Astrid
15-11-04, 11:46
Dear all!
I just thought I would send you all an e-mail to introduce myself and to say hello to you all!
I'm 26 and have been suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety over the last year. I had several car accidents and hated my job and started to feel more and more uncomfortable.. slowly my symptoms persisted up to the point where i was afraid of dying every second of the day. I quit my job and moved in with my boyfreind.... but my symptoms would not go away....
I live in Switzerland, and here things like anxiety/panic attacks are never ever talked about.... so i went to see my doctor who prescroibed me a very small dosage of Xanax... i felt better for a while but then got paranoid that i would get addicted to it! so my doctor trie dto weane me off by giving me paxil but only ended up having terrible side-effects!
Then from one day to another my panic attacks went away.. the point was that i stope dthinking about them... quite simple and easy to say but so hard to describe it any more than that.. i didn't have any for 6 months.. i weaned myself off the xanax very very slowly with my doctor and was off xanax without any anxiety for several months... it was a feeling of complete suiccess.....
But with most things... they always come creeping back. I have found a job in London and will be moving there at the end of this month and am so worried that my 'safe' space which i had created here is not in London. Luckily I found the no more panic web-site and have seen that there are many of us out there feeling exactly the same and that help is at hand! It's one of the most reassuring things that I have had over the last couple of days!
I am currently back on xanax and am taking Buspar all on small doses but always still have a chocky throat and feel out of breath! Ithink it may also have to do with the excitement of moving and the new job.... but i am worried about the flight, the underground and have even checked out where the nearest Hospital and 24hr doctor is where i live! crazy stuff but so necessary for me....
I hope that these panic attacks will someday creap away as much as they crept into my life! I lived without them for severela months and believe that I can live like that again.... I know there is hope and that is something i did not have the first time i was suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety....
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and i hope that i can be as useful to all of you as you to me.... i will look forward in maybe even seeing some of you since i will join as a member once i arrive to the UK and hopefuly go to a seminar!
Love astrid
I just thought I would send you all an e-mail to introduce myself and to say hello to you all!
I'm 26 and have been suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety over the last year. I had several car accidents and hated my job and started to feel more and more uncomfortable.. slowly my symptoms persisted up to the point where i was afraid of dying every second of the day. I quit my job and moved in with my boyfreind.... but my symptoms would not go away....
I live in Switzerland, and here things like anxiety/panic attacks are never ever talked about.... so i went to see my doctor who prescroibed me a very small dosage of Xanax... i felt better for a while but then got paranoid that i would get addicted to it! so my doctor trie dto weane me off by giving me paxil but only ended up having terrible side-effects!
Then from one day to another my panic attacks went away.. the point was that i stope dthinking about them... quite simple and easy to say but so hard to describe it any more than that.. i didn't have any for 6 months.. i weaned myself off the xanax very very slowly with my doctor and was off xanax without any anxiety for several months... it was a feeling of complete suiccess.....
But with most things... they always come creeping back. I have found a job in London and will be moving there at the end of this month and am so worried that my 'safe' space which i had created here is not in London. Luckily I found the no more panic web-site and have seen that there are many of us out there feeling exactly the same and that help is at hand! It's one of the most reassuring things that I have had over the last couple of days!
I am currently back on xanax and am taking Buspar all on small doses but always still have a chocky throat and feel out of breath! Ithink it may also have to do with the excitement of moving and the new job.... but i am worried about the flight, the underground and have even checked out where the nearest Hospital and 24hr doctor is where i live! crazy stuff but so necessary for me....
I hope that these panic attacks will someday creap away as much as they crept into my life! I lived without them for severela months and believe that I can live like that again.... I know there is hope and that is something i did not have the first time i was suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety....
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and i hope that i can be as useful to all of you as you to me.... i will look forward in maybe even seeing some of you since i will join as a member once i arrive to the UK and hopefuly go to a seminar!
Love astrid