abbeyk
16-08-08, 02:07
wow. i am so pleased to find this site tonight. though i have yearned for it, i have never been able to find a community for anxiety support before. i am really looking forward to seeing what we can do here.
so, lemme think. i have suffered from anxiety probably my whole life, though never had a panic attack until 2001 -- the summer before the trade towers fell. i lived right next to the world trade center at the time so when sept 11 hit it was traumatic to say the least. about two months later the panic was so bad i could hardly leave the house. the first treatment i sought was a psychiatrist -- i left the office on medication.
about a year and a half later i took myself off with great success. another traumatic event -- the death of a parent -- seemed to bring back the attacks almost worse than they were before. since then i have been to two different CBTherapists and have been working on and off with a few CBT inspired books.
the latest ones i'm working with are by Dr. David Burns...i think it's working but of course it's a lot of work and slow going. i'm feeling ready to really give myself a shot at this though which is, in part, what brought me to the site.
i'm so tired of it all and am ready to make the effort to get rid of it. my particular choice of anxieties are panic, social, agoraphobia, and hypochondria.
i'm hoping this is a good place to find the support that seems to be neccesary in order to fight it off once and for all. for something that everyone seems to experience to some degree, it is incredible how alienating panic/anxiety can really be when we let it.
thanks much meg for this cyber salon just for us.
so, lemme think. i have suffered from anxiety probably my whole life, though never had a panic attack until 2001 -- the summer before the trade towers fell. i lived right next to the world trade center at the time so when sept 11 hit it was traumatic to say the least. about two months later the panic was so bad i could hardly leave the house. the first treatment i sought was a psychiatrist -- i left the office on medication.
about a year and a half later i took myself off with great success. another traumatic event -- the death of a parent -- seemed to bring back the attacks almost worse than they were before. since then i have been to two different CBTherapists and have been working on and off with a few CBT inspired books.
the latest ones i'm working with are by Dr. David Burns...i think it's working but of course it's a lot of work and slow going. i'm feeling ready to really give myself a shot at this though which is, in part, what brought me to the site.
i'm so tired of it all and am ready to make the effort to get rid of it. my particular choice of anxieties are panic, social, agoraphobia, and hypochondria.
i'm hoping this is a good place to find the support that seems to be neccesary in order to fight it off once and for all. for something that everyone seems to experience to some degree, it is incredible how alienating panic/anxiety can really be when we let it.
thanks much meg for this cyber salon just for us.