Deepest Blue
09-01-09, 16:16
Hi Everybody,
I've been struggling for a while now to understand what's wrong with me. I seem to always be on edge and I panic about almost everything, I seem to struggle sleeping and even when I do fall asleep it normally ends up being a nightmare so it's cut short.
I've tried meds before namely citaprolam and effexor but these have not really helped other than make me too drowsy to do anything and I need to be fully alert due to the job I do.
It's really affecting my life and I thought I had a hold on it, but I don't know if it's depression or anxiety or both, and even so I don't even know what kind of anxiety it is, some say social anxiety but I don't think it's that, I am quite a shy person anyway but the fact that I have anxiety I think makes it appear like social anxiety, however, I can handle being in a social circle if I am not feeling anxious so that questions that one.
I also feel sick a lot of the time and my apetite is poor, or then sometimes I feel really hungry to the point where I can eat everything in sight!
My GP hasn't helped that much in the sense that he just tends to prescribe meds and nothing more. I've also tried Propranolol even though they didn't give me side affects, they also didn't do much in the way of relaxing me.
I think the fact that I panic about everything is probably the cause, my thinking is always blown out of proportion and I always tend to think something bad will happen and I hate continually thinking this way, I want to feel positive somehow. I really don't know what else to do :(
Thanks for reading.
I've been struggling for a while now to understand what's wrong with me. I seem to always be on edge and I panic about almost everything, I seem to struggle sleeping and even when I do fall asleep it normally ends up being a nightmare so it's cut short.
I've tried meds before namely citaprolam and effexor but these have not really helped other than make me too drowsy to do anything and I need to be fully alert due to the job I do.
It's really affecting my life and I thought I had a hold on it, but I don't know if it's depression or anxiety or both, and even so I don't even know what kind of anxiety it is, some say social anxiety but I don't think it's that, I am quite a shy person anyway but the fact that I have anxiety I think makes it appear like social anxiety, however, I can handle being in a social circle if I am not feeling anxious so that questions that one.
I also feel sick a lot of the time and my apetite is poor, or then sometimes I feel really hungry to the point where I can eat everything in sight!
My GP hasn't helped that much in the sense that he just tends to prescribe meds and nothing more. I've also tried Propranolol even though they didn't give me side affects, they also didn't do much in the way of relaxing me.
I think the fact that I panic about everything is probably the cause, my thinking is always blown out of proportion and I always tend to think something bad will happen and I hate continually thinking this way, I want to feel positive somehow. I really don't know what else to do :(
Thanks for reading.