Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:40 am
Hi,
I am a survivor of a 5years abusive relationship.I'm 24 years old and have been out of this nightmare for about 10months now. I was doing well up until last november where it all of a sudden hit me. I started having overwhelming anxiety, irrational fears of hurting myself, other people even my dog or my bf. I got to the point where the anxiety was so strong that i could not eat anything or get any sleep. I also seem to have a hormonal imbalance. My period seem to be very slow to start...spotting for days and days...and then i go from doing a lil better to come crashing down with disableing anxiety and depression even suicidal thoughts. I have finally seen a psychiatrist who told me this could be post-traumatic desorder. But why do i feel like im on a rollercoaster and everytime i get close to my period i get so low and feel like no matter how hard i try its going to be like this every month....WHat should i do? I got my TSH tested and it came back "normal" is there any other homonal tests i should do? or should i just assume that this is all psychological? Also..is irrational fears and thoughts of hurting other people normal in a post traumatic desorder case? Iv read alot about those and it seems more in the line of OCD. Is there anyone here going through a similar situation and what has been helpful to you as far as medication, therapy ect...I am basicly right now to the point where everyday is a mysery. I JUST try to make it through the next day....I cant work because im scared of being around people..and i am normally a very sociable person. Iv become a totally diffrent person since it all started. I constantly have a feeling of being about to "loose my mind" which is what makes me fear that i could hurt someone. The mere sight of a knife or sharp object will trigger an anxiety attack. I do not have any knifes in my house for that reason, my bf keeps all my pills away from me..because i dont trust myself anymore.
Am i hopeless? Is it possible to recover from all of this? It seems to me like i will never get better
Plz send me your help and support, i could really use it right now.
Thank you
I am a survivor of a 5years abusive relationship.I'm 24 years old and have been out of this nightmare for about 10months now. I was doing well up until last november where it all of a sudden hit me. I started having overwhelming anxiety, irrational fears of hurting myself, other people even my dog or my bf. I got to the point where the anxiety was so strong that i could not eat anything or get any sleep. I also seem to have a hormonal imbalance. My period seem to be very slow to start...spotting for days and days...and then i go from doing a lil better to come crashing down with disableing anxiety and depression even suicidal thoughts. I have finally seen a psychiatrist who told me this could be post-traumatic desorder. But why do i feel like im on a rollercoaster and everytime i get close to my period i get so low and feel like no matter how hard i try its going to be like this every month....WHat should i do? I got my TSH tested and it came back "normal" is there any other homonal tests i should do? or should i just assume that this is all psychological? Also..is irrational fears and thoughts of hurting other people normal in a post traumatic desorder case? Iv read alot about those and it seems more in the line of OCD. Is there anyone here going through a similar situation and what has been helpful to you as far as medication, therapy ect...I am basicly right now to the point where everyday is a mysery. I JUST try to make it through the next day....I cant work because im scared of being around people..and i am normally a very sociable person. Iv become a totally diffrent person since it all started. I constantly have a feeling of being about to "loose my mind" which is what makes me fear that i could hurt someone. The mere sight of a knife or sharp object will trigger an anxiety attack. I do not have any knifes in my house for that reason, my bf keeps all my pills away from me..because i dont trust myself anymore.
Am i hopeless? Is it possible to recover from all of this? It seems to me like i will never get better
Plz send me your help and support, i could really use it right now.
Thank you