Hello Everyone

[honeybee3939]

Hello everyone,

Im thrilled to have found a great site, im a 42 female who as suffered with Anxiety/Agorophobia for the last 10 years, it all started after been held up by a armed robber, i was house bound for 2 years but now able to go into my local town to do the shopping without panic, at the moment i am feeling trapped in my own town as soon as i get to the border of my town in my car (which i go everywhere in) i just start to panic, at present i am having CBT which as helped me greatly in my tasks of ventuing out of my home, its a slow prossess, but i feel happy with what i have achieved so far after been house bound for so long, i am hoping to get lots of advice from you all and to share with you my experiences also.

Andrea
x

[trac67]

Hi Andrea,

Welcome to the forum, you will get a lot of good advice here and make some new friends.

take care

Trac xx

'Live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten'

[Alexandra]

Hi Andrea

Welcome to the forum.

You will find lots of help & support here.

Take Care

Alex

Many People Will Walk
In & Out Of Your Life
But Only True Friends
Will Leave Footprints
In Your Heart

[true11]

Oh my god andrea, i just went to introduce myself and saw your post, i could not believe it, so i had to reply to you first. me and my family were held at gunpoint in november 2004 and i would not wish it on my worst enemy. If you want to pm me and talk about your experience i would love to hear from you and would love to share my experince with you, although i am happy to talk to you about it on the forum. kerry

[true11]

Hi everyone, now i will get round to introducing myself :) My name is kerry and i am 37. I have been married for 15 years and i have 3 lovely children. A girl of 19 and two boys of 15 and 13.
I first realised i was suffering deppression after my first child 19 years ago. (postnatal deppression) which then got worst after having another two children.
It did turn out however that this was not just the cause of my deppression but having the children had highlighted it. The cause laid deeper from abuse as a child. my mum dying, my dad not wanting me. my first marriage breakdown, right through to being held up at gunpoint. The list is endless.
Through all the truma i have had a million and one things wrong with me. ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, OCD, INSOMMINA, POST TRUMATIC STRESS, FIBROMYALGIA. ETC. All these come with individual symtoms of there own (as most of you will be aware of)
I have had a lot of councilling, been on numerous different antidepressants (some with horrible side effects) and had different sleeping tablets.
I am so glad i have found this forum and i hope i can be of help to any of you and i know you will all be of help to me. I am quite happy to answer any of your questions, openly or privately please feel free to contact me. I look forward to getting to know you all.
thanks for reading. kerry

[Sue K with 5]

Hi Andrea


Welcome to NMP! I also have Anxiety and Agoraphobia, mine started a long time ago but I managed to do things in and around my home town and even used to go up to London to visit family. Now like you I am gaving cbt and can venture as far as a few shops, although the cbt is helping

Glad you found this site feel free to PM if you ever want to chat



Sue with 5

scknight

[nomorepanic]

Hi Andrea and hi Kerry

Welcome aboard to both of you and hope we can be of some help to you on here.

Nicola

[jackie]

hi andrea

hope we can help. you have come to the right place . you wont feel so alone any more

jackie

[Piglet]

Andrea and Kerry welcome to you both!!

Love Piglet x

[Karen]

Hi Andrea

Welcome to the forum.

You might find the following information helpful:

First Steps (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/default.asp?t=cms&c=firststeps)

Symptoms (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/default.asp?t=cms&c=symptoms)

You will find a lot of help and support here.


Karen



Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of travelling.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough ~ Christine Cagney, Cagney & Lacey

[Lozzie]

Hi Andrea,

Welcome to the forum x you will find alot of useful information on here and make new friends too:D

Laura

[honeybee3939]

Thankyou all so much for your friendly welcome, i can see i am going to make alot of new freinds.

Thankyou

Andrea

[sal]

Hi Andrea and firstly welcome to the forum. You will make lots of friends here that totally understand how you feel. No one judges on here they just understand and what more could we ask for.

Love Sal xx


Dont mess up the best things in your life, just because at present you are unsure who you are.


"Life is a distance and to travel that distance you were given the strength and guidance to do so".

[true11]

THANKYOU ALL FOR YOUR FRIENDLY WELCOME, LOOKING FORWARD TO NO LONGER FEELING ON MY OWN. XX

[Meg]

Hello Andrea, Hello Kerry

Welcome to you both.

Glad you are getting some CBT. If you are still plagued by nightmares and flashbacks than you may need to ask for some specialist PTSD help too to help you get over the horrid experience



Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Your anxiety is the human representation of the pictures that you paint using your many vivid colours of revolving and reoccurring thoughts.
How big is your gallery ?

[clickaway]

A warm welcome to you both!

The beauty of this site is that we can support each other, and this is a great example where two people have similarly unusual stories.

Andrea - I hope the CBT is going well.

Take Care,

Ray
http://www.anxietyrelease.org.uk/

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
~Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers