EebyJeeby
06-04-06, 17:30
My PAs started last Sept and I have suffered from acute anxiety/depression for the last 6 months. It has always been accompanied by that horrible knotted feeling in my stomach - all day, every day. Like butterflies but much, much worse. Dreading the next panic attack I suppose. I am having some counselling and am still not actually taking the anti-depressants I have been prescribed (Citalopram).
Well.....I am now on my 5th day free of that knotted stomach feeling! I can't quite believe it! It seemed like it would never end.
Since being off work, it has given me the time to address all sorts of things in my life, mainly to do with what I want to do and where I want to be. Work has been surprisingly supportive and I am now in a grievance procedure there (they have to answer to some issues I have raised re stress at work), AND I am also moving house to a different area of the country shortly. However, I feel strangely relaxed about it all (instead of stressed, which perhaps would be more normal really).
I think it's to do with making positive changes and recognising what's good for me and what isn't. I still have a way to go, but I feel very encouraged by this.
I'd like to think that when we're all better, the coping techniques we have learnt from all this will make us cooler and more laid back than everyone else![8D]
Eeb x
Well.....I am now on my 5th day free of that knotted stomach feeling! I can't quite believe it! It seemed like it would never end.
Since being off work, it has given me the time to address all sorts of things in my life, mainly to do with what I want to do and where I want to be. Work has been surprisingly supportive and I am now in a grievance procedure there (they have to answer to some issues I have raised re stress at work), AND I am also moving house to a different area of the country shortly. However, I feel strangely relaxed about it all (instead of stressed, which perhaps would be more normal really).
I think it's to do with making positive changes and recognising what's good for me and what isn't. I still have a way to go, but I feel very encouraged by this.
I'd like to think that when we're all better, the coping techniques we have learnt from all this will make us cooler and more laid back than everyone else![8D]
Eeb x