This Australian website is good.It's a kind of self done - cognitive based therapy. I've had some patients who think its great, others not so keen.https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcomeExercise is interesting - lots of people feel it helps, the recent clinical evidence is less encouraging of its role. I still tell people to do some
Quote from: Plattsy on October 10, 2012, 08:50:16 amI was given a prescription for Citalopram (sp?) which I'm yet to get. Some of the side effects put me off.When my depression escalated to depression + anxiety/panic attacks (fun!) my prescription was switched from Prozac to Citalopram. As well as it addressing the panic quite well, I found it far less intrusive than the Prozac - it didn't make me feel quite as "drugged" and didn't affect my libido as much. I found it a great help.
I was given a prescription for Citalopram (sp?) which I'm yet to get. Some of the side effects put me off.
Glad to see my post has prompted such a positive response.I'm no Doctor (well I am but not a medical one) but I was surprised to learn that depression and anxiety are manifestation of a physical illness of the limbic system rather than a mental disorder and that SSRI meds are not doping pills but address some physical processes that impact and effect mood and physiology. This book is really good written by a GP and should be required reading by anyone suffering and their close family members.
I can hardly run at the moment
Had my first panic attack for about 10 years at my desk in the office on the 18 September. Even though I'm no old hand at these things I could feel it coming. I adopted a "bring it on" approach and rode it out. Luckily no one came over and bothered me during else it could've been messy. Not had one since *touch wood*
I've never hear about a group who produce naturally low level of serotonin - sounds like rubbish to me.
Quote from: Plattsy on October 11, 2012, 08:44:58 amHad my first panic attack for about 10 years at my desk in the office on the 18 September. Even though I'm no old hand at these things I could feel it coming. I adopted a "bring it on" approach and rode it out. Luckily no one came over and bothered me during else it could've been messy. Not had one since *touch wood*That's precisely the strategy that started helping me out of a long bout of them Plattsy. Visualisation and an acceptance that it was my mind generating them not my body became key to getting rid. At the peak of attacks I wound up in hospital for a few days strapped to an ECG but I think that particular bout was exacerbated due to consumption of a LOT of vodka and Dr Pepper (obviously high in caffeine) and about 30 odd hours of scrolling japanese shoot em up games (hallucinated for days!). "What's the worst that could happen?". I wasn't particularly grateful for being placed in a room with two men in the late stages of lung cancer whilst I was being monitored I can tell you!I know the feeling very well you talk of Plattsy where anybody asking "are you ok?" makes you almost explode with anger. I still get like this every single time I have a blood test (go white, sweaty as hell, incomprehensible, angry). I wish you all the best with ridding yourself of anxiety. Again, as others have said, copious amounts of exercise certainly worked for me in conjunction with a reduction in alcohol consumption.
Psychoman - I would guess your gastritis is all linked to your mood. Its common for people to suffer with this with mood disorders. Or get IBS - which is how some people stress and anxiety presents itself. Would be worth taking a ppi as the anti-depressants also cause gastritis.
Prozac (fluoxetine) is not often used first line these days - I use it those that had been on it in the past.
Reading this all with hindsight - seems that alcohol reduction may well have played a part for me too... virtually no weekday evening drinking, healthy weight loss and in hindsight, possibly a general lift of my mood