Motheroftwo
09-11-2012, 10:24 AM
Hi everyone, my name is Andrea, this is my first post, so I thought id start here. I am 26 years old, I am a licensed practical nurse, I have dealt with anxiety for about 10 years now, my first panic attack started out of the blue in the store when I was about 15 years old, I went to a psychiatrist, they diagnosed me with anxiety and panic disorder, they put me on Paxil, the anxiety subsided, I got off the medication, and was fine until I was about 22. My second round with anxiety started when I went to college for nursing when we started clinicals, and suddenly panic striked me again, it was so bad, I dreaded clinicals, I went back to my psychiatrist, he gave me paxil again, the anxiety subsided, until I was 26. The third round of anxiety started a few months ago when I switched jobs, during orientation I would panic and dreaded going to work for about a month. This last round of anxiety is a little different, it started with just having them at work to now all the time. I wake up with anxiety, I constantly have aweful thoughts in my head, I now always think the worse possible thing. My anxiety is so bad, I panic in the store, when driving (especially at stop lights), when alone, when excerising, all the time over nothing I panic and think the worse. I stopped doing things that would cause me to panic, and now im so limited in what I can do, I can feel depression setting in. I feel a lot better when I talk about things with people, but my anxiety has effecting many relationships, I now dont have many people to turn to, so I came here, to get to know people who can relate to what im going through. Thanks for reading.