Hi everyone I am new here. I am 26 years old and first started suffering from panic attacks and general anxiety about a year ago. I was prescribed Cipralex and they worked amazingly (after a dodgy start) returning me to 100% normality. I finished my 6 month course of these in April this year and was still fine. I thought I was cured.
Unfortunately over the summer I had some hard events to deal with - someone in my partners family died which was very traumatic and then less than a week later we were attacked by a neighbour. He was eventually sectioned under the mental illness act but not until a couple of months of living in fear of him and him threatening to kill us. As you can imagine this was very traumatic and we ended up moving as even though he was in hospital we didn't feel safe there anymore. I was then trapped underground on the tube during the london power strike for 45 mins and thats when the panic attacks started happening again.
I am currently off work as I found myself unable to get on the tube to get there. I have been signed off for three weeks and have been put back on Cipralex and so am waiting for them to work again.
This site looks great and I look forward to getting to know you all.
Emily