anxiety out of the blue
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ok, was to the doctors on friday jan 9, told him that my anxiety had seemed to have kicked in again out of the blue ! am currently taking 20 mg and have been taking this dosage since dec9/14, started out on 10 mg which eventually seemed to reach a plateau hence the 20 mg dosage. this week past was that time of the month for me and is ordinarily a rough go without the cit. The past 2 days have been really rough with what seems to be anxiety kicking up , almost to the point if there was a way to climb out of my body i would.Doing all i can to keep busy along with walking 5 km a day, Up until my period things seemed to be good... not sure what is going on! my doctor didnt seem to want to adress it and im not sure why, now it seems im gonna have to go back again , why would anyone want to feel this way if they could help it
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katecogs candace33298
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When you take SSRI's you first go through nasty side effects, and when these start to wear off you begin to feel calmer, then quite good. After a while you'll experience anxiety or whatever again, and this is when people panic and rush to alter their medication. These are setbacks, and seem to be quite common when recovering, and if you wait, just accept them, they'll pass and you'll begin to feel good again. You'll get many, but each time they'll get less severe, until they disappear.
It's very hard feeling like you're ill again, but it hasn't returned, it's just you going through the process of recovery. It's how the medication works ....... and it proves it's working as you've now got to this stage.
You'll get setbacks for a while .. up and down, up and down ...... but just let them be there, and remind yourself that this is the normal process of recovery. It'll pass.
K x
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melanie00616 candace33298
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It sounds like you are around ovulation time - which would kick the anxiety out of the blue if nothing else is going on. Don't worry about your GP they just don't really know what to do, but rather than say that right out they just brush right over things. Best thing for you to do and was real good advice to me, is to keep a daily dairy of everything. Because with me mine was cyclic and no getting away from it. When my ovaries are building is the worse and around ovulation and then before my period. Don't worry about any thing. Will get to the bottom of it all.
As always big hugs and here.
Mel xx
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melanie00616 candace33298
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I am a counsellor so I can give you so much advice I did a reply to Dawn, I can find the forum or discussion to let you read it, all about anxiety and it is a learned response etc. etc. This will give you so much head start for you with a counsellor - good for you girl.
Mel xxx (Big hugs) Always here to help.
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i kind of thought where my dosage was upped dec 9, to 20 mg that it might still be side effects and they may pass , i guess its a wait and see
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As always big hugs. Mel Xx
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Hope you are feeling better today.
Looked at trying to cut, copy or paste discussion with Dawn 1208 - but to no avail.
I hope this really helps as I found this knowledge invaluable.
It is about the limbic system of the brain, it is where all the automatic responses and emotions are stored. Including automatic survival responses, fight, flight and freeze. Anxiety is a learned response that we all learn. Every body has anxiety and feelings come and go all day long. Anxiety can be used as an anesthetic to cope with feelings, normally a fear of something. Though uncomfortable, the emotion releases neurochemicals that cause the body to speed up to avoid the feeling. We can reprogramme this part of our brain as normally the fear is of being out of control, (stress), which we all feel at certain times of our lives. Anxiety in its self. Reprogramming it is like reprogramming computer takes time. First off you have to find out what is triggering it .
Once you find out what is triggering it you can then tell your brain, although it is flagging it as dangerous, it is not really happening, as it only has to be a former shaddow of a feeling, but the brain thinks it is happening all over again.
Obviously it will take a little time but once you start to put it in to practice - which again is reality thinking your brain will learn not to focus on it.
Other things that are important whilst going through this is setting realistic goals which gives us a good sense of achievement - gratification - which the brain loves when you are feeling low. I find going for a nice walk, looking at the beauty of nature and also do some craft work.
There is lots within the process, but we always do things slowly and at the pace of the person as we are all different.
One of the first processes is to do a life history, which will show any patterns that have happened in life. It will normally be a mistrust of some kind and needs that have not been met within our lives.
Obviously we look at lots more, teach tools etc. etc. But will take things one step at a time.
Lots of love and hugs.
Melxx
candace33298 melanie00616
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with the life history how far back do we need to go, cause man it could take a long while and how detailed , i can do this but kind of need to know more about what you want. could you help me pinpoint?
thank you so much for all your help so far and your concern for me as a person, hugs, candace
melanie00616 candace33298
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Walking really does help. We took on a rescue boxer - Turbo who really does live up to his name and I find that once I have my walk in the morning, I am set up for the day.
Have they given you a date or are you still looking for a counsellor?
The life history is very brief, pin points, it is major events in your life. Believe it or not it starts in the womb. My mum was anxious because she had three miscarriages before me. So for me it would that. But some it would traumatic birth. Then I was in hospital at 7 seriously ill, divorce, etc etc. It really is just major events.
For me they put me in isolation, in the dark and gave me a lumber puncture. So when ill and can't get out of bed, my brain didn't used to like being alone and this was because in sub concious was reverting back to thinking, oh no this is going to hurt as back then my parents couldn't stay over night with me, we were away in a caravan and they couldn't come and see me til about 10 am and I used to cry apparently til they got there. Now I know what was playing in my subconcious - fine. As I used to hate being ill.
To counsel you first have to go through counselling, to understand and be able to sit in the other persons place and feel what they felt.
I hope this helps and no probs as finding the right people to help you is so hard. Big hugs, Mel Xx
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p.s. The guy who trained me had 25 years of experience.
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Don't worry I will help you get there.
Mel xx