I'm on week 6 of fluoxetine and the side effects have generally been settling down. I am suffering fewer panic attacks but am still getting them. I am having one now and I get awful catastrophic thinking; the end result being I lose everything I have ever worked for.
I am under extreme pressure with my business as my colleague has been seriously I'll for six months and I have covered with longer hours but it has worn me down.
Plus yesterday I had a call from the doctor at 8 in the morning asking me to come in that day for results of a scan on a lump I had last week. I spent an hour and a half in panic and thinking the worst, before being told I have an infection and need antibiotics. Again, I was thinking about losing everything (my life in this case)
Once I get in the trap of catastrhic thinking, I just cannot get myself out of this black hole of awfulness. Thank goodness I am on Prozac - I dread to think what this would be like if I were not.
I have to make myself get out of bed in the morning.
Help