I’m 40 and just recently had pretty much a complete nervous breakdown.
A few years of chronic stress and some really traumatic things back to back - health anxiety, birth trauma, bereavement, bad relationship, partners health scare and break up), on top of childhood bereavement that I had buried tipped me over the edge.
After a docs appointment and health scare, I just started shaking and didn’t stop for a whole week. Multiple panic attacks in between. Couldn’t stop crying and feeling like I was dying.
The ‘panic’ has stopped but I am totally exhausted a lot of the time. Like that horrible zero energy feeling. I am a single parent to a lively 3 year old, so this is so hard.
I’ve had a bloods done and they’re normal, plus I’ve started trauma therapy and am now taking 50mg of sertraline. I swim and walk. I really struggle to rest but I’m trying.
I’m just worried that I’m never going to feel normal again. If you have had one what did yours feel like and how long did it take you to feel better and what did you do?