Anxiety

[jclh96]

Okay, i will start from the beginning. For a little over a week, we were kinda taking care of this stray cat. And a few days later, on to the next week, i haven’t felt myself, like, i am sitting back in my head, watching a movie. not in the moment/far from my head, far from earth, things aren’t real, i’m all there but i’m not…….ETC. Think you get the gist. Ant that same week i haven’t taken my medication(i take Levothyroxine, a Thyroid medication, and i heard it can do some pretty crappy things) Anyways, taking care of a stray cat, and not taking meds. Okay, well, after a week i really get things turning, and start to really wonder, Me Being Me, looked up diseases you can get from cats/animals, and the Number one thing that stuck out was Rabies, well, i started looking at the symptoms for Rabies, and THEN, things REALLY started clicking! I really started freaking out, and this was just a couple days ago from today(Oct. 10th, 2011) Then i had a major panic attack, and to this day i still feel like i have Rabies and i still worry, have funny symptoms. My mom tries to tell me, i have had my Immunizations, and i am up to date, and that protects against that stuff, and she says the cat is healthy. SO, i want to know if most of this is from not taking my meds + an Anxiety issue, or what, because i still get freaked out and have panic attacks, and still believe and think i have rabies. Mom disagrees 100% with what i think. I am a 15 year old boy. She thinks its the meds(im not taking when im supposed to), and now that i am better, she thinks i still have bad Anxiety that is making me weird. Because normally, i have NEVER had Anxiety problems like this, Hoping that’ what it is. Comments pleas, need to set my mind at ease.

[JGF25]

The medication you are on does have anxiety as a side effect.  It also may take a couple of weeks before you start to see the full benefits of taking it.  I think though, as the days go by, you will start to feel less anxious.  If at the two week mark you are still having these panic episodes and this cycle of irrational thinking, then you should go back to your prescribing doctor and see what the next step is.  It is important that you don't stop the medication without a doctor's advice.  

After this is over and done with, you just may want to give that cat a permanent home. :)  You will feel better soon!

[jclh96]

Okay. Sorry, i misworded it wrong, i men't, i heard it can do crappy things if you "don't" take it. I to this day still don't feel like my self. I have been taking them for 3 days now. But ya. All through the day, i feel not right, i panic, at school i panic, not badly, but to myself, then i feel weird,  and then the rabies symptoms come to my head, and i just cant seem to get it out of my head at all. At night, it gets worse, and almost puts me in tears, for panicing. Even if i am in a happy mood, i feel unreal like i explained. But i hope this all goes away soon. And yes, the cat is around. My mom says it is fine, if it had Rabies, it would be acting weird she said. Plus it seems to be fixed, but that is whatelse comes in my mind is sometimes they have an incubation stage of rabies too. But idk.

[JGF25]

The symptoms you are describing, the derealization, that is a form of anxiety.  And when you looked up information on the internet, which by the way runs the gamut of answers from A to Z, you started panicing.  

A rabies infection starts with a fever and headache.  The chances the cat was rabid are very small.  Is the cat still around?  You could have animal control pick it up, they will watch it for a while just to make sure.  However, I'm pretty sure your symptoms are from not taking your thyroid medication.  You said you stopped taking the meds because "you heard it can do some pretty crappy things."  I think anxiety does some pretty crappy things as well.  So give the meds another try and see if these symtpoms go away.