LocaMelmo
01-30-2012, 12:47 PM
Hey everyone,
I'm very new to all this and looking for help with some coping strategies, to see how other people are dealing with their anxiety.
In a nutshell, (excuse the pun, it would seem that I haven't had total sense of humor failure yet!) I have had a really rough month. My Mum underwent major surgery and nearly died, my partners father died of brain cancer after a long hard slog on tuesday last week, and my best friend is going through a pretty messy divorce. So I've been trying so hard to look after them I forgot to take care of myself. I was struggling with my feelings anyway as I was diagnosed as having "unexplained infertility" in September last year.... It's taken a lot to get my head round.
Over the past month I have been finding it increasingly hard to relax, not sleeping because I can't stop my brain from worrying, not eating because I feel like I have a big ball of elastic bands in my stomach and a tennis ball in my throat. On top of this I work a 50 hour week as a manager in a very busy customer service department.... Although work now feels like the one place I still have control.
On Friday last week I woke in the early hours.... Nothing unusual, but I felt like I was suffocating. It got gradually worse until my partner called the paramedics as I am asthmatic and we thought I was having an asthma attack. When they arrived they told me after a lot of prodding and poking I was having an anxiety attack. Since Friday I have had another 6 attacks. Including one when I arrived at work this morning. My boss took me straight to my GP who is literally round the corner. She has told me I am having an acute anxiety episode, has signed me off for a week and prescribed me 5mg diazepam 3 times a day and go back in a week.
What I really want from this forum is to meet people who have got over something like this and how, and more importantly how they coped whilst it was happening. Especially during an attack.... Is there anything I can do to shorten them? Are there triggers? Etc etc...
Thanks for reading
Mel
I'm very new to all this and looking for help with some coping strategies, to see how other people are dealing with their anxiety.
In a nutshell, (excuse the pun, it would seem that I haven't had total sense of humor failure yet!) I have had a really rough month. My Mum underwent major surgery and nearly died, my partners father died of brain cancer after a long hard slog on tuesday last week, and my best friend is going through a pretty messy divorce. So I've been trying so hard to look after them I forgot to take care of myself. I was struggling with my feelings anyway as I was diagnosed as having "unexplained infertility" in September last year.... It's taken a lot to get my head round.
Over the past month I have been finding it increasingly hard to relax, not sleeping because I can't stop my brain from worrying, not eating because I feel like I have a big ball of elastic bands in my stomach and a tennis ball in my throat. On top of this I work a 50 hour week as a manager in a very busy customer service department.... Although work now feels like the one place I still have control.
On Friday last week I woke in the early hours.... Nothing unusual, but I felt like I was suffocating. It got gradually worse until my partner called the paramedics as I am asthmatic and we thought I was having an asthma attack. When they arrived they told me after a lot of prodding and poking I was having an anxiety attack. Since Friday I have had another 6 attacks. Including one when I arrived at work this morning. My boss took me straight to my GP who is literally round the corner. She has told me I am having an acute anxiety episode, has signed me off for a week and prescribed me 5mg diazepam 3 times a day and go back in a week.
What I really want from this forum is to meet people who have got over something like this and how, and more importantly how they coped whilst it was happening. Especially during an attack.... Is there anything I can do to shorten them? Are there triggers? Etc etc...
Thanks for reading
Mel