u/Ancient-Temperature6

Hi everyone I am 26yo M from NZ, for the past 3 months I’ve been struggling with anxiety. I used to be a very social outgoing bloke but now I can’t even leave the house without feeling anxious/nauseous or even having a panic attack. I’ve never suffered from anxiety until now and it’s ruining my social life and it’s definitely not been easy on my wife. I’ve been getting “health coaching” down at my gp and I find that helps but last night my mother in law stayed the night and I had one of my worst experiences with anxiety. I was like unable to move or speak and I was feeling overwhelmed and uncomfortable by how hot my body felt and just ridiculously nauseous, and today I got given sertraline by my doctor. I’ve had friends who have tried it and said that they didn’t like it and that the side effects were pretty bad for them. My doctor also told me that for the first 2 weeks I will feel worse, which terrifies me because of how shit and anxious I’ve been feeling. Not very brave haha. But I’m tired of feeling anxious and stressed and sadness from doing nothing so please if you could give me any tips or reviews of how you all went on it that’d be great thanks ❤️