Re: Advice? Finishing Month 4 of Second Time Around
It's disheartening when those old familiar symptoms pop up after you've been feeling so well. I think, personally anyway, that as anxious people we'll always have times like this and whereas most people would just ignore them, we are so scared of going back to how we used to feel so we end up spending a lot of time & attention focusing on it. Which of course makes it worse!
I know I definitely still had bad days even as far as 6 months in to the medication & it was hard to believe I wasn't going to fall down that hole again. But looking back I could have dealt with them better, I made myself miserable by focusing on the bad days & forgetting all the good ones I'd had. With time & practise I found ways to relax & manage my anxiety with daily meditation and building relaxation techniques into my day. This time around (this is my second time too) I've been prescribed propanolol for the pounding heart & palpitations, I don't take it every day but it has helped a lot. Is that something you could consider?
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