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aquamarinearies
06-08-2012, 03:19 PM
When I first got the symptoms of derealization I Didn't realize I blew it completely out of proportion when I felt this symptom of weirdness. It happened last December when I went to Hawaii. I didn't sleep the night before, it was my first plane ride, first time being 3000 miles away from home. I've never had such a full blown anxiety attack in my life. Just because I couldnt believe I was actually in Hawaii and I dreamed of it ever since I was little..I literally scare myself into thinking I was in a dream. I felt it a little the next day, but it eventually subsided when I got home. I forgot about it. Until two months later on one damn day when I wanted to know why I felt like that. I freaked myself out, started feeling it again. Looked it up, found the cause, it makes sense and all but ever since then I still feel slightly weird. I'm afraid of it happening again quite honestly all the time I've learned to calm down and know its just sensitive nerves but it's easier said then done. It's consuming my life, I have an over thinking mind about literally everything now.. it's almost an obsession. Does anybody have any suggestions, stories, experiences?

alankay
06-08-2012, 06:53 PM
You're right. It is an obsession. Anxiety is just that in may respects and that is why a ssri med is recommended. To help reduce the repetitive thought patterns that ruminations are at the heart of it all. The mulling over things and reiterating things. It leads to the overall thought pattern the leads in anxiety and OCD. No that it always winds up as a disorder but I'd ask my doc about all this and an ssri med trial to see if and how you benefit. Alankay

aquamarinearies
06-08-2012, 08:34 PM
Thank you, well I was on citalopram and unfortunately I'm not the one for medication and it didn't work... What is helping is cognitive therapy and helping change my thought pattern