Morning everyone, Alex here. Forgive me if this is in the wrong place- admins feel free to move it to the right place!

I’ve been an observer of this forum for the past 6 years but never posted. I have GAD, Health Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Depression all stemmed from my childhood. Controlled however with home meditation, sage burning, crystal cleansing along with 20mg citalopram (been on it for about a year) and propranolol as and when the adrenaline surges are just too much. And honestly my anxiety has been basically non-existent, it’s been bloody amazing… here comes the BUT… Recently my chemist ran out of my citalopram I was off it for around 8/9 days all together, I won’t go into detail here about the discontinuation syndrome symptoms as that’s a whole different post!

Anyways…. I have been back on them now for about a week and I’m still struggling, my morning anxiety has been out of this world crazy, and morning anxiety is not something I even suffered with before starting my meds. I know about the cortisol levels in a morning etc but I just wanted to hear others experiences of how they cope with morning anxiety symptoms. I have 2x children (one is 5 and severely disabled) and the other is 2 years old and a little madam. So when I need to get up in a morning and get the kids ready I could really do without the crippling anxiety telling me today is going to be awful, everything awful possible is going to happen and that there is no way I can survive the day while keeping myself and my children safe. And it would be nice to not have to spend my mornings hanging over the loo thinking my nausea is going to win, when I should be making my babies porridge!

OPs is this all still backlash from my “blip” with the meds? I’m guessing it can take a while for my body to level out all these chemicals. Sorry for the long post guys I’ve ALOT going on right now and it seems just reading others posts isn’t cutting it x