Please Help! I'm in hell

[Steffijade]

Hi everyone i am brand new to this forum. I have been a severe panic sufferer for 6 years and suffered depression for 13 years. I have been diagnosed with agrophobia and post traumatic stress. I just wondered if anyone else out there gets these weird times where your going along semi ok and then you get hit with 2 weeks of constant panic??? I have had it this time round for 5 straight days. If im not having a full blown attack i have a racing heartbeat, blurred vision, nausea and feel weak. I get woken in the night by my heart suddenly going off and then wake up to a panic attack. It's all day every day and i honestly feel like i can't put up with this another day and id be better off not here. Im so scared and its affecting all aspects of my life and marriage. Please help :scared15:

[xBettyBoopx]

Hi Steffijade

:welcome: to nmp.

I know exactly how you feel. This kinda living is no living at all & it feels like hell!!

Unfortunately I have no answers:weep: :weep: I too feel that it's pointless being here like this.

I hope that you find help soon.

Take care

Els
xxx

[PhoebeE]

I know what you mean. I have had times that I was doing fairly well and then out of nothing I felt totally miserable. Most of the time there was a trigger that I could point at, after it was gone. I don't know what you can do to make this stop, but know that it will end as all other miserable times ended some time. I hope it ends soon! Take care of yourself!

[Tweek]

I know how you feel mate, honestly. Just DO NOT GIVE UP. Thinking about topping yourself is no solution, especially if you have a family. Imagine what it'd do to them eh? Nah it's not an option.

We all die one day, so what's the rush?

I'm sure you will have some great times ahead of you in the bits between panic.

If you aren't on meds I suggest you go see the doc mate. I'm not a fan of big pharma, but they do actually help. They help me anyway.

What caused your PTSD? Have you got help for that? Maybe see a councillor or someone who has beaten it and can talk to you.

DO NOT QUIT! It's not an option.

Hope you feel better soon mate. :yesyes:

[BexieB]

Hi staffijade

Are you attending a healthcare professional at the moment?

[Tom_M]

Hi Steffijade

Have you not thought of getting help from the medical profession?
When your life is like that you need to seriously get some help to get out of it.
There's some wonderful treatment available these days. No one should suffer the way you are suffering. I'm not sure how the health care is in Australia but I would of thought that they have specialists to help people with this sort of thing.

Tom

[Steffijade]

Hi everyone, thanks for all your advice. I saw a psychiatrist yesterday and she has upped my dose of my old meds and given me some benzos to tide me over till the others kick in. I have gone from having constant panic to it just hanging on in the background so im feeling lots better. I am still terrified of it happening again thou. I just want to live my live, notheing special just to live.:scared15:

[Mikke]

Yes, I have a couple of weeks, or even three to four weeks when I'm panicky most of the time. I had it like this for many years.

I always try to analyze what kind of emotional stress I'm going through at the same time, as this is often the cause to all the panic.

[purplehaze]

Hi

Panic attacks agoraphobia are habit forming. By that I mean they become habitual like smoking or listening to country music in secret :-)
Most panic attacks do have triggers and there is a trigger for each of our panic attacks. We may not know why we get them or we may know but the fact remains we have them. So how do we start to regain control of our life?

Knowledge of our condition is the first step;

we need to understand
1/what is a panic attack/agoraphobia
2/what does it mean
3/how does it affect us

Every fear becomes less fearful and has less control over us when we can understand it.

If we keep it simple we can address the issue

Eg..As a child we may have been afraid of the dark but as we grew older and undertood that there was no furry monstor that was going to steal our collection of starwars toys(think I shared too much of my child hood fears there) we no longer fear the dark. But if we never address the problem we allow that fear to take root and it grows. what we do is we then feed it and feed into the lies.


I would like to suggest you keep a diary of how you feel and your thoughts and the situation before and after.
If we sit about all day waiting for a panic attack, then we will get a panic attack.


There is no quick fix but the more you confront your fears the less they will have a hold of you.


Thinking of you


kev x

[Yvonne]

I really sympathise - I went through it earlier this year and it truly is HELL! So glad you're feeling better and when you feel that way I'm afraid you do just have to take the benzos - whatever the shrink offers in my opinion. I was always very against benzos but having suffered what I did earlier this year I think they are something that you just have to use to get some respite.

Take care xx

Yvonne

[heath]

I know just what you mean. I have been away on holiday with my family and I was fine apart from not sleeping as i was to convinced that someone could brake in but that is a different story. But I got back last week and have been feeling terrible very low all the anxiety feelings and thinking I am going to die pretty much all day. Today is the first day I feel ok kind of but I am trying so hard to keep thinking positive rather bad things all the time. Does anyone ever feel kind of drained and so tired from thinking this stuff all the time?? Sometimes i get to the point of thinking I am sick to death of thinking it myself.

[lost_in_here]

i feel like i am in hell too.but i am new to uk and i have no idea where to aks for help...

[heath]

you have done the right thing in becoming a member on here as you will get lots of support but please see your GP they can help to.