Stress Center Peer Support

Hello! For the past few months I have found my anxiety and panic attacks of increased. Enough so where I don't want to leave my house anymore. I hate the thought of feeling the way I do at home while being out in public. I feel drained from these feelings and tired of hoping it will get better. I know I have to be positive for it to be better but it's sometimes a very hard effort to muster up! I really need to go to the Drs. but have not been in a very long while. I'm afraid he will want to put me on meds. and the side effects it will cause. I just recall some of the begining effects I had prior, and then seeing what other people have said! Oh and the commericals this may cause this or that! I'm like what! No way then!! I have a 6 yr. old daughter and we go to a very small school. At the end of the yr. I volunteered to be the Vice Pres. of our PTF and now I'm thinking why why why! I have meetings I must attend and I also have recess duties. Among other obiligations at the school. Now I find it hard for me to go. I feel off balanced, dizzy to the pt. where I'm sure I will fall over! Yet of course it never has happened! But I hate those feelings. If those certain body feelings would just go away!!! ha I know I must go out and do things but it's just soooo hard to do it right now. I've been in the house for a week now, really no where I have to be. I've been feeling dizzy in the car too lately with all the movement going on. UGH And I woke up last night around 2am feeling faint and dizzy. Of course I broke out the handy BP monitor and took my BP and the lower number has been higher than 90 all night! ugh so needlessly to say I didn't go back to bed until 5ish. We are suppose to go over to our friends house tonight but I really don't want to go!
Ok enough rambling on but I had to get it off my chest. I'm thinking my husband is tired of hearing all those over and over until I get some help for it! Which I need to do! I do know this! ahhh Just wondering how you muster up the strength to just do it anymore! I know my beautiful daughter is one reason and happiness is another. but i've fallen in a rut!
going stir crazy!

Stac541 you are not alone, we all hit these lows and they suck. But you know they will get a little better, never soon enough, but it does and then you can start doing little things again and gradually build your confidence back up. I am so happy to hear so many say they feel the off balance thing, mine started 1 1/2 yrs ago and I also feel faint and am dead sure i will fall over, the feeling is so overwhelming.
All this anxiety /panic and agoraphobic stuff is just too much sometimes. I feel for your committements and how scarey it is, but keep telling youself positive things that will happen at the meeting and the get together tonite and try to focus on that instead of the negative. And it is never as bad as we think once we get there. they are just body symptoms and we can handle them and they won't hurt us. Good Luck!!! So many of us completely understand . Take Care

Just wanted to say its possible to feel better . The . the silver lining was that I ended up in an excellent hospital and got placed on meds that helped me beyond belief! Meds definately have diffferent effects on different people.If your miserable see a psychiatrist and give it a try. Therapists are or can be helpful too. Ive been throu a bunch and love the one i have.Now I can help my older dtr. She sleeps all day and is sooo negative and nasty. I know shes hurting.My little one is hurting too.She has taken alot of my time but has a great Dr There is hope I still need help but will work on finding what i need. Best wishes to all!.

I just wanted to add to this post, and that is that I have been experiencing anxiety again over the past few months and it's hard for me to want to leave the house also. I get up and feel tired, drained, weak, and sometimes I feel faint. I feel that I am gonna just pass out right there on the spot! But guess what?--I NEVER DO! The symptoms of anxiety are so strong and they feel so real that it makes you wonder if you will be able to stand or walk, or drive! I have talked with my physicians about how the weakness is and they say that anxiety causes you to feel fatigue. I know how you feel because you really just want to the symptoms to go away and never return!

stac541.
I know how you feel and been there and for years thought that if I took meds I would have side effects.the meds that I was put on did not give me any.I felt so much better in time and was just as you were maybe worse.I had had panic ,anxiety,agrophobia,depression,derealization and the feared IBS.in time it went away until I felt better and was put on a lower dose of meds and that made it worse again.if I have to be on some meds to deal with things .then so be it.I can now do thins like normal people do.so get out of the rut and getthe nerve to go to the dr.it will do you good to see what is wrong.we all know how hard it is to go.heart rate goes up and bp and all sorts of things and the dr just smiles cause he knows what is wrong.take care and I hope this has helped you. take care and be blessed.
don
the top # is what they look at now with your bp.

Hello.
I know what is happen, I been getting that for the 3 months and more anxiety to. I know it is stress and things, but I do all the stuff to control it, but it dosn't work and I do the relax tapes and that helps a little.
I also have a doc's appointment coming up and was thinking of chaging med's, I'm on xanax and it helps, but I know I need more help on this because the dizz feeling always come's at the wrong time [anytime is wrong] and also the nerves are getting a work out to, at one moment your haveing a good talk with someone and bamm, here it comes, or your just sitting there and think of something and the bp or anxiety hits a new high.
For your better half, yes they really do not understand what we go through, but they do love us and will help and stand by you, I've had this for some 18 years and my wife get's mad and upset, I've given her a chance to leave and or I will, she stayed and that's what it's all about, their love, help, pain and joy, and not understanding and putting up with our stuff.
well just wanted let you know, yes there is other's out here and know what you are going though, tapes help and cd's, also try to buy a mp player and down load all the cd's from the program and other cd's that make you feel relax and feel good, these things are great, they fit in your pocket [no bigger then a card] and you can take it anywhere you need to and if you need a break or a pick me up, plug in the headphone's and your off.
I pick one up for $60.00 [on sale] and the battery last for along time and you recharge it at your coumputer, it's helps a lot, try it.
thanks
woody
toledo

I fell backwards this week too. Sometimes I feel like 2 steps back and one up....It was so bad I missed work friday over something that happened at work on Thursday. When I was getting ready for work - the diarhea hit like a ton of bricks - just the thought of work makes my stomach knot. Then I had my sons bday party last night and classes start for me mon. I have to get over it and go in on Monday! I have to!!! We all have good and bad days - try to keep that in mind.

I visit here a lot when I have panic and fear. I try to remember thousands of people have what I have and do proceed in their lives everyday. I love the thought that I can come here and find encouragement....Can you do some of the things you did in the beginning that helped....go back and remember how you have gotten past this before. I know this is silly but the people here have become my "can you hear me now" network...I pictured them with me and what they have told me when I had to face a very difficult situation the other day...Keep talking and know you can so this. God Bless your and your Family.

I thought this was funny if not insitefull, I do hair for a living and recently started talking to a couple clients about my silly anxious stuff and they have it too!! Who would of thaught and now we kind of laugh at it together. Not that it's always funny but I guess we all have to laugh at ourselves sometimes right?

Dear Stac, I think r.michelle had a tip in there that could help. Listen to your Stress stuff again, definitely the relaxation tape (maybe a couple of times a day, before yard duty, before the PTF meeting.) Could you be thinking that you are such a veteran of this training that you've moved beyond? If you listened again, you might find that it's still as effective as ever. Or you can go for the meds.