panic attack?

Oh, yeah, I know the 'zombie feeling'
big part of why I went off of it.

I'd rather feel bad than nothing at all.

 

hey they are selling those antidepresants now as anti-premature ejaculation pills if yo uwant to look on the bright side; I found them to be too much work to get off with...but I've always tried to accomodate my attacks : bathroom stalls, behind dumpsters, under bridges, any place private and enclosed. Now I stay home alone all the time but I'm alive and not on meds.

 

Yes, but alpha, that's not healthy to accomodate your attacks that way.
You CAN get over them, and get through them.... WITHOUT meds.

I hope someday you can, too... because they aren't permanent if you handle them correctly.

I'm trying not to jump the gun and assume things, but are you suggesting that you are suffering from agoraphobia?

I just want you to know, this is all very treatable, and if you'd try it out, you could be out living your life, healthy and happy...

PM me if you need anything, please. *hugs*

 

Thanks,
I ride my bike out to get groceries and walk my dog a few times a day, so I'm not housebound entirely:sunglasse :sunglasse

10 years ago I was living on a sailboat; I decided I could overcome my problems and sold the boat, got my ged, moved to Boulder CO and got a job, into college, into treatment, apt, girlfriend, the works. did that until a few years ago (9-11) and I started getting bad tremors from the meds and just couldn't function outside anymore so I bought a van and tried living in the desert in S. Cali but that only made things worse; ended up living in my moms driveway for the next few years reading sci fi and now am pretty content to just be indoors.

So I have made the effort, but it's a catch 22, to be out and about I need meds but cannot take meds because they make me sick. This is why there are sooo many mentally ill people on the street.

I am looking for someplace I can buy and own. I've got some money saved already.

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sorry i have been away-my pc went a bit wrong

thanks for all of your comments-much appreciated

i saw my doctor this week and mentioned that i was worse not better-suggested to carry on taking medication and to come back in another couple of weeks

i mentioned that i tend to feel okay in the morning and as the day goes on, i feel totally unhinged during the evening, then feel better later on

dave

 

Believe me folks, I understand that everything in our 'intuition' tells us that we should modify our life and space to 'avoid' having more panic attacks.
but,
The most mind-boggling thing you can discover is that accomodating panic attacks is the very same thing that actually fuels them and keeps them alive at all.
The more you accomodate them... the worse they get (or maintain as is)

Granted, its a process and steps by steps process to go the other direction.
It wont happen perfectly or always quickly,
but,
the less and less you accomodate them the more more and more power you will have over them.
Start small sure.. but start the opposite way and you absolutely will start seeing progress.
Even tiny rippling increments.. but they will lose their power.