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I've been in an anxiety attack for hours. I'm scared.

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brandon69357
brandon69357

Ive had GAD and panic diagnoses for years.  I've been in a bad place for 6 months now.  Attacks every day and near constant state of heightened anxiety.  About 2 hours ago I started to get that sensory awareness and I started to get anxious.  Took .5 xanax.  More anxious took .5 xanax an hour later.  I'm still feeling dizzy scared foggy headed and while it's not full blown it's not going away.  I am not a novice.  I would estimate I have had 1,000 attacks.  After xanax and still experiencing symptoms I am concerned.  Over the last months I have had moments of clarity and I feel determined and accepting of it being anxiety.  But Geeeez then I get bad one and I am sure I am having a stroke or dying somehow.  Of course I see doctor therapist and psychiatrist.  Right now I am taking propranolol and xanax as I am very ssri sensitive.  This is really getting hard to manage.  I have really had enough of the suffering.  I am getting agoraphobic and having avoidance.  I'm scared of doctors telling me I have ms or tumors etc...  I'm almost 40 and I am a frightened child.  I have a very fun trip planned this weekend and it's been planned for months.  I don't even think I can make it.  I am a mess.  Right now I know I'm not being rational but I think I might have a disease.  

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  • arthur62818
    arthur62818 brandon69357

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    Hey Brandon,

    The good news is that you are not alone and you are at the right place where members care and will try to help.

    Back in a time was suffering from panic attack and disorder, and I managed to walk away from it with peace.Taking meds are temporary releafe and are not a solution same as coping with the symptom. Just take a pen and paper and find a place where it feels calm, nice and pleasant, like someplace in nature or at the beach. Places like this promote calmness. Find out what are the stressors,  and write them down, and try to figure out how you can overcome with positive believable thought, something that you can believe is doable.FOCUS: Don't focus on negative thoughts, guess what you will end up with negative emotions causing anxiety attacks, even though emotions are nothing but a product of your thoughts and feelings that you can overwrite them. Easy to say, I know, but it is doable. Need to be practiced, and one day it will work. Like this good saying "Fake it till you make it". Focus on positive thoughts, the human brain is very powerful, imagine something beautiful or something that you feel safe, anything that makes you feel good and safe, make that picture bigger and bigger unit you can see yourself in that safe and beautiful picture of your imagination, play some good relaxing music or something that makes you feel good. Take baby steps and you are guaranteed that peace will come to you. It is a matter of understanding that panic attacks and anxiety are part of us and we can't run away from it, just need to approach wisely.THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS: doesn't matter the thought is negative or positive once you ruminate on it eventually you will see or feel the physical outcome. So let's chance your negative thoughts substituting with positive ones and it will take you to your desired destination.Wishing you all the best and will be more than happy to help.

  • lisalisa67
    lisalisa67 brandon69357

    Posted

    Are you doing a it better today?
    • brandon69357
      brandon69357 lisalisa67

      Posted

      You know how it goes... I am at the moment. It's so unpredictable. It seems like you need a week or two of feeling just fine to get back to normal. (And then 1 bad day can send you right back). I was concerned yesterday that even with the anti anxiety medication it wasn't really responding. I kind of stayed at like a level 7 or 8 for about 6 hours straight. I only took 1.5mg of xanax total over that 6 hours so it's not like I popped the whole bottle but usually a .5 can bring me down. I suppose I'm probably getting used to the medication and need more mg's. I am doing everything I can to get well but the one thing I know is that I kind of just have to wait it out because my system in just hyper sensitive and overactive. Takes a while to recover. Thank you so much for checking in. Are you better and in a normal place right now or do you struggle with it daily?

    • lisalisa67
      lisalisa67 brandon69357

      Posted

      Im dealing with some wicked tmj/tmd stuff lately. Making a mess out of me. I cant use oain meds because my ent said it hurts my ears tinnitus and sound sensitive. She blames the pain meds and or muscle relaxants. And so im not so haooy lately, the word thing is everyine says anxiety is behind it that makes you coench and i wasnt anxious. Or didnt know i was. I dont know, they sent me to see a nuerologist but its appt is end of july. Maybe it will resolve by then. I was doing acuounture i think it made it all more inflammed i dont  even know.  I was ok woth all this but since end december nit really the jaw thing started and ear noises and sensitivety with that. But  i get good days and bad days. If i can get all this tmj and ear sound stuff to calm down imwould be good. I have this disorder a long time so i thought i had seen it all and mine ran in cycles  mostly.  The jaw and ear im steuggling woth. I cant escape the tinnitus all kinds or weird ear sensitivity. Thats all new.  This all just really stinks.  Im so disturbed how one thinks i am suppose to be an emotional robot feeling awful. If i didnt have ailments and or symptoms clearly id be happy and so would 80 percent of the people on here
  • steven47549
    steven47549 brandon69357

    Posted

    I'm in the same exact state as you right now.  I have moments of clarity, but they can be short lived.  Xanax doesn't have the mitigating power that it once did.  Stay strong, there are a lot of us in the same boat.  My symptoms tend to shift over time, I was focusing over my heart for the longest time, that was recently checked and cleared, so now I'm feeling that it's something wrong with my brain, and I can't rid myself of this foggy feeling.  

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