MrsPotatoHead
30-07-13, 11:45
I've got a really strange thing happening. All of my anxiety manifests in a purely physical way. For example, my brain is not actually caught up in any sort of anxious thinking, if anything my thoughts are just your normal sort of thoughts. But my body is a whole different thing. Right now my anxiety is the worst its ever been, my heart is pounding and my stomach is in knots. And worse that its there from when I wake up to when I go to sleep. All day. Every day. And its been weeks now. I don't want to eat anything and get constant nausea. All I know is I feel this intense fear, but not in my mind? What is that? Is that even anxiety?
I've tried all sorts of things to deal with it, meditation, CBT, acceptance but it just does not go away. The only thing that stops it is alcohol. And yeah, I know its a very dangerous thing to drink to deal with anxiety, but my point for bringing it up is that my anxiety seems to have a very strong physical basis. And Im wondering what alcohol is actually doing to my brain chemistry to stop the anxiety and how I can replicate that with far more helpful things such as vitamins or proper meds. I was prescribed prozac for anxiety a while ago and am wondering if I should go back on it.
Does anyone else have experience of severe physial anxiety? How do you deal with it?
I've tried all sorts of things to deal with it, meditation, CBT, acceptance but it just does not go away. The only thing that stops it is alcohol. And yeah, I know its a very dangerous thing to drink to deal with anxiety, but my point for bringing it up is that my anxiety seems to have a very strong physical basis. And Im wondering what alcohol is actually doing to my brain chemistry to stop the anxiety and how I can replicate that with far more helpful things such as vitamins or proper meds. I was prescribed prozac for anxiety a while ago and am wondering if I should go back on it.
Does anyone else have experience of severe physial anxiety? How do you deal with it?