Hi all,

I am new to these boards and am here because I didn't know where else to turn. I have suffered from anxiety and depression throughout my adulthood (I'm 29 now). This week has been particularly tough with regards to anxiety but tonight is exceptionally bad. I am all alone in a city away from my close friends living in an extremely hot part of the country without a car. Unfortunately I feel like I am about to have a full blown panic attack soon and am not sure what to do. I would go for a walk but it's not the safest area so I feel extremely bottled up inside my apartment.

I'm only going to be here for another week and have doing pretty well but for some reason I have been obsessing about the past a lot and freaking out about the future. I'm in a real "limbo" part of my life and the fact that I am turning the milestone age of 30 in six months isn't helping!

My doctor prescribed me an anti-anxiety a few years back and I only took one every couple of weeks as needed but I have found myself taking them more lately. It is scaring me so much because I don't want to be dependent on them at all! That's pretty much the reason I am refusing to take one tonight. Does anyone have any recommendations for things I can do to calm this anxiety down without medicine? I feel out of control!