tobz0r
11-04-09, 01:01
Long-time-lurker, first-time-poster here. I'm a 19 year old student in my second year of three.
I won't give a full life story, but this is the sum of my problems. Around the age of 9 or 10 I started to have problems with a fear of being sick (emetophobia). This went on for a while but subsided, and I spent most of the years between then and now with minimal issues. I am very rarely sick or even really ill at all.
Around Christmas 2007 at the end of my first term at university, and after a typically student-style Christmas Eve celebration, a particularly bad hangover the next day kept me in the bathroom for most of the day - never actually being sick, just feeling like I was going to be. This proved to be the beginning, I think, of my problems with Panic Disorder and anxiety in general. Since then it has been getting progressively worse, breaking my confidence in just about every respect.
Today I am a shell of my former self, rarely going out socially and having to plan meticulously when I do. I've tried various medications for the problem, initially Propranolol then onto Citalopram, and now Mirtazapine. My life has competely changed because of this problem and I'm currently trying anything I can to help it - so here I am to talk about it! :)
I won't give a full life story, but this is the sum of my problems. Around the age of 9 or 10 I started to have problems with a fear of being sick (emetophobia). This went on for a while but subsided, and I spent most of the years between then and now with minimal issues. I am very rarely sick or even really ill at all.
Around Christmas 2007 at the end of my first term at university, and after a typically student-style Christmas Eve celebration, a particularly bad hangover the next day kept me in the bathroom for most of the day - never actually being sick, just feeling like I was going to be. This proved to be the beginning, I think, of my problems with Panic Disorder and anxiety in general. Since then it has been getting progressively worse, breaking my confidence in just about every respect.
Today I am a shell of my former self, rarely going out socially and having to plan meticulously when I do. I've tried various medications for the problem, initially Propranolol then onto Citalopram, and now Mirtazapine. My life has competely changed because of this problem and I'm currently trying anything I can to help it - so here I am to talk about it! :)