Will this ever end?

Thank you so much for your reply, today has kinda been one of my best for a long while, however halfway through the day as im writing this i got all the negative, and terriable thoughts back, plus i feel so anxious, this is unbearable, im wondering if this is depression or something else, the feelings bubbling up inside of me are terriable, is this anxiety ? ?? Im also not wanting to go out of the house, i dont want this thing to over take me, its too much, do you just have a low mood? I cannot eat properly, ive lost 3stone in 3 months....The thoughts, do they go away, with recovery? or are they just surpressed? 

Hi Angie,

very sorry to hear you feel this way. I understand. It sounds like anxiety attacks what you are describing, rather than low mood/depression. Do you also observe any physical symptoms when the anxiety comes on?

I also suffer from anxiety. This has really increased since being on fluoxetine. Before taking it, it was maybe every few days, but now it is daily and some days it is all day. I am 28 days on the meds. As you say it is an unbearable feeling. I feel very tense and feel the anxiety in my body, mainly shoulders, arms, upper back...like my body is getting ready for 'flight or fight'. I get worries about everything, even things that are not my situation. I am also struggling to be alone, have like a desperate feeling to be around someone in order not to feel so scared, and to be distracted. Like today I had one of the worst days feeling anxious and I had no food all day, there is no appetite so like you I am also losing lots of weight, about 1.5 stone in 4 weeks now.

With recovery...difficult to say. I took fluoxetine successfully in the past for short periods of time (3-9 mts max) and was very lucky those times not to have side efffects and increased anxiety like I have now. Some 3-4 weeks later I started feeling calmer. When anxious thoughts were coming, somehow the effect of them was less overbearing, I managed in most cases to remain calm and I presume the serotonin in the brain sort of made me not to care so much about what I would before find very upsetting. That is probably the best I can describe how it worked for me in the past.

The medication increases level of serotonin in the brain, so with improved mood it is likely that the bad throughts decrease. But otherwise I think the emotions as response to them are surpressed a bit. But if your anxieties have deep roots like originating from some past trauma for example that has been unexplored, then it would be best to start doing therapy too, so you explore the causes and learn to create different thoughts and coping mechanisms. I have been in therapy in the past whenever taking fluoxetine, and that worked well for me and enabled me to come off the meds with no immediate relapses. This time around I am also in therapy. But the medication is taking it's time to show positive effects for me this time.

How is your sleep? Does the anxiety affect it for you?

I am temporarily on help with sleeping pills, which at least gives me good physical rest.

Sending you lots of positive thoughts and wishes of some good moments each day! Let me know how you get on

Luci

Ive only been taking it for a week, its been hard, I really want a quick fix, but what is worrying is the thoughts I have, they are very bad and make me feel worse, did this happen to you? if so did they surpress? 

Does i feel so horrible inside, today I felt quite good, and was able to do quite a bit, but then statred to think about good things and I became anixious, praying all this ends soon, i cannot see my life like this forever....