Re: How can a tablet make me feel so awful
What you're feeling is totally normal - it gets much worse before it gets better. I went from only having panic attacks in certain situations, to being riddled with anxiety all day every day. It's horrible but it seems to be the norm, and in my experience it will stick around for another couple of weeks. If you're struggling with sleep then it's worth asking your GP for a course of sleeping tablets, I'm not a fan of taking tablets but the lack of sleep in the first few weeks was killing me so I took sleeping tablets for two or three days.
Propanolol is useful for easing the physical symptoms of anxiety and lots of people take them together so if they're helping ease the symptoms at all that's great. Pretty much everyone who posts on this forum will tell you that they feel worse in the mornings & start to feel better in the evening - not sure why that is! I take my tablets at night so I don't think it's anything to do with what time we take the citalopram.
In the early days it's impossible to think about anything other than how you're feeling, and it's hard because thinking about it and talking about it constantly only makes it worse. Soon you will get to a point where your symptoms get a little easier to ignore & once you get to that point it all starts getting better. This forum is great and I used to post on here ALL THE TIME in the beginning but once I started to feel better I actually found posting on here and giving my anxiety so much time & attention just made it worse. But right now it's early days for you & you need the supporr and somewhere to vent.
Are you doing anything to help yourself like self help books, meditation etc?
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