Panic Attacks are debilitating
I can not seem to function with this disorder. I find the attacks becoming so intense. I always go to the worst case scenerio. I overthink things to the point I can not breathe. I feel like I am a prisoner in my own mind. I can't seem to do simple tasks, I am becoming seriously defeated. I feel like I I am in a constant fight or flight, I'm paranoid, I am exhausted but can't rest and I feel like my personal relationships are paying the price. I have talked with my husband and he says he understands but does he really?
Does anyone have these same symptoms? How do you deal with these? I do not take medication. I want to be able to function. I can not even maintain adulting. Please tell me that at some point I am going to be ok.
@turquoiseLunch6955
Hello, I think its impossible for anybody to understand what you are describing unless or until it happens to them. That is why; we who suffer are quite good at helping each other. The confusion is an illusion, but we percieve this as all to real. Ive suffered anxiety for 2 years and i was begining to give up. That 2 years of suffering finally convinced me that my ways just were not going to work. Although i had very major trust issues, I finally had to come to the realization that id be doomed if i stubbornly kept trying to figure myself out. I finally recently made a real pysciatrist appointment, and i told here as much as i could about how ive.been suffering and about my sh idiation. I finally had to give this problem to her and let her tell me what to do.
Im so glad that i finally aggreed to get real help, and to give trusting somebody a try. Ive decided not to research my meds and find reasons not to try them. Im not going to keep getting in my own way. Ive been on prozac and buspar for a month and although idiation got worse for a week, Now i feel free of that tourmented feeling. I have good moments of calm now, and am noticing my ways of thinking are more constructive, and not as self-defeating. Yes my freind, it can get better, and it will: But you must lower your gaurds, and humbly go ask for help and be honest with yourself. Calmly take a step to make an appointment. Then except the meds they reccomend, and as your med levels begin to balance you out, you will feel a sence of calm and start to notice little pleasent ways you begine to evolve the ways you think, and percieve.
I had all but given up but i had a theory;
When in doubt, i dont😊
Just knowing i can sit through the paranoia and it will pass began to give me confidence. The same with anxiety even the worst of them. But now im about a full week without anxiety, without ideation, and have a new sence of hope; which is empowering.
Blessings