Posted by rainyday on March 23, 2004, at 9:06:06
In reply to Re: Acute anxiety » rainyday, posted by kid47 on March 22, 2004, at 19:13:26
Thanks for your thgouhtful replies. I am on xanax for anxiety. Had been on buspar but it gave me incessant headaches. Also was on 150mg of effexor xl which helped with my bipolar2 but shot my blood pressure up dangeroudsly high. So now I am weaning s-l-o-w-l-y off that and on to wellbutrin. Lots of medication juggling which I'm sure is not helping.
It was so weird yesterday. ALl the way home I felt like I was going to have a heart attack. My mind was racing about calling my brothers, calling my mom, but I couldn't pick up the phone without bawling. As soon as I got inside my house, the anxiety disappeared, but I still could not bring myself to call anyone.
We are a very uncommunicative family and I am (naturally) the "sensitive" one, prone to emotional outbursts not acceptable in our uptight upbringing.
Today I am not as anxious, but am in a deep dark funk. I feel like my illness colours everything I see and do. I am at work and losing the struggle not to cry. It's hard even to write this.
I have calls in to both my p-doc for the meds and my T for the mess I'm in.
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