Catherine84
25-02-13, 16:25
Hello everyone,
I came across this site over the weekend, after several days of severe panic attacks focused around a hyper-awareness of my breathing.
I am 28, and work as an R&D scientist - for the last four days I have been signed off sick from work with extreme anxiety and depression. I have always been a very tense and anxious person, but have only recently found the courage to ask for help. I think the anxiety has been building for months and, rather than speaking to someone sooner, I had allowed it to escalate out of control.
I thought I was doing a lot better until I was involved in a head on collision with a drunk driver last summer. I escaped with a few bruises and a painful neck, and I am so thankful it wasn't more, but I have been finding it hard to even sit as a passenger in a car. The daily drive to work is luckily only a 5 minute journey, but I still find myself very edgy and my partner nearly always drives when we go anywhere else.
I am now on diazepam 5mg three times a day to control the panic attacks I have been having around my breathing, but it is just making me very sleepy - I am going to persevere though.
It is so ressuring to find a site where there are like-minded people going through anxiety and depression, and I have already met some lovely people who have offered me lots of advice.
All the best,
Catherine x
I came across this site over the weekend, after several days of severe panic attacks focused around a hyper-awareness of my breathing.
I am 28, and work as an R&D scientist - for the last four days I have been signed off sick from work with extreme anxiety and depression. I have always been a very tense and anxious person, but have only recently found the courage to ask for help. I think the anxiety has been building for months and, rather than speaking to someone sooner, I had allowed it to escalate out of control.
I thought I was doing a lot better until I was involved in a head on collision with a drunk driver last summer. I escaped with a few bruises and a painful neck, and I am so thankful it wasn't more, but I have been finding it hard to even sit as a passenger in a car. The daily drive to work is luckily only a 5 minute journey, but I still find myself very edgy and my partner nearly always drives when we go anywhere else.
I am now on diazepam 5mg three times a day to control the panic attacks I have been having around my breathing, but it is just making me very sleepy - I am going to persevere though.
It is so ressuring to find a site where there are like-minded people going through anxiety and depression, and I have already met some lovely people who have offered me lots of advice.
All the best,
Catherine x