Physical Symptoms

kitkat1970 · Post by **kitkat1970** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:05 pm

Dealing with physical symptoms is almost as bad as the mental ones.....feeling dizzy, feeling heavy and lightheaded when I stand up, eating then falling asleep within 20-30 minutes, waking up hard and disoriented sometimes. I feel ok when I am sitting down (usually) but then when I get up and move around I feel worse..it just snowballs. My husband reassures me that it is the vicious cycle of anxiety/depression. Do others have these symptoms?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:10 am

Hi,I feel the exact same way. I lie down or I sit and I'm okay. If I get up and move around I start to feel dizzy, light-headed and much heaviness in my head as though I'm going to pass out. All I can say is I got out of this a year and a half ago by doing the program and I know it can happen again with doing the program for the second time. Unfortunately, in the last couple of months I allowed my old habits to come back with my obsessive thinking patterns and now I have started session 1 again. The worst thing you can do is stay seated or stay lying down. I got better by gradually getting up and doing stuff. The more you work through this program and the more you move around, the better you will start to feel! This is a PROCESS and it takes TIME. Be courageous and faithful. I will pray for our full recovery! To a better life, one step at a time! Claudette

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:51 am

I too have unsteady dizzy feelings. I have a hard time sleeping because it feels like fuzziness in my head. I think its our minds way of protecting us from the vicious cycle of anxiety/panic/stress. I seem to have new symptoms that keep popping up as my anxiety lingers on.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:46 am

I have trouble shutting my brain off. I find that when I'm thinking all of the time, I get the dizzy, light-headed, sick feelings.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:44 am

Claudette,

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Knowing that someone else has/is experiencing what I am makes me less scared, less worried that something else is wrong with me other tnan the anxiety/depression.

Today is one of those particularly hard days where I am convinced that something else is wrong with me--something with my heart, something with my circulation, something that the doctor has missed.......ughhhhhhhh

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:25 pm

Oh yes I do have these syptoms. It sound like you were describing me:) The worst for me is I always feel like I am dehydrated and hung over, and I drink plenty of water and hardly ever drink alcohol as it adds to my anxiety. The worst is when I am in a supermarket or someplace and I kneel down to get something off of a bottom shelf. When I stand back up I am so dizzy. I try to avoid kneeling at all because of this.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:03 am

Anna,

I know EXACTLY what you are talking about!! I went and saw the doctor again this past Monday. She did and EKG just to make me feel better and again told me there is nothing wrong with my heart. She assures me that it is the anxiety and depression. It is difficult to wrap my head around the fact that these pyschological things can actually cause all of these physical symptoms :0( I took a step forward yesterday and decided to get out of the house even though I felt bad--I can feel bad inside or I can bad outside--at least outside there is sunshine and blue skies!! It turned out to be an ok outing.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:30 am

Hi again,
I don't know if this will help or if this even is a problem for any of you, but when I get those low "pit" feelings of depression I was suggested by a coach from StressCenter to have a notebook where you title it HAPPY THOUGHTS. Anytime you feel down, that dreadful "pit" feeling, you right away write down a list of what you are grateful for, and eventually it will get easier and easier to get out of that down feeling. I've tried it and it sure helps as compared to "thinking" how bad my body feels ect...It only makes things worse when we "think" how bad we feel-it's all negative self-talk. Again I believe this takes TIME and PRACTISE just like everything else we are trying to improve. We can do this!!! I pray for everyone's full recovery! One step at a time!