AnxietyAlly
11-03-2013, 02:55 PM
By the time anyone sees this I assume her attack and feelings will be over (I hope at least), but just looking for tips here. She doesn't have a good coping method for dealing with this it seems.
She visited me this weekend and drank too much last night and didn't get enough sleep. She's identified these in the past as things that cause her anxiety. But not until today did she tell me again that she had figured that out. She has been better at managing this on her own, but not amazing (she's 22 in college).
She started having symptoms at noon eastern. It's now 4:45. I got her to sleep around 2 pm. She's woken up a few times and freaked out a little but then back to sleep.
She was/is vomitting, a lot. I've tried to keep her breathing normally when I can. While she is sleeping she is def. having some weird dreams. Most sound harmless, but who knows. A few times she's hearing things that aren't there (like me talking to her). I think this is a combo of the anxiety med (she takes it through the butt) and the sleeping pills (both prescribed by the psychiatrist).
In the past, she has had these and they have sometimes taken days of recovery. This apparently happened last week and with her newly prescribed meds that a psychiatrist gave her, it was over by the morning (she was just groggy, but not having any attacks).
So, just looking for tips. Should I be talking to her about random stuff to keep her mind off of this? She can't keep any water or food down, unfortunately.
1. how can I stop the vomiting (lately it seems a dream ends badly and she starts breathing heavy and then needs to vomit).
2. i dont want to wake her up from the dreams but if they end in horror that seems like a never ending cycle. She is talking out loud at times, but I dont want to respond and startle her. Which happened before.
3. what do I say? I'm following some stuff I've read (dont say calm down, dont say it's ok or all in your head, say you're here for her, etc.)
4. These attacks just seem to last too long. I hear people with a few minutes, even a few hours. But not into the next day. She's boarding a plane back home tomorrow morning. I'm prepared to reschedule her flight if need be. But I want to do whatever I can to get her feeling normal by the end of today -ideally.
5. she has a bad relationship with her parents, and "wants her mom" but her mom isn't great at dealing with this at all. While having the attack she often says she wants her mom, is looking for her mom, doesn't know where her mom is, etc. This conflict of wanting her mom but also thinking/knowing her mom is making it worse is a bad one. I don't know what to say to get through this wall/catch 22 of needing and wanting her but knowing she isn't good for her. Most of these dreams do seem to be flashbacks to former conversations with her mom. The dreams are far better than the attacks where this conflict gets played out in a much scarier and serious way.
She visited me this weekend and drank too much last night and didn't get enough sleep. She's identified these in the past as things that cause her anxiety. But not until today did she tell me again that she had figured that out. She has been better at managing this on her own, but not amazing (she's 22 in college).
She started having symptoms at noon eastern. It's now 4:45. I got her to sleep around 2 pm. She's woken up a few times and freaked out a little but then back to sleep.
She was/is vomitting, a lot. I've tried to keep her breathing normally when I can. While she is sleeping she is def. having some weird dreams. Most sound harmless, but who knows. A few times she's hearing things that aren't there (like me talking to her). I think this is a combo of the anxiety med (she takes it through the butt) and the sleeping pills (both prescribed by the psychiatrist).
In the past, she has had these and they have sometimes taken days of recovery. This apparently happened last week and with her newly prescribed meds that a psychiatrist gave her, it was over by the morning (she was just groggy, but not having any attacks).
So, just looking for tips. Should I be talking to her about random stuff to keep her mind off of this? She can't keep any water or food down, unfortunately.
1. how can I stop the vomiting (lately it seems a dream ends badly and she starts breathing heavy and then needs to vomit).
2. i dont want to wake her up from the dreams but if they end in horror that seems like a never ending cycle. She is talking out loud at times, but I dont want to respond and startle her. Which happened before.
3. what do I say? I'm following some stuff I've read (dont say calm down, dont say it's ok or all in your head, say you're here for her, etc.)
4. These attacks just seem to last too long. I hear people with a few minutes, even a few hours. But not into the next day. She's boarding a plane back home tomorrow morning. I'm prepared to reschedule her flight if need be. But I want to do whatever I can to get her feeling normal by the end of today -ideally.
5. she has a bad relationship with her parents, and "wants her mom" but her mom isn't great at dealing with this at all. While having the attack she often says she wants her mom, is looking for her mom, doesn't know where her mom is, etc. This conflict of wanting her mom but also thinking/knowing her mom is making it worse is a bad one. I don't know what to say to get through this wall/catch 22 of needing and wanting her but knowing she isn't good for her. Most of these dreams do seem to be flashbacks to former conversations with her mom. The dreams are far better than the attacks where this conflict gets played out in a much scarier and serious way.