Anxiety suddenly worse than ever

[just_let_go]

Me again!

Starting around Sunday, my symptoms have worsened.. Right now it feels like someone is pressing down on my temples and I feel extremely uneasy. Last week for about 2 - 3 days I felt like my old self again, and I thought It may have been over! It's like this week my anxiety has just said, "Don't kid yourself, I'm still here, and watch this, I can make you feel worse than ever!"

I am having huge troubles sleeping. I have this uneasy anxious feeling that goes on all night. Then I wake up ever more anxious than before which perfectly describes today. It's at the point where I dread going to bed. Whenever I start to feel like I'm starting to get on top of this I just get thrown back another 2 steps. And when I'm not anxious I'm depressed.

Yesterday I got a referral to a psychiatrist to talk about medication. I've tried beating this without it but it's clearly not working. The more I read about medication the more I'm unsure about it. People talk about things like becoming chemically dependent, or missing one pill makes your depression and anxiety twice as bad. I can't even imaging how bad that is. 

I suppose I'm just tired of trying so hard to overcome all this and just getting defeated every time. The fact that I'm feeling worse than ever right now just proves I've gone no where. I'm really hoping medication helps. If I don't get a good night sleep soon I might lose my mind! 

[Jessie394]

Hi hi_im_ty,

I just want to say thank you for creating this thread! It seems like you and I suffer from very similar anxieties, and at a similar age, too. I'm 23 and also have trouble sleeping at night (it's currently 1am). I also experience major anxiety the night and mornings before I have to go to work. It's exhausting and rather debilitating.

I'm trying to keep positive, though.

In regards to your worries about taking medication; I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression when I was 15. My doctor is wonderful and couldnt be more helpful. He referred me to a psychologist and between them the conferred regularly and decided that a mixture of both cognitive therapy and medication would work best for me. I was always on a low dose of ADs and I eventually came off of them with no trouble at all! It was very similar to being weaned off of something. My doctor just kept prescribing me smaller doses in stages until we both agreed that I didn't need them any more.

Sadly this isn't the case now as I had rather a bad set back a couple of years ago. Due to an accident I was diagnosed with PTSD. I have good days and bad days, but now I'm finding that most of them are bad.

I have an appointment for later this week to talk to my GP about going back on the ADs and I don't have any apprehensions about taking them. The way he explained it to me is that I have a chemical imbalance in my brain which makes me feel things more intensely than other people.

I hope I'm providing some reassurance rather than stress! I'd love to hear how you went at your psychiatrist appointment, too!

keep up the good work! Your doing remarkably!

J x