Help with overwhelming feeling?

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Hello.

Last year I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and was put on 20mg Citalopram and went through a 12 week counselling service. I thought everything was fine after that but it really wasn't. I came crashing down a couple of months ago, and I am now worse than what I was. I was diagnosed with a rolling hiatus hernia back in February '16 so that has contributed to a lot of my stress and I've also just finished University... Anyway, I'm now reaching the point where I feel incredibly hopeless. The doctor has now put me back on citalopram and also now propranolol. One of my biggest problems at the minute is that I get myself worked up. For example, I can wake up during the night and find the smallest thing to panic about! I took my first propranolol today and j feel like absolute rubbish... I'm now getting to the stage of I don't know what to do. Can anyone advise me or just reassure me a little? I'm constantly thinking I'm going to have a heart attack, or have a brain tumour and it is going to kill me. Disturbing, I know, and that's not helping me out at all.

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    I also have the health anxiety with my heart. It sucks to say the least.. When you feel yourself getting anxious or overwhelmed, watch a show, read, write, I find it helpful to look at my hospital papers that say my tests were normal. You're not having a heart attack and you don't have a brain tumor. Maybe speak to your doctor, it could be a slight side effect to the meds. I'm currently being weaned from citalopram because I keep feeling very jittery/overwhelmed/just not right on it.
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    Maybe the dose of the med just needs to be regulated. Some meds also take some adjusting to.
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    Do you have a therapist or a counsellor or someone who is trained to help?
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      I was put through a counselling programme last year which I didn't find very beneficial, and now I'm on the waiting list for a different strand of counselling - focused more on panic.
    • Posted

      CBT was the last form of counselling I had. This next one is a self guided kind of thing.
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      Ended up in hospital again today thinking I was having a heart attack again and she advised me to be referred over to Mental Health Team for psychiatry rather than counselling so guess that's a good thing. Might move quicker too.
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      Not sure - have to wait for the discharge notes to go to GP then wait for an appointment to see them and then wait for the referral I guess
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      do you know what kind of therapy they're going to give you?
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      No absolutely no idea. The hospital just said that clinically there is absolutely nothing wrong with me, and that my thoughts are causing stress and that's the underlying issue so I need help for it. I've been to hospital roughly once a week for the past couple of months and it's getting a bit out of hand now
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      sorry to hear that.

      have you considered CBT?

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