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off balance feeling

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:12 pm
by Tebori
Ok so I have had issues with anxiety wince my teenage days, I am now 35 and although I have made it better I have recently been experiencing a continued feeling of being off balance...like a rocking boat or something. Does anyone else have this and know what causes it? It even effects me while I am sitting drawing or painting which I do for a living.. I have been to the doctor many times for a lot of things lol And i have felt more anxious lately as the past two years have been very stressful because of a divorce and 1 year and a half of a legal battle to keep my daughter in the same state. So now after two years everything is resolved however I still find myself anxious and I am not sure why....2 years of bad habit acquired maybe? Can anyone help? I exercise and eat very healthy and take vitamin and mineral supplements...this started about two weeks ago!

Re: off balance feeling

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:15 pm
by Tebori
I should also add that this is pretty much an all day feeling

Re: off balance feeling

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:00 am
by Iwillbebetter
I can't say that it's an all day feeling for my, but I have felt this way often. For me, I have decided it's anxiety. Does it start from the moment you wake up? If so maybe during your dreams are building up your anxieties as you sleep?? If it starts after you awake, I would ask what you are thinking before it starts? A lot of time its your thoughts and feelings that lead you into the anxious feelings....

Re: off balance feeling

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:01 pm
by Livmarie9
I just recently have experienced this. I have always had anxiety. I got the program when I was 16 got to session 6 and didn't finish because I felt better. I got through college, several jobs, and I'd like to think I did good and my anxiety didn't hold me back. Just until I recently moved out of my parents house, and with my boyfriend I have had extreme anxiety, that I think turned into depression. When I first moved in that's what I first noticed with my anxiety was a unbalanced feeling, like I was dizzy or gonna pass out when I knew I wasn't. At times it felt like I was falling through the floor. It really scared me. Then I started having panic attacks, they were awful. I went to the doctor and a new doc at that, and he prescribed me celexa which he gave me to high of a dose, and it made me feel to different I just freaked out. I actually had a reaction to it when I went to my original doctor. He gave me zoloft and started me off slow. Im starting to feel better. The unbalanced feeling went away. I have a lot of different feeling because the anxiety and zoloft I hope doing it's job. But Ive been working on the cds and work book again. But I have noticed that I pick out the sessions I feel i need to work on. The first 4 I start of course, but then I skipped to session 10 because I have a lot of obsessive scary thoughts, and just listening to that helped me. So I know I will work through the whole program this time i just need to do what works for me.