Levi
04-10-2009, 01:33 PM
hello everyone,
im 23 years old and i have been recently suffering from anxiety attack episodes for about 3 years up to date. I have dealt with this before once when i was in high school but managed to get through it with out medication. Im currently a student in college and am about to graduate in about a year or so. i recently started getting attacks that were quite severer, so much so that if i got them while driving i had to pull over and call someone to come for me. I have recently got them at school and often missed class. I felt so alone when i got these attacks, i felt no one understood what i was going through. I often times felt like i wanted to scream for help and felt like overwhelming fear was overtaking me. It has been unfortunate that i have gone through this while in school because it has taken a tole on my studies and ive found it hard to focus and because of this i will probably have to take incompletes for some of my classes. But fortunatly i recently got help. I finaly went to the doctor to see what they could do for me. They have put me on citalopram 20mg which is generic for celexa and is a type of an anti deppresant. I have been told that this drug takes about 4-6 weeks for it gain full potential. To manage my attacks meanwhile i take Lorazepam (which is in the same class of valem i think) 0.5mg as needed. I just have to say that i have done much better, although the first week on medication was rough, but after the first week it has done wonders. I have used the anti depresant for 3 and a half weeks. And my anxiety attacks have decreases significantly. I found that i dont need lorazepam any more( i try not to take it cuz it leaves me feeling out of it and tired). My hope is to get off of everything and learn to over come my fears, doubts and control my mind instead of it controling me. I found that often times my mind played tricks on me which often lead to anxiety attacks and that one of the things that counteracted that was my faith. I was also very reluctant to take any medication because i wanted to conquer this my self and when i was prescribed an anti depressent i was like "WHAT?!... im not depresed!" but i have learned that anti depressants also treat anxiety.I have had highs and lows and often felt like i was not going to win this battle. Im still in the process of recovering but i know now that anxiety is something that is conquerable mentally and through medicine (if need be) and am convinced that anybody suffering from anxiety can overcome it. And that the first step to doing so is not to run away and fear it, but to confront it and take a stand. I just wanted to share this with you all and introduce myself. Sorry for this being so long. :)
im 23 years old and i have been recently suffering from anxiety attack episodes for about 3 years up to date. I have dealt with this before once when i was in high school but managed to get through it with out medication. Im currently a student in college and am about to graduate in about a year or so. i recently started getting attacks that were quite severer, so much so that if i got them while driving i had to pull over and call someone to come for me. I have recently got them at school and often missed class. I felt so alone when i got these attacks, i felt no one understood what i was going through. I often times felt like i wanted to scream for help and felt like overwhelming fear was overtaking me. It has been unfortunate that i have gone through this while in school because it has taken a tole on my studies and ive found it hard to focus and because of this i will probably have to take incompletes for some of my classes. But fortunatly i recently got help. I finaly went to the doctor to see what they could do for me. They have put me on citalopram 20mg which is generic for celexa and is a type of an anti deppresant. I have been told that this drug takes about 4-6 weeks for it gain full potential. To manage my attacks meanwhile i take Lorazepam (which is in the same class of valem i think) 0.5mg as needed. I just have to say that i have done much better, although the first week on medication was rough, but after the first week it has done wonders. I have used the anti depresant for 3 and a half weeks. And my anxiety attacks have decreases significantly. I found that i dont need lorazepam any more( i try not to take it cuz it leaves me feeling out of it and tired). My hope is to get off of everything and learn to over come my fears, doubts and control my mind instead of it controling me. I found that often times my mind played tricks on me which often lead to anxiety attacks and that one of the things that counteracted that was my faith. I was also very reluctant to take any medication because i wanted to conquer this my self and when i was prescribed an anti depressent i was like "WHAT?!... im not depresed!" but i have learned that anti depressants also treat anxiety.I have had highs and lows and often felt like i was not going to win this battle. Im still in the process of recovering but i know now that anxiety is something that is conquerable mentally and through medicine (if need be) and am convinced that anybody suffering from anxiety can overcome it. And that the first step to doing so is not to run away and fear it, but to confront it and take a stand. I just wanted to share this with you all and introduce myself. Sorry for this being so long. :)