When an anxiety attack hits after a week or two of feeling normal.
I find these to be the most deflating. After 2 and a half weeks of 10mg celexa my anxiety started to make a sharpe return. i was just put on 20mg of celexa and three daily doses of 5mg buspirone about a week and a half ago and i have felt great. I’ve been leaving the house, I’ve been living life and my anxiety has been manageable with no attacks. Cut to yesterday, my wife and I went to the mall and I felt this cold wave of anxiety and panic wash over me. We walked around and I was able to shake it off, but I remained on edge for the rest of the day. Last night I woke up several times from anxiety spikes, and this morning g I woke feeling completely disassociated and scared. Tight muscles, racing thoughts, all of it. I ended up having to take a hydroxyzine. I’m typing this while standing ankle deep in freezing cold water trying to shock my nervous system out of the spiral and I’m settling down, also called a crisis line just to talk for a while. What the fuck? I’m so exhausted by my anxiety. Has my system already gotten used to the new doses or is this just a random bad day while my body adjusts? I start a new job in a week (had to leave the old one do to my mental health) and I’m terrified my anxiety is going to fuck this one up too. My wife and I need money, I need to help keep us afloat, but my mental health has been an absolute nightmare. My new job is remote but the first 6 weeks are in person training and I’m so scared I’m going to be an anxious mess and fuck everything up.