tilda
06-06-06, 09:52
Hi all.
Found this site last night after a pretty horrible panic attack. I've had depression for as long as I can remember, and anorexia for several years (been in recovery for a year now though). It's only now I'm realising how much of my problems were actually due to anxiety, it's quite frightening the way every practioner missed or misdiagnosed it. I ran out of my antidepressants (also used to treat anxiety in fact) just before exams a few weeks ago, so I went from the maximum dose to nothing. After a couple of weeks of bad physical side effects I thought I was ok, then this panic set in. I may put that in a separate post just to see if anyone can relate. I've done CBT to death over the years, and whilst it's useful for some things it doesn't really apply to the free-floating anxiety I get, or when emotions are really out of control. I've thought about hypnotherapy, or about the Linden method (although I'm wary of anything promising such a quick fix). I'm scared by how out of control it's suddenly become, it's like a nasty version of Alice in Wonderland right now. Anyway, that's my garbled introduction over, thanks for reading.
Found this site last night after a pretty horrible panic attack. I've had depression for as long as I can remember, and anorexia for several years (been in recovery for a year now though). It's only now I'm realising how much of my problems were actually due to anxiety, it's quite frightening the way every practioner missed or misdiagnosed it. I ran out of my antidepressants (also used to treat anxiety in fact) just before exams a few weeks ago, so I went from the maximum dose to nothing. After a couple of weeks of bad physical side effects I thought I was ok, then this panic set in. I may put that in a separate post just to see if anyone can relate. I've done CBT to death over the years, and whilst it's useful for some things it doesn't really apply to the free-floating anxiety I get, or when emotions are really out of control. I've thought about hypnotherapy, or about the Linden method (although I'm wary of anything promising such a quick fix). I'm scared by how out of control it's suddenly become, it's like a nasty version of Alice in Wonderland right now. Anyway, that's my garbled introduction over, thanks for reading.