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I'm wondering if anyone is in the same boat I felt great for a few months now i seem to be feeling really anxious again, has anyone else had this happen to them ? Thanks
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julie92859 Mitchy82
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Mitchy82 julie92859
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julie92859 Mitchy82
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Yes hang in together it helps a lot it's such an awful feeling we suffer that it is good to be able to talk to those who understand
katecogs Mitchy82
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That's completely normal when recovering - they're called setbacks. 3 steps forward and 2 steps back all the way, and sometimes even after you think you've recovered. Just let them come and go, know they're part of recovery - they'll go.
julie92859 katecogs
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The mornings are terrible I find I worry about how I am going to get through the day even seeing family is hard as I feel out of things and scared will this horrible feeling ever go I keep getting lured back in did you feel this way where you think you will never get better it's so hard
brenda80266 julie92859
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hi Julie I'm much the same been on meds since Xmas 60mg since Feb thought I was doing ok but the last couple of weeks feeling more anxious and thoughts i to struggle in a morning at the moment focused on joint pain mind running wild always thinking the worst I've been on meds before so I'm hoping things will settle it just wears you down fighting this illness every day good luck x
katecogs julie92859
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julie92859 brenda80266
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xx
julie92859 katecogs
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katecogs julie92859
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It can take longer second time on meds - it did for me. Second time was about 8 months and I had different symptoms. Taking the same meds doesn't mean you'll have the same experience as before. I knew the meds worked for me so trusted they'd come right for me again.
Yes its a horrible thing to go through - I was constantly aware of 'it' every second of the day, whether I was at work, watching TV, talking to someone, out and about ....... there was always this 'thing' between me and what I was doing. Very tiring (and tiresome).
mrs_susan74280 katecogs
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katecogs mrs_susan74280
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No I was on Citalopram, another type of SSRI
I've hear Escitalopram is good and has fewer side effects?
julie92859
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Mitchy82 katecogs
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katecogs julie92859
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It is good to chat to others - makes you realise you aren't the only one. Yes its difficult for people to understand unless they've had it too.
katecogs Mitchy82
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Yes I've taken meds twice (Citalopram ...... though they do the same job). It does seem to take longer second time around - it did for me too and I had different symptoms too. First time it took around 6 months to recover and the second time about 8 months.
julie92859 katecogs
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katecogs julie92859
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The morning are the worst. Its almost like a sudden realisation that you have another day to get through. In my darkest days I sometimes just couldn't get out of bed and I'd skip work, then spend the day at home crying, feeling wretched and sick. Making myself get up and go to work, even though I didn't want to, actually was better in the long run as being with people and working helped. I still of course took my anxiety with me to work, but I didn't feel quite so bad.
When I started medication it took 6 months to recover on them - and right through that time I still woke every day with that dreadful morning anxiety. It was the last symptom to disappear. It was around 3 months into the meds I began to have little glimpses of feeling normal / myself, which was in the evenings only. Yet the next day I'd again wake with terrible anxiety, and that same day I'd start having those normal feelings again in the evening. This began to happen every day, and over time those normal feelings started happening earlier in the evening, then the afternoon, then midday, late morning etc ...... yet still I'd wake with dreadful anxiety. Finally at 6 months I woke and had no anxiety at all and so my day was anxiety free all day.
Throughout those 6 months though I still got setbacks where I'd feel I'd gone backwards and those glimpses of normality didn't happen for a few days or weeks, but they came back as the setback disappeared. The setbacks happened throughout the 6 months but became less intense.
So however much anxiety you wake with, its not an indication of how the rest of your day will be. Remind yourself that this is part of recovery and it will stop one day.
On waking and feeling bad, its best not lie there, but get up, maybe go for a walk, or just shower or whatever, get dressed and get on with your day. Moving about and getting on helps with that gloom. Keeping relaxed and not fighting it helps too.
A daily walk out in the sunshine, or just the light, really helps.
When I finally cottoned onto the pattern I was going through I felt that I could cope with having anxiety every morning and I could live with that if that's how it was going to always be. But of course, that morning anxiety also stopped which was brilliant.
So throughout recovery you take your anxiety with you. You can't leave it behind, but as you take it with you it does eventually over time.
katecogs julie92859
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Forgot to add:
Any hope you may have felt in the day is always lost the next day you wake. Its like every day is groundhog day - you will go over the same thing every day. Wake bad, build hope, feel progress ....... and it repeats every day. Each day though it will ease just a tiny bit, so tiny you probably won't notice it.
So treat it like groundhog day ..... for now
julie92859 katecogs
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