Loulou37
26-01-14, 09:10
Hi All, so pleased to have finally found somewhere that I can finally speak openly to people that understand how I feel.
I am a 37 year old woman and have been suffering with severe anxiety since I was a child. I had always just struggled through and had several serious episodes. One such made me decide that I needed to take serious action and sought help through my GP and private healthcare where I saw a phsychiatrist who diagnosed GAD and OCD.
I started with sertraline and had to stop within a few days as it just didn't work for me at all. I have not taken any medication since apart from diazipam which I was just taking to get through the night, but recently had to a take during day as well.
I had a serious health scare over Christmas and it has seems to have spiralled me out of control. Everything that I think about seems to enable me to find something catastrophic in it, I'm going to get fired, I'm going to die, I'm going to lose everything etc etc. You know, the constant "what if's, yes yes But what if". It's exhausting and my partner bless him is trying very hard, but just doesn't understand. I am on the very long list for therapy (currently it takes up to six months) and am going back to GP tomorrow as I think the time has come to look at other medication.
Really looking forward to hearing from you all and hope the forum can help me to feel that I'm not on my own and I'm going to be ok xxxx
I am a 37 year old woman and have been suffering with severe anxiety since I was a child. I had always just struggled through and had several serious episodes. One such made me decide that I needed to take serious action and sought help through my GP and private healthcare where I saw a phsychiatrist who diagnosed GAD and OCD.
I started with sertraline and had to stop within a few days as it just didn't work for me at all. I have not taken any medication since apart from diazipam which I was just taking to get through the night, but recently had to a take during day as well.
I had a serious health scare over Christmas and it has seems to have spiralled me out of control. Everything that I think about seems to enable me to find something catastrophic in it, I'm going to get fired, I'm going to die, I'm going to lose everything etc etc. You know, the constant "what if's, yes yes But what if". It's exhausting and my partner bless him is trying very hard, but just doesn't understand. I am on the very long list for therapy (currently it takes up to six months) and am going back to GP tomorrow as I think the time has come to look at other medication.
Really looking forward to hearing from you all and hope the forum can help me to feel that I'm not on my own and I'm going to be ok xxxx