I just want to feel like me again

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I started with what anxiety attacks this past fall. I get these pains in my chest or my head starts to feels "weird" and I find myself looking at compete strangers or even people I know and thinking "lucky you, you dont feel the way I do" I miss feeling like me. Im scared to try the ativan my doc prescribed me..any suggestions on how to start feeling like myself again:(
 
I know exactly how you feel. I have lived like that for the last 3 years. It seems sometimes that im the only person on earth that feels this way with the pains and weird feelings going on but there are a lot of us that suffer from this everyday. I was also given ativan to take to help...i took it for a couple years and just quit taking it in January. I decided i was going to get better without medicine and i have bee doing much better. I was scared to try the ativan to but i think it helped me through the rough times, give it a try. I started off taking half of what they prescribed for me and worked my way up to the full dosage. I know many people have problems and get addicted to this medicine but i got lucky and had no problems and no withdrawl symtoms when i stopped it. Good luck!!!
 
hello! ive just read your message and you sound like i did a year ago! i know exactly what your going through and it does seem like the worst thing ever but you know what?, its not forever! i completely sympathise with you but im on medication for mine still now after 6 years! but it helps so i dont care. the only thing that got me over my severe anxiety and panic attacks (not sure if you get those?) was hypnotherapy. i tryed many different things, but that was the only thing that helped me be anxiety free. also theres a great book called "at last a life, anxiety and panic free" by paul david , its so good! you should check it out!
hope you feel better soon! xx
 
thank you both for your advice and such I really appreciate it. It's nice knowing you are not alone and that there is an end in sight
 
I was like that after a major car accident i shattered 2 vertebrae in my neck and told i should have been dead or a quad, but ran a marathon 2 years later also i had a total memory loss of life before accident. What i did was looked at life as we know it.

What i can say is be yourself dont listen to others for advice to much as depending on others can become a job in itself. Take time to smell the roses, get a massage from a qualified therpaist who does remedial massage with myofacial release. It is an experience which will help clear your thoughts. I also took up tai chi and chi gunn.
They help clear the mind and go to a different level of life.
Take time out to smile at someone anyone each day, find a funny movie and watch it, give a friend a hug and smile, take a 5 minute walk daily. Go to a lake and feed the ducks.
But hey there are thousanRAB of poeple out there like yourself and dont look to hard for answers as to many questions cause stress on what to say how to say it and when
Make a plan that one day a week you will do something that makes you smile if you cant think of anything then laugh at how silly it is.
Hope this helps. Keep smiling and be happy,
 
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