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Another anxiety attack...
May 07, 2008 09:50AM
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Was having an OK day yesterday but had a lot of "little" stresses. Nothing out of the norm for a typical day though. Things just seemed to pile up. Then on the way home, in the car WHAM. A full blown anxiety attack. I almost turned at the light to go to the hospital but made it home where I promptly popped 2 xanax calmed down and went to sleep. I woke up for a few hours still calm from the xanex but this morning I can still feel the lingering stress. It's like a snake looking for a hole in a fence to get through. I'm at work on a single 5-htp and hanging on.
I'm coming up on 4 freaking months clean and have been doing fairly well till lately. I HAVE to be able to function. My family HAS to have me functioning. I CAN NOT fall apart. Is it possible that all the 5htp I've been taking has just thrown me way off balance somehow?
I'm on the verge of throwing in the towel and getting on Lexapro. I really wanted to do this as naturally as possible but I'm not sure I can anymore. The swings from low to high to low are becoming too much to handle.
I'm scared of being scared....
I'm coming up on 4 freaking months clean and have been doing fairly well till lately. I HAVE to be able to function. My family HAS to have me functioning. I CAN NOT fall apart. Is it possible that all the 5htp I've been taking has just thrown me way off balance somehow?
I'm on the verge of throwing in the towel and getting on Lexapro. I really wanted to do this as naturally as possible but I'm not sure I can anymore. The swings from low to high to low are becoming too much to handle.
I'm scared of being scared....
Hi Duck, I don't know about the drug you are coming off of but I want to tell you that I do know it is hard and I will pray for you.Four months is really awesome .You have come so far, remember the one day at a time.It is ok to need help, that is one thing none of us can do with out. Use the help that is here for you to help you get stronger. Call someone here that can relate. I would like to say that maybe you need to do this for your self and right now you just need cope with you and getting stronger and not to carry burdens of anyone else. That can be too much at once and too hard to handle.Any time some one is getting clean, the mine needs healing and cared for too. You can't care for others till you can care for yourself. I hope there is a way to not have so much pressure on yourself, it can cause you to backslide sometimes. Use that Serenity Prayer, the things you can not change, you have to let it go, don't let it control you, that's setting you up.You seem to have so much on your plate, hand over to God what you can not change, the wisdom is to know what you can not change and deal with what you can, on a one day at a time. We all are praying for you...........hey.......can we hear a few pots and pans banging out here? You are doing great, just tend to your self first. Maggiesue
A few words of encouragement.
Stay away from anti-depressants. EVERYONE I have ever talked to that took them had side-effects that were worse than the reason they started taking them.
Yes the benzos are bad too, and I would try to limit them, but the worst fear of an anxiety attack IS, the fear itself.
Over and over, I have read this. The fear of an attack is greater than the attack.
I sure wish you well, and I hope you can get a hold of your anxiety.
Best wishes,and I will pray for your recovery. After so many months doing great!!!!!
~R
Stay away from anti-depressants. EVERYONE I have ever talked to that took them had side-effects that were worse than the reason they started taking them.
Yes the benzos are bad too, and I would try to limit them, but the worst fear of an anxiety attack IS, the fear itself.
Over and over, I have read this. The fear of an attack is greater than the attack.
I sure wish you well, and I hope you can get a hold of your anxiety.
Best wishes,and I will pray for your recovery. After so many months doing great!!!!!
~R
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