Posted by emmanuel98 on June 7, 2011, at 19:21:16
In reply to Re: Please, any antidepressant best to help anxiety » sleepygirl2, posted by hyperfocus on June 7, 2011, at 14:50:35
I've recently started having constant anxiety for the first time in my life. I have struggled with bad depression for a few years. The anxiety is completely physical. I feel sick. I eat when I'm hungry but food tastes like cardboard. I breathe shallowly and have to constantly remind myself to take deep breaths. My limbs feel tingly and My head feels strange, like I am walking underwater. Things seem unreal. It is hard for me to feel connected to people since it seems they are talking from underwater. I do deep breathing exercises constantly and do mindfulness exercises (I take a DBT class) and I try to schedule myself up to distract myself.
NOthing works for more than a few minutes.
I have a prescription for lorazapem for sleep and have been taking half doses during the day to try to control this, but it has only a minimal effect. If I take a full dose, I fall asleep.
I just started working with a DBT therapist with whom I have had to make a contract for safety. That's when the anxiety started. She thinks the anxiety is due to having the option of suicide shut down. In the past, suicidal thoughts and plans calmed me.
I have never before experienced bad anxiety for more than a day or two and it is horrible, worse than depression.
I take parnate for depression, but I think the stimulating effect of the parnate makes the anxiety worse and harder to control. It's not controlling my depression anymore anyway, so I am cutting back the dosage.
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