topic Anxiety/Depression Relapse in Anxiety

Anxiety/Depression Relapse

Arielle — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:14:56 GMT

I had my anxiety/depression 10yrs ago, I had m full recovery, after 4years i had my relapse and had full recovery again. It's been a long time i never experienced this unpleasant feeling but because of this Convid19 problem my anxiety cameback again. Feeling of unsettled, nervousness, shortness of breath, numbness. I hate this feelings.
From my experience, it help me if i talked to someone had been there before and they became ok and back to normal. I think this strategies boost my self that there still hope after all of this. We can still live a normal and happy life. Is anyone had multiple relapse then recover again and again?. Thanks.

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jess334 — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 09:57:29 GMT

Hi Arielle,

Yes!

I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression at 15. I'm 32 now and have had multiple relapses.

I prefer to think of it as a giant yoyo / rollercoaster. I might go down for a while, but I know eventually Ill head upwards again.

The covid19 thing has really stressed me out too. And it frustrates me because I was finally starting to get out of a slump and look toward the future. Only to realise the future will probably be completely different and mostly out of my control.

Its great that you have strategies that help you. Lots of us are going through it tough right now. Hopefully being here on the forums helps.

Jess

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therising — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:14:38 GMT

Hi Arielle

All this business at the moment is definitely challenging. There are a lot of factors involved which can be stress inducing. When you hear leaders and health professionals understandably say 'We need to be vigilant', repeating this over and over again, and you also have people losing their minds hording stuff from supermarkets (like folk from those doomsday prepper shows), it really starts to test your sense of reality and your nervous system. Don't get me started on the media, grrr!

Personally, I battled with depression for many years in the past. I always felt so incredibly sad when I'd feel I was facing it again, until I realised what was happening. I hope this helps:

Most of us start life on a high, if we're truly lucky and there is no significant childhood trauma or illness. The high involves us being our most natural self - you know that non discriminating, genuinely loving highly adventurous and naturally excited little carefree creature, always curiously asking 'Why?!' Then we begin to come out of being our most natural self, based on a lot of highly questionable belief systems placed in our head by others.

There will be many higher states/levels of consciousness. We graduate through them, typically by letting go of learned destructive belief systems adopted throughout our life. There will be things that really come to test or challenge us before we graduate out of old ways into new levels of understanding, on our way to returning to our most natural self. Each new challenge takes us higher. Bit like a video game. If feelings of depression or anxiety creep back into our life, you can bet the graduation challenge is a big one. We don't graduate to higher consciousness through the little things. With life lessons come significant exams. I like to examine/question myself through the following: 'What is the challenge I'm being asked to rise to now?' For yourself, perhaps the challenge is to de-stress in a time of distress. How many ways can you think of to naturally de-stress? I imagine you've already learned some techniques. Is it possible to reform your life to include many of them on a daily basis? Myself, I'm a natural daydreamer and can enter this zone at the drop of a hat. It's a blessing at times 🙂

Keep in mind, the anxiety may not be yours. What you could be picking up on is the stress from others. It pays to distance our self from people who inject us with stress, even if it just gives us a little room to breath.

Take care

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blondguy — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:42:27 GMT

Hello Arielle

Thankyou for speaking from the heart...Jess334 and 'therising' have provided solid support above

you are definitely not on your own with relapsing...I was diagnosed with anxiety in 1983 and it yes its awful to have a relapse...Jess334 mentioned that its like a roller coaster ride and she is spot on....Sometimes we can be effected by various events in our lives and especially this shitty coronavirus....It is also giving me some pain and anguish even though I am well equipped to deal with major life events

This is hard work yet a temporary period in our lives

we are here and happy to listen Arielle 🙂

my kind thoughts

Paul

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Arielle — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:13:42 GMT

Hi,

Last night, (oopps , morning already), I cant sleep, I don't have anyone to talk to. First time I call the beyond blue at around 3am. It help me settling down, around 4am I fall aslept but I have to wake up 6am. I keep telling to my self this will be temporarily, it will not last forever. Haizz I struggling right now.

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Arielle — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:20:14 GMT

My life continues with stress or problem sometimes but I never experience this unpleasant feelings until this corona virus came. I don't want to feel this way, thats why probably I more frustrated to back to my old self.

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jess334 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:57:29 GMT

Hi Arielle,

Good on you for calling Beyond Blue. I'm so glad that talking to them helped you get to sleep.

My anxiety always feels so much worse when I dont sleep.

I feel like each 'down phase' of our life is different to the last. The last time I felt really bad, I managed it with counselling and support. This time I needed to go on medication. At first I felt like a failure because I thought if I could go without meds last time why can't I do it this time?! It took me almost 12 months to accept that I needed more help, but I am so glad I did.

Hope you sleep better tonight.