flightfund
27-10-05, 16:19
Hi, just stumbled across this website after having a bit of a bad couple of days.
I've suffered with anxiety for a couple of years, and a bit of depression when the anxiety gets bad (nothing too serious but what I call 'the dark clouds'. I was put on Seroxat without much discussion from my then GP - my life that was pretty rotten stuff. 24 hours after taking it I needed valium to get off the ceiling, but persevered as advised to. After a couple of months I started feeling better although still the odd 'chest pain' here and there. I came off them after 4 months or so (GP didn't advise this was too soon, and crashed and burnt after 2 months or so!! Back to the GP, back on the Seroxat...managed to move house a short while later - my old area (crime levels) being one of my big stresses at the time.
I rather stupidly started weaning myself off the Seroxat when we had the builders in, got through that but when my 16 yr old joined the Navy, money/redundancy problems kicked off 6 weeks after coming off the pills, I've 'wobbled'. New and great GP understands the resistance re the Seroxat so let me try sleeping tablets for one night in three - worked fantastically, I felt I could be 'brave' if I could sleep. Only ended up taking 3 of them, but have them there for a rainy day.
I've tried CBT, but to be honest it was more info than anything else - which I could have obtained from your site - any advise would really really help - sorry for the long rant, but if anyone has advise on how I can cope without the tablets I'd be over the moon!! I will take them if I have to (not Seroxat but some other, as my GP has suggested) but I really feel there must be other ways...
I've suffered with anxiety for a couple of years, and a bit of depression when the anxiety gets bad (nothing too serious but what I call 'the dark clouds'. I was put on Seroxat without much discussion from my then GP - my life that was pretty rotten stuff. 24 hours after taking it I needed valium to get off the ceiling, but persevered as advised to. After a couple of months I started feeling better although still the odd 'chest pain' here and there. I came off them after 4 months or so (GP didn't advise this was too soon, and crashed and burnt after 2 months or so!! Back to the GP, back on the Seroxat...managed to move house a short while later - my old area (crime levels) being one of my big stresses at the time.
I rather stupidly started weaning myself off the Seroxat when we had the builders in, got through that but when my 16 yr old joined the Navy, money/redundancy problems kicked off 6 weeks after coming off the pills, I've 'wobbled'. New and great GP understands the resistance re the Seroxat so let me try sleeping tablets for one night in three - worked fantastically, I felt I could be 'brave' if I could sleep. Only ended up taking 3 of them, but have them there for a rainy day.
I've tried CBT, but to be honest it was more info than anything else - which I could have obtained from your site - any advise would really really help - sorry for the long rant, but if anyone has advise on how I can cope without the tablets I'd be over the moon!! I will take them if I have to (not Seroxat but some other, as my GP has suggested) but I really feel there must be other ways...