Stress Center Peer Support

Hi, I just got my CDs last week and am already on Lesson 4 because I am fighting to get well and get off my antidepressant. I feel guilty and angry for taking it, since I am nursing a baby. But, if I don't take it I get panicked and stop eating, and dwell on any ache or pain in my body as cancer. Even with the meds I wake up feeling jittery and scared. I made an appointment with an MD who practices natural medicine, but it isn't until the 20th, to discuss my depression/anxiety/horrible IBS/reflux. My worst fear is that my anxiety is destroying my body and that my health will spiral because of what I am doing to myself . . . and then I will die and leave my kids and husband. I was liking the program until I got to lesson 4 where I have to "expect less." I have always been known as an over-achiever, and I feel like expecting less just makes me lazy and slothful . . . and that I'll never achieve anything again. Any thoughts?

We all go thru bad days. Just think positively about tomorrow. You are doing something, you are going thru the program and with you being known as an over achiever i'm sure you are going to achieve all your goals. It's just a bad day. Hold your head high and find all the wonderful things tomorrow will bring.