AmandaG
02-11-07, 20:26
Hi everyone,
My name's Amanda, I thought I'd leave a few details about myself on here before getting embroiled in any other threads:)
I'm really pleased to see there's a chat forum going for people with anxiety/panic issues - last time I looked for help online there were only phone numbers and a few descriptions of conditions.
Anyway, to cut things short(er)....
I think I had depression for a long time without realising it, and was really taken by surprise with a burst of health anxiety and accompanying panic attacks a few years ago. I mean, I'd never heard of anxiety as a condition, and thought the doctor was taking the mickey when she said I had a bit of anxiety.
That got steadily worse over a couple of months, with me believing I had some serious physical illness. Eventually I was given Prozac, since my health-symptom-checking was getting a lot like OCD. It worked fantastically well, no side effects, felt honestly better and more 'normal' than ever.
The doc took me off it once and symptoms came back, so I went back on until I could see a counsellor for some only semi-successful talking treatment.
Anyway, the docs and the consultant piled the pressure on for me to come off Prozac, which I did gradually, but not as gradually as I might have liked.
Since then, I've found myself prone to getting a bit overly wound up about all kinds of situations and increasingly down.
Recently I've got general health anxiety and panic attacks back, not helped by a real mixed bag of nose/easr/throat/chest infections I'm still suffering from:weep:
I don't think I'm about to go back on Prozac, although I'd quite like to
My name's Amanda, I thought I'd leave a few details about myself on here before getting embroiled in any other threads:)
I'm really pleased to see there's a chat forum going for people with anxiety/panic issues - last time I looked for help online there were only phone numbers and a few descriptions of conditions.
Anyway, to cut things short(er)....
I think I had depression for a long time without realising it, and was really taken by surprise with a burst of health anxiety and accompanying panic attacks a few years ago. I mean, I'd never heard of anxiety as a condition, and thought the doctor was taking the mickey when she said I had a bit of anxiety.
That got steadily worse over a couple of months, with me believing I had some serious physical illness. Eventually I was given Prozac, since my health-symptom-checking was getting a lot like OCD. It worked fantastically well, no side effects, felt honestly better and more 'normal' than ever.
The doc took me off it once and symptoms came back, so I went back on until I could see a counsellor for some only semi-successful talking treatment.
Anyway, the docs and the consultant piled the pressure on for me to come off Prozac, which I did gradually, but not as gradually as I might have liked.
Since then, I've found myself prone to getting a bit overly wound up about all kinds of situations and increasingly down.
Recently I've got general health anxiety and panic attacks back, not helped by a real mixed bag of nose/easr/throat/chest infections I'm still suffering from:weep:
I don't think I'm about to go back on Prozac, although I'd quite like to