Posted by Vincent_QC on June 14, 2013, at 10:43:13
In reply to Re: New PDoc RX Lamictal for severe anxiety... » Vincent_QC, posted by g_g_g_unit on June 13, 2013, at 22:03:46
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> yes homebound and agoraphobic and unable to work. i can take a walk around my neighborhood, but going much further than that can be difficult. i find i can go places if i drive, however -- for some reason a car feels safe.Thats weird, I mean agoraphobia and being homebound is about not being able to go out of your house without experiencing panic and a lot of anxiety... I can't drive, I can't even go by car as a passenger on the highway... Can't take a walk in the street cause I panic if I go too far away from home... So my guess is that you are not 100% agoraphobic... And the fact that you can drive away from your house also mean that you are not really homebound? I don't want to minimized what you live, anxiety is the worse thing in life... But at least you can drive and get out of your house to walk without feeling like you will die... And it's a great thing... Loosing all your freedom and not being able to get out of your house, can't drive or be a passenger of a car especially on the highway and not being able to stay alone at home is what I call being homebound and agoraphobic...
> i can be alone at home, yeah; i do still experience anxiety/obsessional symptoms at home but they become a lot worse when i have to leave the house.
>I find out that I can be alone at home but only at daytime... but I will avoid things like taking a shower or having a bowel movement when I'm alone, I don't know why I can't do those things when I'm alone but my guess is that it's linked to the fact that I faint several times in my shower and also when I had a bowel movement... So I fear that it happen again... I think it's anticipatory anxiety no? Also I have IBS with big C, no laxative work, only thing who move my bowel are 12 glycerin suppositories... And even with all those suppositories I need to strain really hard... I'm in pain most of the time and that pain is worse at night cause all the foods who is waiting to get out of me... So at night I can't sleep and have insomnia mainly cause of the pain who prevent me to fall asleep... Also I can't get up in the middle of the night to go pee, my heart start racing and I have bad panic attacks at night... Probably cause I know that most of the time heart attack occur at night or early in he morning cause of the higher cortisol and adrenaline level...
Anxiety suck... Since 3 years it's like I have no life at all... Everything turn around my physical symptoms... I can't stop thinking about the symptoms since I feel them all the time non stop... Have lost all my interests, have no friends (I'm not looking for pity here), the fact that I can't even enjoy music without feeling like I wi die, can't read a book cause it make me feel disconnected and trigger panic and make me feel so mentally tired, the fact that I can't even take my car and drive, or can't enjoy a family dinner cause too many people's around me make me feel very anxious and lethargic and trigger panic... All of this lead to 0 life... I don't wish that to my worse enemy...
I'm like you on that too, when I absolutely need to get out of the house for Doc appointment, I become extremely anxious, me who is already very anxious at home and have many panic attacks at home each day, out the house it's even worse, I'm almost in a non stop panic attack mood until I return home and it take all my low level of energy and need 3-4 days to recover...
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