Hello everyone

[mconlon]

Hello everyone

I'm new to the group but not to panic! I'm 6 weeks out of seroxat use and getting used to life with possibility of panic in my life. I'm absolutely detemined to manage a life with panic without medication which made me fat and sexless!!

Panic is returning but I'm trying to use as many distractions as I can muster, exercise and decent diet, no alchohol or coffee. Relaxation is difficult and because I'm desperate for a quick fix I'm going to need reassuring that it will take time.

I find it amazing that my body awareness is so focussed when I am drug free and every twitch and strange sensation is immediately translated into possible death - it feels like my thinking brain is switched off and my reality changes to my suspected "final moments". Convincing myself I have nothing fatal is REEEAAALLLY hard!

Thanks for existing.

[Karen]

Hi mconlon

Welcome to the forum. It is bound to be a time of adjustment now you are coming off medication. Have you been weaning off slowly? Have you had any other help, ie CBT therapy?

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)

Health Anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/default.asp?t=cms&c=healthanxiety)

Coming off meds
getting bad again..... (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7064)

Links post: Links to posts about Common Problems (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7784)

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

[Alexandra]

Hi Michael

You will find lots of help & support on here.

Take Care

Alex

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

[jackie]

i know how hard it is to reassure yourself this isnt something fatal, i feel like this most of the time

yuo are certainly not alone

jackie

[nomorepanic]

Hi mconlon

Welcome aboard and hope we can be of some help.

Nicola

[trac67]

Hi Mconlon

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'

[chucklehound]

hi Mconlon and welcome to the forum!

[shiv]

Welcome. You've come to the right place

Shiv x

[Two heads]

welcome!You will find this forum a god send,glad you could join us.xx