Does anybody else get bouts of anxiety and panic attacks from time to time.

Druenos
Druenos Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
in Mental health and wellbeing

For the past 2 to 3 years I've been having occasional bouts of panic attacks and anxiety. My doctor prescribed 50mg of Sertraline which I took for two years but I don't want to take it so every 6 months or so I try and lower my dose to 25mg but the anxiety keeps coming back. I hate the feeling and it makes me annoyed with myself hence always trying to lower my dose. Maybe I should just accept that I need it for the time being.

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,702 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Hi @Druenos I get bouts of anxiety and it can be terrible, so I can completely empathise. I'm also prescribed Sertraline and have found it helpful but it's different for us all. I've added below a few links for posts I've added because a lot of the tips I find really help me. Hopefully they're helpful to you too ๐Ÿ™‚

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  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 382 Empowering

    You are not alone, @Druenos Hang in there, I know the feeling of being annoyed for not allowing myself to have these emotions or dysregulations of my body, awful indeed.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,259 Championing

    Yes it's nearly two in the morning im laying here freezing gap in window won't shut properly i always think of homeless people my anxiety sky high it's such a curse suffering from anxiety i try to fight it sometimes i win but days like these are torturous lonely frightening and especially now the world is upside down

  • angelmariya
    angelmariya Online Community Member Posts: 14 Listener

    As al members said that you are not alone ,Itโ€™s frustrating when symptoms return after lowering medication. Maybe itโ€™s not about โ€œneeding it forever,โ€ just giving your mind the support it needs right now.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Posts: 544 Empowering

    Don't think there anyone who doesn't get anxiety, it's what keeps some of us ticking. Daily anxiety is normal and the odd panic, it just depends if you can handle it or let it take you over.

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