Can anyone relate / identify to these symptoms?

[riprock]

Hi, I'm going to make this as brief as possible as i've described my symptoms / story to so  many people and it gets tiresome..

-Drank / smoked pot heavily for about 7 years until 20 ... always felt totally healthy during this stage
- got into hard drugs ( ecstasy  / ketamine )
- had first "panic attack" during an ecstasy high and haven't been normal since then

Symptoms i get .... Right now i feel absolutely fine, 100% normal... if i'm relaxed at my computer i feel as healthy as a horse. If i go out with friends or am in a large crowd my head starts feeling really really shakey... i feel as if i'm going to passout / blackout and as if i'm going to have a seizure really... Like  i cant support my head kind of and i always have to lean back on things cause it just feels unbelieavbly heavy and is hard to control... sortev as if my head has two bricks attached to it or my neck just isnt strong enough to support it

I dont know if what i'm having are anxiety attacks as i never get a shortness of breath or heart palpitations and i'm not really anxious or thinking that im going to die.... Feel as if i'm going crazy / seizureing / ready to passout and lose control.  Doctors say it's anxiety, but i just dont feel like that anxious of a person so i dont know..

I've been trying to deal with this for so long naturally with a little help from ativan but nothing works.... I've been recommended celexa from docs and i think this is the route im going to take now as i more or less cant do anything anymore without this contsant state of feeling as if my brain has sensory overload... Like For instance if i'm sitting in class and someone bumps the table i'm sitting at ... it's as if i feel it through my whole body... like my senses are just overreacting or something.

I really want to know if anyone else gets these symptoms and doesnt get the other more 'characteristic symtpoms of a panic attack... Feels as if ecstasy or something else just permanently damaged a section of my brain.

honestly all of this is making my life unlivable... my brain is thinking about it every waking moment and i just cant kick it ... helppppp :(  

[riprock]

Thanks for the replies,

Yeah i dont feel depressed at all, which makes this so much more hard. I dont feel like i need an anti-depressant but i can't get over this and have been trying for like 6 months. I'll mention klonopin to the psychiatrist, thanks for the suggestion. Seriously i feel like this whole thing has taken away my life.... going out on weekends to the bar with friends is virtually impossible as everything just seems to lead to these feelings now :(

3 questions : Can i drink while on celexa ? i know it's not recommended, but Can i ?? like a 6 pack or so....

and also, has anyone ever let their head shakey / dizzy anxiety just go as far as it can go without leaving the situation? i'm wondering if i did and just kept drinking if i actually would passout or have a seizure...

and also, has anyone fully ever gotten over anxiety? or should i expect to have this for life... i'm also wondering what the goal of SSRI's are... you go on them, stabilize, have therapy... then try and get off them and see if you're normal without them eventually??

Thanks alot

[barfer]

I know how you are feeling and especially the sensory overload.

Quote:    Feel as if i'm going crazy / seizureing / ready to passout and lose control.

This is very familiar ground for me.  I've had anxiety almost all my life and it has manifested over the years in various ways.  The feelings you have are ones that I have too and when I was younger, I didn't feel heart palpitations or  have shortness of breath that I noticed, it was just the feeling of losing control and the going crazy thing (that is a common one for most of us).  If it is just anxiety that you are experiencing and not depression, then you might want to ask your doctor about klonopin as an alternative to Celexa.  It's just a thought and I am not a doctor but, I have tried many SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics and tetracyclics and the long acting benzo (klonopin) has been the best thing for me because I don't have depression and the side effects of the other medications were not that great for me.  If you do have depression as your primary problem, then by all means, go for the celexa.  This is just a suggestion, mind you...something to discuss with your doctor IF your primary problem is anxiety and not depression.  Good luck and let me know what you end up doing and how you feel.

[scaredjo]

hiya im sure you must know that anxiety can show itself in hundreds of different ways, jus type in anxiety symptoms in the top right hand corner of the page. or look under the health topics its unbelievable, sometimes i dont get breathless my head feels funny too kind of like its gonna explode its weird
i truly dont think extacy has damaged your brain to this extent but it can cause the anxiety thats how i started took a pill was sick and i convinced myself it was blood (it wasn cause i went back the day after and checked lol it was vimto) ever since im scared to death of dying!!!!!!!!! try and keep calm