Re: stress and how we handle it

[Guest guest]

Yes. It seems lately anything that breaks my routine causes anxiety. It is

rediculous. But I can hardly imagine going and doing anything anymore. I drive

to work everyday so that does not bother me. But if I get out to do anything

different I don't want to drive. I want my husband to take me. I just almost

am understanding phobias of leaving home. I go to the beauty supply store

sometimes and it is almost anxiety producing. I hate the traffic and I hate

being out anywhere by myself. I don't understand it. I did not use to be this

way.

I certainly understand your anxiety with a seizure disorder. That would be

scary to most anyone. Are the seizures pretty much under control?

Well, my heart is with you.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

toddvikkd wrote:

I have a problem with I think panic attacts. If I go to a party or

work

with my hubby who is not nice to work with. I shut down its wierd I

feel imbarrssed. I take a 1/2 valium before, but I wish I would not do

this. My hubby has to hep me leave, I am out going, but do to my

sickness and seisures I got home bound and imbarressed having siesures

and being sick. Now latley I have, been somwhat better with lyrica, my

being scred has not gone away, anyone else have these panic problems?

well just a problem that pagues me.

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[Guest guest]

I've always had panic problems. It used to be a lot worse and they

seemed to happen more in large crowds and movie theaters. I am a little

claustrophobic so that may be why. I've started getting 'angry' at

them, if that is the right term. Like one time we went to see the third

Lord of the Rings movie, and as the movie started I was hit by a panic

attack. I went to the bathroom to take some breaths, and then went back

and forced myself to stay and enjoy the movie. I did meditation,

breathing, and just a hard fight to keep the panic down during the whole

movie. I wanted hubby to at least enjoy it, but I felt like I missed

the whole movie and we ended up seeing it again a few weeks later.

So last summer we went to see Pirates-3 and just as the lights dimmed I

felt suddenly like " I cannot BREATHE in here! " and my heart started to

race. Then I said to myself " No, darnit! I'm going to STAY and I'm

going to ENJOY this movie! " and I don't know what I did or how, but it

seemed to work.

Recently we went to see Cloverfield but the theater smelled like vomit

because of people seeing it and getting motion sickness. I'm a bit

phobic about stuff like that, and told hubby as we walked in and smelled

that smell that 'I'm going to have a panic attack!' I tried to fight

it, but it won this time. I told him just as the movie started that " I

just can't do this! " and we left, got a refund and were kind of glad. I

read so many articles about people getting motion sick from that movie,

I'm kind of glad we decided not to. I just felt so guilty and like I

ruined a fun day for hubby. He said the smell was getting to him too,

and he didn't want to stay anyway.

Anyhow I've tried meds before but my body doesn't tolerate mood meds

very well at all. The doc encouraged exercise, so a year and a half ago

I started on a floor stretching routine, then added some yoga, then

gradually added some walking inside my house, then that turned into a

jog etc. I told the doc later that my anxiety went way down after I

started to work out, he said that our bodies release those endorphins

and it diminishes a lot of things like that. I never knew.

Anyhow yes I deal with panic sometimes. I hate it and wish I would

never have a panic attack ever again.

Melody

toddvikkd wrote:

> I have a problem with I think panic attacts. If I go to a party or work

> with my hubby who is not nice to work with. I shut down its wierd I

> feel imbarrssed. I take a 1/2 valium before, but I wish I would not do

> this. My hubby has to hep me leave, I am out going, but do to my

> sickness and seisures I got home bound and imbarressed having siesures

> and being sick. Now latley I have, been somwhat better with lyrica, my

> being scred has not gone away, anyone else have these panic problems?

> well just a problem that pagues me.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Well now I'm really frustrated. I was almost finished writing but I hit the

devil key somehow and it all disappeared. Maybe it wasn't a good post and I

wasn't supposed to send it, but I will try again.

I stay at home most of the time. I'm not agoraphobic, because I will leave my

house to go most anywhere as long as someone is driving me there. And I'm not

afraid of driving, just afraid of driving anywhere by myself. I don't even

leave the house to get my mail, but about twice a week, but I'm not afraid to I

just don't want to. It's too much trouble.

I need to go to several places that are no more than 15 min away from my

house, but I keep putting it off. When I finally have to go out I go there and

come right home. I generally don't do more than one place a trip, so that makes

me put things off even more. I wanted to leave yesterday to mail a Valentine

package, but I didn't.

For me I think it is a combination of not feeling good, not wanting to go to

the trouble, and the fear that I will have the fibro wall come down hard on my

brain with it's exhausting fatigue and its destruction of my decision making

powers and I won't be able to get home. The last one really affects my not

going to a mall or shopping in a store that's out of my little town.

I've also gotten anxious in large stores, particularly if there are a lot of

people there. I've gotten to be uncomfortable at large gatherings. I've never

been the life of the party, but I didn't have this fear of talking to people and

not knowing what to say. I guess that has come with not talking to people very

much.

This stuff with the driving places and being too tired or foggy to drive home

has actually happened so it's not an irrational fear. It happened twice at a

mall that is 40 min away and on the other side of the city so I have to go

through it on the highway, I had to sit somewhere and wait for it to pass,

which took ages, and then drive home. I used to drive to my daughter's house for

dinner every Tuesday night, but she lives 40 min away and now I don't know if I

will be able to drive back or not so I don't go. I would do it anyway if she

had a bigger house so I could just stay over if I couldn't get home, but since I

can't I'm afraid of not being able to go home after dinner. It is a long ways

to drive just for dinner anyway, but I would get to see the boys more

Anyway, I will stop rambling on, and just say that I understand how you feel

and wish we didn't feel that way. It is really putting a damper on our lives.

Love ya,

Marti

debra van ness wrote:

Yes. It seems lately anything that breaks my routine causes anxiety.

It is rediculous. But I can hardly imagine going and doing anything anymore. I

drive to work everyday so that does not bother me. But if I get out to do

anything different I don't want to drive. I want my husband to take me. I just

almost am understanding phobias of leaving home. I go to the beauty supply store

sometimes and it is almost anxiety producing. I hate the traffic and I hate

being out anywhere by myself. I don't understand it. I did not use to be this

way.

I certainly understand your anxiety with a seizure disorder. That would be scary

to most anyone. Are the seizures pretty much under control?

Well, my heart is with you.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

toddvikkd wrote:

I have a problem with I think panic attacts. If I go to a party or work

with my hubby who is not nice to work with. I shut down its wierd I

feel imbarrssed. I take a 1/2 valium before, but I wish I would not do

this. My hubby has to hep me leave, I am out going, but do to my

sickness and seisures I got home bound and imbarressed having siesures

and being sick. Now latley I have, been somwhat better with lyrica, my

being scred has not gone away, anyone else have these panic problems?

well just a problem that pagues me.

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