pre-puberty and I think perhaps my anxiety ‘hooked’ onto breast size and consequent bra size as an outlet. My husband once exasperated said ‘if it wasn’t one thing it would be another.’ I agreed with him.

I wonder whether I am describing low level OCD.

Well thats the problem with anxiety to some degree.

Sometimes there really rational and logical reasons for the root of it and it can be unpicked with therapy, sometimes that helps, sometimes not

Other times, it might have started about a negative thought/view of ourselves due to low confidence, self esteem or trauma but has decided to travel almost of is own accord into situations and circumstances not related to the original thing

And then we try to find reasons for feeling like this but ultimately the feeling is there.

@bellac11 Thanks again. Therapy has impacted really positively hence my comment ‘happy, normal worries’. I’ve been quite secretive, understandably about the bra thing. I realise the secret thing feeds the anxiety. It’s the final strategy before medication.

Have looked up Fluoxetine. Seems to tick the ‘intrusive thoughts’ which for me would be ‘if not one thing, another.’

You don't mention whether your breasts are large or small. Either way it's probably not the size that's an issue, it's a comment (or maybe a series of comments) that you heard and latched onto as a teenager that caused you to focus on them as an issue in your life.

Anxiety is the mind's way of telling you that something is important. If we didn't feel anxious we wouldn't go to work, prepare for interviews, dress up for dates or bother making any sort of effort for anything at all. But, sometimes, the mind over exaggerates the importance of a situation, a comment or a memory and makes it a constant "Big Thing" in your mind, thus triggering the feeling of anxiety.

Thinking back to the initial trigger and simply putting into adult context can be enough to resolve the situation. If that doesn't help by itself then therapy can help.