willy
27-02-06, 16:59
hello everyone!
my name is willy. ive been suffering form gad, panic attacks and phobias for two and a half years now.
at the beginning of last year i started getting panic attacks on a daily basis, before this i used to get them every so often.
i had just returned to the uk from australia where i had been living for two years, this is when i started to get the panic attacks daily.
im not sure wat triggered it off. i came off my antidepressant just before i returnee to the uk, and lookiing back i think i may have come off them too quickly.
i had a panic attack on a plane at the start of last year.
it was terrifying, then a few weeks later i was at edinburgh airport with my mother waiting to get our return flight back to london. and i just freaked out in the lounge and ran away from my mother downstairs to a cafe. sat down and just wept uncontrolably. anyway i managed too catch that flight back with just minutes to spare, luckily. it was horrible.
my symptoms are rapid heartbeat, depersonalisation, dry mouth, trembling, dizzy, hot flushes tight chest, shallow breathing and weak legs.
i took one more flght in may last year in may, same thing had another panic attack. sice then i have avoided flying.
i had a return ticket back to australia last year, but i had to cancel the ticket cause i felt i would not be able to cope with that journey. that broke my heart and was hard to take. :(
i desperately want to get back there and get on with my career. i had a great job out there and a good life.
my family are here in the uk and im living at my parents house. but my dad has a violent temper and directs his anger onto me verbally. we dont get along at all.
my parents argue alot of the time too, it is a hostile environment.
going back to my phobias and panic attacks.
one time last year i was heading up to edinburgh to see my bro on one of those virgin trains from london. as soon as the train departed i had a panic attack, then for the nexy hour the attacks would come and go. i was petrified. as soon as we got to the first stop which was peterborough, i was off that train in a flash. i couldnt bare being on that train for another 4 hours or however long it took to get to scotland.
so now i was stuck in this place called peterborough.
in the end i had to fork out £115 and get a taxi back to london, feeling deflated and depressed.
i had a few panic attacks whilst driving on the motorway last year. now i avoid driving on the motorway.
i also avoid going on the underground, driving through tunnels.
i dont like going in lifts. all of my phobias are enclosed spaces.
i spent two months in a psychiatric hospital last year, because i was suicidal due to these panic attacks i was getting. i have suffered from depresion for seven years now and have been on antidepresants on and off for seven years.
we got burguled last year, and i was in the house with my brother when the robbers broke in. i got punched in the back my head by on of them. one threatened us both with a hammer in his hand.
so that had an affect on my anxiety levels.
i am still suffering from panic attacks and my phobias. i get them every so often. i am housebound most of the time. and im back on the antidepressants and ive been on benzodiapines for just under a year now. im slowly tapering off those now though.
ive just started seeing a cbt therapist. does cbt really work on eliminating panic attacks anyone??
im very lonely. im glad i have now found this site.
im just going to have too get on the plane this year back to australia. easier said than done. this i believe is wat will save me.
i look forward too meeting lots of new people who are struggling like myself with this conditon.
any positive suggestions and advice
my name is willy. ive been suffering form gad, panic attacks and phobias for two and a half years now.
at the beginning of last year i started getting panic attacks on a daily basis, before this i used to get them every so often.
i had just returned to the uk from australia where i had been living for two years, this is when i started to get the panic attacks daily.
im not sure wat triggered it off. i came off my antidepressant just before i returnee to the uk, and lookiing back i think i may have come off them too quickly.
i had a panic attack on a plane at the start of last year.
it was terrifying, then a few weeks later i was at edinburgh airport with my mother waiting to get our return flight back to london. and i just freaked out in the lounge and ran away from my mother downstairs to a cafe. sat down and just wept uncontrolably. anyway i managed too catch that flight back with just minutes to spare, luckily. it was horrible.
my symptoms are rapid heartbeat, depersonalisation, dry mouth, trembling, dizzy, hot flushes tight chest, shallow breathing and weak legs.
i took one more flght in may last year in may, same thing had another panic attack. sice then i have avoided flying.
i had a return ticket back to australia last year, but i had to cancel the ticket cause i felt i would not be able to cope with that journey. that broke my heart and was hard to take. :(
i desperately want to get back there and get on with my career. i had a great job out there and a good life.
my family are here in the uk and im living at my parents house. but my dad has a violent temper and directs his anger onto me verbally. we dont get along at all.
my parents argue alot of the time too, it is a hostile environment.
going back to my phobias and panic attacks.
one time last year i was heading up to edinburgh to see my bro on one of those virgin trains from london. as soon as the train departed i had a panic attack, then for the nexy hour the attacks would come and go. i was petrified. as soon as we got to the first stop which was peterborough, i was off that train in a flash. i couldnt bare being on that train for another 4 hours or however long it took to get to scotland.
so now i was stuck in this place called peterborough.
in the end i had to fork out £115 and get a taxi back to london, feeling deflated and depressed.
i had a few panic attacks whilst driving on the motorway last year. now i avoid driving on the motorway.
i also avoid going on the underground, driving through tunnels.
i dont like going in lifts. all of my phobias are enclosed spaces.
i spent two months in a psychiatric hospital last year, because i was suicidal due to these panic attacks i was getting. i have suffered from depresion for seven years now and have been on antidepresants on and off for seven years.
we got burguled last year, and i was in the house with my brother when the robbers broke in. i got punched in the back my head by on of them. one threatened us both with a hammer in his hand.
so that had an affect on my anxiety levels.
i am still suffering from panic attacks and my phobias. i get them every so often. i am housebound most of the time. and im back on the antidepressants and ive been on benzodiapines for just under a year now. im slowly tapering off those now though.
ive just started seeing a cbt therapist. does cbt really work on eliminating panic attacks anyone??
im very lonely. im glad i have now found this site.
im just going to have too get on the plane this year back to australia. easier said than done. this i believe is wat will save me.
i look forward too meeting lots of new people who are struggling like myself with this conditon.
any positive suggestions and advice