kellyp
15-05-11, 03:16
Long story short:
I tried a Buddhist Retreat, but there were more than 100 people there... too many for my idea of a retreat.
So we left early.
In the KFC queue (Husband insisted...) at a Motorway Services.
This man behind me got too close: I'm sure he was just looking at the menu, but I started sweating and shaking (and the shaking is like epilpetic shaking). I looked at my Husband and suddenly a 'white mist' descended. Everything was far away, but too close. I suddenly couldn't speak, wanted to cry, and my legs just folded.
He bundled me out; I was ABSOLUTELY petrified of the people around me. The journey home - about 1.5 hours: I had three episodes. I shook like nobody's business, I actually screamed as if someone was chasing me. And I had to tell my Husband: don't talk to me! don't touch me! (Poor man... he's exhausted....)
I did breathing exercises, I recited all I knew about Shakespeare and talked myself down, so that will fit in with the CBT I'm in line for.
I'm off Citalopram and in week one of Sertraline.
I got home and I'm fine now, if not exhausted.
Took a double dose of the Sertraline tonight: 50mg, and am feeling so much better. Up at this ungodly hour because I am glad not to be sweating or shaking...
Any feedback welcome.
Kx
I tried a Buddhist Retreat, but there were more than 100 people there... too many for my idea of a retreat.
So we left early.
In the KFC queue (Husband insisted...) at a Motorway Services.
This man behind me got too close: I'm sure he was just looking at the menu, but I started sweating and shaking (and the shaking is like epilpetic shaking). I looked at my Husband and suddenly a 'white mist' descended. Everything was far away, but too close. I suddenly couldn't speak, wanted to cry, and my legs just folded.
He bundled me out; I was ABSOLUTELY petrified of the people around me. The journey home - about 1.5 hours: I had three episodes. I shook like nobody's business, I actually screamed as if someone was chasing me. And I had to tell my Husband: don't talk to me! don't touch me! (Poor man... he's exhausted....)
I did breathing exercises, I recited all I knew about Shakespeare and talked myself down, so that will fit in with the CBT I'm in line for.
I'm off Citalopram and in week one of Sertraline.
I got home and I'm fine now, if not exhausted.
Took a double dose of the Sertraline tonight: 50mg, and am feeling so much better. Up at this ungodly hour because I am glad not to be sweating or shaking...
Any feedback welcome.
Kx