en07jp
06-07-11, 10:48
Hi,
So I am new to the forum, I have been searching it a lot over the last month but this is my first post. I had a little bit of a nervous breakdown whilst traveling alone in South America, started getting panic attacks and didn't know what was happening, ended up having to be flown home with a medical escort (embarassing, but an interesting experience, and insurance put me 1st class which was nice).
Since being home I went through a horrible month of depersonalisation, depression, panic attacks, those crazy thoughts you can't turn off.. but with the help of this websites symptom list that all kind of went away (10mg of citalopram probably helped also). I wouldn't say I'm back to normal, but definitely doing better (I found Claire Weekes book helped quite a bit for calming you down and teaching you not to fight the panic). However, the whole experience has put my health anxiety all the way back up again (this has always been an underlining issue), and I am constantly anxious that I am going to get ill/debilatating headaches and I instantly start catastrophising to the point where I am imagining myself being bed ridden and going through all the worst of it again. I was wondering if people had any advice of how to overcome this? I feel like it is stopping me making a full recovery at the moment.
Also, if you are reading this and you are going through acute panic/anxiety symptoms.. know that it is anxiety and it will go. I know how scary the worst of it can be.
Thanks. x
So I am new to the forum, I have been searching it a lot over the last month but this is my first post. I had a little bit of a nervous breakdown whilst traveling alone in South America, started getting panic attacks and didn't know what was happening, ended up having to be flown home with a medical escort (embarassing, but an interesting experience, and insurance put me 1st class which was nice).
Since being home I went through a horrible month of depersonalisation, depression, panic attacks, those crazy thoughts you can't turn off.. but with the help of this websites symptom list that all kind of went away (10mg of citalopram probably helped also). I wouldn't say I'm back to normal, but definitely doing better (I found Claire Weekes book helped quite a bit for calming you down and teaching you not to fight the panic). However, the whole experience has put my health anxiety all the way back up again (this has always been an underlining issue), and I am constantly anxious that I am going to get ill/debilatating headaches and I instantly start catastrophising to the point where I am imagining myself being bed ridden and going through all the worst of it again. I was wondering if people had any advice of how to overcome this? I feel like it is stopping me making a full recovery at the moment.
Also, if you are reading this and you are going through acute panic/anxiety symptoms.. know that it is anxiety and it will go. I know how scary the worst of it can be.
Thanks. x