hello everyone , i started the program and i just began session 3 .I was also prescribed with zoloft but started feeling really strange side effects such as dry mouth , more anxiety , i would wake up in the middle of the night having a panic attack , all the medication did was help me with the obssesive thoughts about hurting people but i started thinking i was going crazy .. so i was put on kolonopin and stopped the zoloft. since then i have been feeling really stange and i was wondering if other people feel the same way as me . i overanalize everything i do and catch myself thinking why did i do that or why am i feeling like this ?or why am i thinking that ? is a constant second guessing myself and i feel strange all the time , like unreal . i dont know if anyone feels the same way ..
my thoughts about hurting people started happening about three months ago an it was with my ex boyfriend that i still love , we are trying to work things out but everytime i am around him i feel really anxious and strange i dont know what to do !! any advice ??

I started on Prozac and that did absolutely nothing for my anxiety. The doctor put me on Buspar and all that did was make me feel really spacey. My psychiatrist finally put me on Celexa. I am starting week 5 (after doing weeks 3 and 4 twice), am seeing a therapist and got my Celexa increased and I am feeling a lot better. I don't know if you are seeing a therapist or not, but I take my workbook to my appointments and we go over that weeks session. I think the combination of everything is really helping. I hope things get better for you. Just keep working on the sessions.

At Week 3 we are not quite ready to be proactive about our anxiety - that was my experience. I believe the doc's help. Yet, as we understand what we are facing and we work through the lessons, the frequency of anxiety attacks diminishes. Can you tie your anxiety attacks to some recent past events? If you can learn to use affirmations frequently, exercise daily for at least 30 minutes (cardio works well for me), you should get better quickly. Courage!

Caro, you answered most of your question with a comment you made. Over-analize everything. That is part of anxiety, and many-many in here have told me the same thing and also I did that. I will guess that the ocsessive thinking about the medsis causing you to be light headed. When we worry like that it releases adranaline in our body and that within itself makes us dizzy ebcause our body needs anrenalin only in a danger situation when we need to fight or flee, thus the term 'Fight or Flight mode'.All the 'why's' you mention are part of it too. We then think we are mentally unstable and think we willhurt others, while all along we would not even do such a thing in reality. All of this is curable! Yes completely curable! All this is called a disorder. Disorder means that things are out of their proper perspective and are disorderly in the thoughts, and we need to bring those thoughts out of disorder into Order. We are NOT mentally ill, only thinking in the wrong manner. Remember, this is not called an illness nor a disease, only a disorder. Get a book by Norman Vincent Peale called 'The Power of Positive Thinking'. That book helped meput things in perspective and also helped me understnad what I was doing wrong in the thoughts.
It's all in the thoughts, and we CAN CHANGE that! Be determined that you arent going to live like this anymore and pour yourself into the program.
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Rod

I think you need to give yourself time. You are still early on in the medication stage. Unfortunately you have to sometimes go through the wrong ones to find the one that will help...I tried 7 meds before I found the right combo for me. Don't be freaked out by your thoughts..we all have scary thoughts...they are distractors to keep us from facing what's REALLY wrong. Thoughts are just that. thoughts. as long as they stay in your head you can learn, in time, to let them pass and address the real issue. sounds like the relationship stuff needs to be dealt with so your brain can take a rest. trust me, i speak from experience. I am 2 years on the right meds. life is sooooo much better now. i still have weird thoughts, but I laugh them off and move on. you'll be there one day. keep working the program, meds and therapy. you can do it.

Luckily, I haven't had thought of hurting anyone but I understand the med thing. I came off all my meds, one because I hate the way they make me feel, two I hate being dependent on meds to help me and three and most important I am pregnant and it scares me that the baby will be born with withdrawal symptoms. This is my first anxiety attack since November which is a miracle in itself but I guess I just haven't had enough practice with the program. How do I get past the obsessive thought? I try to relax and float and all that I'm suppose to do but I obesses so much on finding a reason I feel like I'm going insane. Can you have anxiety just because? No reason just because!