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[Inanna]

Hi everyone, I'm a 19 year old female from country Vic, Australia. I suffer with chronic anxiety and agoraphobia, as well as chronic depression. I don't know anybody else who has had experience with agoraphobia, or anxiety to the same extent as me. I'm in therapy, supposedly doing CBT although I've come to realise my psych is crap and am not going to see her anymore - she confuses me with other patients for one thing. I've started taking lexapro and I'm finding it to be pretty effective, I've never taken meds before. I've lost so much of my life to anxiety/depression, it's only now that recovery seems like a possibility. I look forward to contributing here.

So hi :D

[britk282]

Hey I am new as well.

I'm 20 and from the US.
I don't struggle from agoraphobia but I have the worst anxiety of anyone I know as well.
I have generalized anxiety and depression as well.
mainly I have found that I struggle more with anxiety when I'm off meds and more with depression when I'm on meds.

I actually took lexapro for a year.
it was the first med that I was put on... and it did make me feel tons better!
It helped so much with all the physical symptoms... mine are mainly racing heart, hard to breathe, knotted stomach, headaches, insomnia, can't eat.... a few others haha but anyways it did help with those but it made me feel depressed I felt numb and was Always tired... I seriously slept all day long!
I would take four hour naps in the afternoon and then go to bed at night and sleep 12 hours and then skip class in the morning because I was still so tired.

I am curious to see how you feel... let me know...
how long have you been on lexapro?
it also made me unable to have an orgasm (not to be overly personal or anything ) and had NO sex drive which isn't good when you have a boyfriend! ahhh

[dave1979]

hello,,,brit really sound like your depression is from the anxiety!! i'm no doctor but i was at first diagnosed with depression/anxiety and on every antidepresant there is.then i found a doctor that treated me for anxiety instead of depression and he definately hit the nail on the head because it worked.i had no depression and the anxiety subsided.Inanna,could you relate also?

[setler]

Hi Inanna, I am 19 years old too, living in the US. I suffer form mainly anxiety, but some depression as well. It can definitely be life crippling, so I hope your healing goes well! Don't be discouraged if Lexapro doesn't work; some people have to spend years trying to find the right medicine.

Best wishes

[britk282]

really?
dave I had actually been wondering that.
My doctor has been putting me on anti-depressants that are supposed to be for depression/anxiety and when it doesn't work he tries another SSRI. but I really think that maybe that is not what I need.
I really think that a medication strictly for anxiety would be better for me... but I'm trying to find a doctor right now that is more specialized instead of going to my general practitioner.