90% recovered from anxiety

[inthewoods4]

Hi all, after a horrible 6 months I finally feel like I’ve turned a massive corner in my recovery from anxiety/breakdown.
Now, I usually question how I feel when I wake up and quite often during the day, which can be unsettling, but generally my mood is good, I’m seeing friends and enjoying life.
But it’s still there in the background, and the self checking can be exhausting. Can anyone relate, and does this disappear eventually? x

Well done, it’s encouraging to hear it can be beaten! What worked for you? Did you take medication?

Sorry questioning yourself when you wake, it's akin to prodding a bruise to see if it still hurts! Work on the assumption that everything is OK and if it's not you will deal with it, as you do with any problem that comes your way.

It absolutely can be beaten, I really didn’t think i would be saying this a few months ago. I do take meds, Im on 30mg of citalopram, which definitely kicked in around the 6 week mark.
I’ve had a few episodes like this in the past, the first was PND and for me, the meds and time are what worked for me, and just knowing it will get better- because it will x

@inthewoods4 great to hear your feeling better. Having struggled with an anxiety disorder for years and years and after having had 3 breakdowns I have to say I personally have never found it to completely disappear. I'm trying to work on accepting that I am an anxious person and try to manage it the best I can. I'd definitely take 90% better as a win. Well done. Xx

Hi@inthewoods4 this really resonates with me, I feel like I’ve made so much progress since my PND diagnosis 5 months ago and like you am starting to enjoy life again… but the anxiety is still there and I feel like that’s just my new normal now! I’m hoping it might go away completely eventually but for now I’m just managing it as best I can and focussing on the fact that I’m so much better than I was! x

I think it takes a long time for your experience to be in the past, and not something you are still recovering from. I feel like I’m so nearly there, but not yet. When I had PND it took at least 3 months for me to feel a bit more capable and myself, but probably over a year to feel I was better. xx