DulwichHamlet
14-06-16, 11:57
Just having a bit of an awful day so wanted to vent. Any words of support or advice appreciated.
I've been on 20mg for about five years - I suffer with OCD and anxiety (and depression, but I think that's because of the first two), and had a relapse of symptoms lately. My GP put me up to 30mg, but after a couple of weeks of this I found I was having really bad headaches and neck/jaw pain so the GP took me back down to 20mg a week ago.
The headaches have pretty much gone but I'm just feeling pretty awful mentally now - on one level I know that the serotonin levels in my brain will have been going crazy (no pun intended) with all these changes in dosage, but on another level I just feel like now I'm either on edge or feeling miserable, and I just can't stop myself getting into really negative thought patterns and worrying.
I've been referred to my local mental health trust but that was almost a month ago and I've not heard anything yet (I know these things take time), but I just feel so frustrated - I'd thought the citalopram had been keeping me on an even keel for the past few years but this recent blip has really got to me. It feels like if I'm not in the grip of anxious thoughts and obsessive rumination, I'm feeling low and pessimistic because of the times I am feeling like that. I'm sat here at work feeling close to tears.
I've been on 20mg for about five years - I suffer with OCD and anxiety (and depression, but I think that's because of the first two), and had a relapse of symptoms lately. My GP put me up to 30mg, but after a couple of weeks of this I found I was having really bad headaches and neck/jaw pain so the GP took me back down to 20mg a week ago.
The headaches have pretty much gone but I'm just feeling pretty awful mentally now - on one level I know that the serotonin levels in my brain will have been going crazy (no pun intended) with all these changes in dosage, but on another level I just feel like now I'm either on edge or feeling miserable, and I just can't stop myself getting into really negative thought patterns and worrying.
I've been referred to my local mental health trust but that was almost a month ago and I've not heard anything yet (I know these things take time), but I just feel so frustrated - I'd thought the citalopram had been keeping me on an even keel for the past few years but this recent blip has really got to me. It feels like if I'm not in the grip of anxious thoughts and obsessive rumination, I'm feeling low and pessimistic because of the times I am feeling like that. I'm sat here at work feeling close to tears.