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Daughter 19 having Panic attacks!
Hi everyone! I have been dealing with depression and used to have severe panic attacks for about 20 yrs. I have a question to see who can help me, I know that this IS hereditary because my mother suffered from this attacks and my oldest sister too. Now my 19 yr old daughter is having them. I took her to my dr and he said it was absolutely panic attacks and gave her a very small dose of Prosac. (20mg) Now my question is, is she to young to be on meds and is she to young to be having anxiety and panic attacks?
I'd noticed since she was very very young that she was a very anxious child and was nervous most of the time. This was when she was about 5 or 6 yrs old. She did not like to go to parties with lost of children around. She was always with me. She had trouble in school with ADD and was treated badly by teacher who did no understand her ADD. every time I took her to school either she vomited or fainted and had to bring her back home. I inmediately changed her to another school and she was so happy but still very very anxious.
Do ADD and anxiety kind of go together???
I hope I get get some useful insight on this matter I feel for her because she is a precious young lady and do not want her to go through want I went through. It was hell for me.
Thanks!
I'd noticed since she was very very young that she was a very anxious child and was nervous most of the time. This was when she was about 5 or 6 yrs old. She did not like to go to parties with lost of children around. She was always with me. She had trouble in school with ADD and was treated badly by teacher who did no understand her ADD. every time I took her to school either she vomited or fainted and had to bring her back home. I inmediately changed her to another school and she was so happy but still very very anxious.
Do ADD and anxiety kind of go together???
I hope I get get some useful insight on this matter I feel for her because she is a precious young lady and do not want her to go through want I went through. It was hell for me.
Thanks!
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Yes they do. I was 28 when I was diagnosed as having ADD. I suffered with it my entire life, but they didn't have a name for it when I was younger.
It was at this same time that they told me that I also suffered from anxiety.
The anxiety, I think, comes from the difficulties that are faced from the symptoms of ADD.
However...I also have GERD and IBS...both of which go hand in hand with anxiety...so...to sum it up...anxiety and many other things can go hand in hand.
Hope I've helped, and not added to the confusion. lol
It was at this same time that they told me that I also suffered from anxiety.
The anxiety, I think, comes from the difficulties that are faced from the symptoms of ADD.
However...I also have GERD and IBS...both of which go hand in hand with anxiety...so...to sum it up...anxiety and many other things can go hand in hand.
Hope I've helped, and not added to the confusion. lol
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Can say that anxiety disorders are most definitely genetic in origin. Every woman in my family went from being creative, ahead of their time, social creatures to solitary drinkers in their age. No one went to psychiatrists...one aunt took a rest at a sanatorium....an uncle (also a heavy drinker) ws hospitalized with PTSD.
In the younger generation, two have symptoms..one is now a psychologist....so let's be ever so grateful that psychiatrists and therapists are available to help us. No one needs to suffer thru' this stuff alone.
You are a great mom...and I loved what you said to the anxious guy...I have had the tummy issues for ages...my family finally understands...well most of them...but hey...i'm 76...they really have to accept my eccentricities stem from a disorder I sure didn't ask for:).
Lastly on the genetic thing: my first symptoms probably appeared before I was 10....trip from Michigan to Florida was pure hell for me...deathly sick the entire way...motels turning us away as they thought I had polio...
Very glad effexor and clonazapine are working for you...I can't take effexor anymore....but am on steady dose of clonazapam...and enjoy my life..most of the time...
Blessings....