Generalized Anxiety Disorder makes me think too much.
Right now I am obsessing about something that is bothering me. I just can’t shut off my brain. I just can’t stop thinking about this particular issue, which is something involving my family that I have absolutely no control over. Yet my overactive brain refuses to let go of this. My mind continues to torture me mercilessly by making me think and rethink and worry and dwell on this issue. What a waste of time and energy. What a shame. Here I am, completely aware of what my brain is doing to me, and yet unable to get a grip …
There is no cure for generalized anxiety disorder.
I came across a website that flaunts a cure for GAD. There is no such thing as a cure for a chronic illness. Like diabetes, for example, generalized anxiety disorder is a disease that can be controlled using the proper medication and/or therapy. Do not be seduced into thinking that you can go off your anti-anxiety medication just because you feel good. Anxiety disorder does not go away with time.
There is an annoying radio commercial that has a woman with a silky voice cooing about the symptoms of anxiety and saying that you should not have to take a pill …
Antibiotics can throw off my balance of anti-anxiety & anti-depressant medications
I am getting over a sinus infection that was overlapped with the flu. So that is about 3 weeks all told that I have been taking either an antibiotic and/or Tamiflu. And today I am feeling really cranky and sad. My anxiety and depression are getting the upper hand.
I have had similar experiences of feeling like crap after having other upper respiratory illnesses. My psychiatrist has always reminded me that the physical illness plus the medication taken for it can upset the balance of mood, calm, attitude, that I have achieved by taking Paxil and Neurontin. So, while I know in …
Physical illness due to anxiety disorder
When my son was hospitalized with Crohn’s Disease at age 19, I felt like the world was going to end. I am not exaggerating. My level of concern was off the wall. I was not yet seeing a psychiatrist for my anxiety (Read the post “The results of my visit to the psychiatrist“), nor taking my Paxil or Neurontin. Since the day my children were born, I lived in dread that something would happen to them (Read the post “Becoming a mother made my anxiety worse, or was it vice versa?”). This was like a horrible self fulfilled …
When anxiety clouds my head
While I was taking my shower this morning, I was thinking about the fact that I am missing my therapy appointment this week since my therapist will be away. I feel fine about that since right now I have no outstanding issues that I feel frantic about. Then I began to think about that franticness, and how it affects my thinking.
When I am worried (as in becoming panicky) about something, it can be hard to have an appropriate reaction to that “thing”. Appropriate is a loose term, I know, but I think you realize that I mean a “not off the …
If anxiety strikes, I can now fight back.
As a person with generalized anxiety disorder, I am realizing that I will never be completely immune to overreacting to situations by becoming unbearably anxious. Scary as that is, I am also becoming aware of the fact the anxiety, when it strikes, will be more controllable.
With the help of my anti-anxiety/anti-depressant medications (Paxil and Neurontin), when, and if, I slip and find myself flipping out, I manage to grab hold before it pushes me over the edge.
Everything must be looked at in terms of degree. There is never going to be a CURE for generalized anxiety disorder. But the fact that there …
My Daughter Got Help for her Anxiety.
Once Beth was willing to admit that her anxiety was interfering with her life in a major way, she visited a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac. Beth used Prozac for about 5 years and it raised her into a new reality. She became productive in her work (home computer business) and her social life improved. She was not so needy and did not obsess about every little thing that went wrong in her daily life. For the first time in her life, Beth was finally able to achieve a level of calm and contentedness that she never knew before.
However, as the …