Anyone else struggling with anxiety?

[mooseloose]

I've been off work nearly three months now and am just really fed up with myself now. i've refused any meds but I just cant get over it. I started my counselling last week, and am hopeful she can sort me out. it was caused by by son having an accident, and juggling work etc which just got too much and made me cry.
Id had a lot of panic attacks but they are getting better but now I just feel worried when i go out, and that i want to cry.
Today I just can't breathe. I don't know if i'm worse today because i'm due on too.
I just really feel i've lost my way and lost confidence in myself, and i dont know what to do to get myself back.
I'm all crabby and wound up with people too - no patience.
I think the doctor is fed up with me too and i'm also worried she won't keep giving me sick notes, i'm never usually ill.......

hi all. Hope you had a good day? Nobody about today!

hi moose
just been to on call doc got a throat infection now
i mean how much more can i take
im so fed up of being ill i cant begin to tell you
so very run down
enough of my woes how are you ?

poor you candy ,that was what was wrong with your throat then maybe
get well soonxx

Blissa where are you, are you ok?

went to see gp today i booked it last week as i feel my anxiety getting on top of me again ,talked it through and she has upped my ad's from 30-45mg some to be taken at night and some in the morning,am scared off side effects of bigger dose and scared not to do anything too.
i will take it tomorrow
has anyone else had an experince of split dose's?

hello i'm new here please be gentle with me
Had the most awful night's sleep last night. I have this feeling that something really awful is about to happen and I can't stop worrying about it. Is this normal or am I totally losing it?

hi haggis
it is normal for people with anxiety to feel like something bad is going to happen,although this symtom is not something i suffer with
are you on ad's ?

No but have my first appointment with mental health this week. My GP said they might recommend meds depending on which therapy they think i need as sometimes it's easier to engage with therapy if you're on meds

Hi all. Still no sign of Blissa!
Went to lunch with a couple of work friends today.felt a bit out of breathe and like I was going to cry but ok.
My sick note is up in two weeks - its flying again, and I still dont thinbk I will be well enough for work, so thats worrying me again - a viscious circle...

Hi moose sounds like you coped well with your lunch
Hi candy sorry you're anxiety's been a problem again

I feel in a feal tizz tonight its as if its been building up during the day and now I'm nearly crying and snapping at everyone.
Must try not to as my dd is doing so well don't want to knock her off track.

Words of calm for me ladies

Why does this happen??

aw morning sun
sorry your not feeling good
is there any chance you could go out for a drive or walk ?

not really
feel slightly calmer thanks candy
why does this happen and when will it end?
How can you go thru so many years with no anxiety and now its like this and comes back

when i get it i feel quite overwhelmed and hopeless do you feel the same?
I'm waiting for a mirena coil to come out i ended up leaving it in a bit longer cos i felt better when i went to gynae clinic~grrr!
also i'm not on ads did you find they made much difference to you candy?

i have no idea why it happens my counsellor says to give up on trying to find the answer its pointless
i do feel overwhelmed and think it will never go away but i have to keep going for my kids
ive just started on higher dose today going from 30mg to 45mg im hoping with all my heart that i will be less anxious on this higher dose.
i just want to be well again

and me
we'll get through this
when you started the ads did they help the anxiety or did they make it worse for a while?
I'm worried i'd be one of those to feel more anxious and also i think i've had a bit of a reaction to the progesterone in the mirena so i should take that out first

Is there a trigger that started this with you candy?

hi, sorry to hear you are both fed up. I have done my garden all day, and feel nice now. That me time works wonders!

Its funny/odd isn't it that you can just get so bad without wanting to, or knowing thereason for it. I actuallyfeel quite silly about being bad, like people will think I'm crackers. Like 'whycant you walk to school without worrying - whatcan happen to you?' I know nothingcan happen, but that doesn't make it go away does it. It is just a me and it thing.

Hi ladies hope we are all ok. I keep forgetting to take my tablets and am therefore having irrational thoughts at the moment - started to think i wasent here at all earlier but soon put a stop to it and started thinking of something else. I am in agreement i dont think the feelings will ever go away and just have to learn to accept them and live with them and control them as best as possible.

My back is playing up again so goin to gp tomorrow also dd is at hospital tomoroow so a medical day for us.

Morning sun i had a lot of anxiety problems when i was a teenager from about age of 12 to 17. This stemmed from my uncle commiting suicide and me blaiming myself and also getting bullied. I had anxiety and ocd and at one point nearly got sectioned so i know what your dd is going through but i got through it and so will she. Also know how it effected my parents and i am sorry to them but it made me a stronger person in the end.

Hi all feeling better today
Hi mtp hope your day at hospital goes well.

Hi moose and candy have a good day!

hi morning sun yes when i first started on them i did feel worse for the first 3 weeks ,it was a horrible time tbh but im still here. i need to get better for my kids they need me.
how is everyone else?

hi/ I am ok. Supposed to be ironing instead of on here really! Feeling okay again today. Its nice to feel like me again.....
Hope it lasts....
Thedifference to me seems to lie in being out of the house.Did garden yest, and pop to see afriend this morning.

Hope everything okay today mtp.

Keyboard sticking - sorry!

helllooooo anyone about?

hi just checked in before having a bath!
How are you?

Hi, I'm okay mostly, just a couple of iffy panics, but alright, not bad. How are you?

anxiety wise not too bad but i feel down off and on and that makes me feel unconfident and hopeless.sometimes ithink its just life and then i think maybe i should try a/ds.
Ho hum

Morning sun i would not be able to cope without my tablets and anxiety can be triggered by depression etc, my tablets arent completley ads they are for ocd and irrational thoughts as well but i suppose they are all linked in some ways. If you do feel down and dont feel like the therapy is working maybe try the ads to see if they help x

hi. I have been starting to wonder about going to work again. Have two more weeks left on my note. Been off 18 weeks now - it's took that long to start to feel like myself again!
But if I go back to work I will be inside, and part of my treatment that is really helping is being outside. So if I am in I can't be out! So I don't know how that would leave me? Or is that all in my mind? And what if I go back and get tipped over again? I am ok ish really, but I just find that unexpected things worry me and make me nervous and shaky, and I get upset easily. DS came home from school Friday and was upset and really cried! And then that made me cry, and I just felt awful. Really wretched. So that is what is worrying me at the mo.
Sorry - that was a bit of a long whinge!