Hello everyone
I need some serious advice please. I have suffered with debilitating anxiety, panic attacks and fear for about 4 mos now and it has basically taken my quality of life, I am depressed, unable to work sleep right etc, moved in with parents and I am 41 with a family, I have been seeing a therapist for about 10 weeks who says she is using cbt, but so far I am little improved, I am scheduled to see a pdoc in two weeks and am very scared, I have never been to a doc like this and never had any health problems. I am extremely afraid of meds, I have read about the horrible side affects from these drugs, brain zaps, withdrawal etc. My pdoc has a very high recommendation, but I tried Zoloft and celexa once from my family doc and the first day both gave me a horrible panic attack, not sure if it was placebo affect or not but it felt like it was from the drugs. I am currently taking about two .25 xanax a day now just to function at all. Could someone give me any encouragement or offer their views on this for me, please nothing scary as I am really struggling through this time in my life and need support. And feel like I don’t know where to turn. Thanks so much to all.
chris