u/coco_shibe

Hello everyone! Just wanted to ask how was your journey starting self loving? I used to be good at self compassion but life got busy I think I reverted back to being hard on myself and now my anxiety has caught up and I wish I could be easy on myself. Everytime I try I just feel weird like its not real or im being too lenient on myself. Did you guys ever feel this way starting ? Does it get easier ? Anxiety makes me feel like its a super long journey but I want to feel better about who I am and tell myself im enough.

Anybody have experience stopping early? It stopped my panic attacks but I feel really uncomfortable with the emotional blunting and seems like it might be having some sleep issues. Granted I was taking it at night. I didnt take it last night and feel relatively fine maybe alittle anxious but nothing like before. Curious to hear your thoughts?

I used to have anxiety in college and had to work through them for years. It started from finding out I was highly sensitive to caffeine. Eventually the anxiety and panic attacks went away around 2022. Until last month beginning of April.

I was involved in a car crash and got my car totaled. I was fine aside from the whiplash. I didnt have health insurance so I didnt get checked by the Dr though and I had a panic attack that night cause my credit wasn't good enough to get a car by myself. Luckily my gf stepped up and consigned for me and we went on a camping trip that same weekend. During that camping trip someone brought chocolate magic mushrooms and I had a 2g piece even though it was my first time and I panicked like crazy. Ive been done drugs before or smoked weed or anything and I would drink maybe once a month prior. All this rush of anxiety and panic has flooded me. Since that trip which is about 4 weeks now Ive been living with day to day anxiety.

The last week ive been having daily panic attacks and last night I have not been able to sleep. I would try to nap in the afternoon but my brain kept hitting the panic button and jolting me awake. At night my brain just felt wired and I tried to change environments from room to living room and it helped me get tired but I couldnt sleep. Only ended up falling asleep from 5am to 7am.

Hey everyone was hoping to seek some advice. 1 month ago I was involved in a car accident and thankfully didnt get too injured but my car was totaled. That night I had a panic attack for financial reasons as I had lost my own business months ago and had to go back into working IT. When I lost my car I couldnt get a new one cause my credit was shot but my gf thankfully helped me and consigned. However since then I have never been able to shake off the anxiety and over the last week been having panic attacks daily. Its to the point I hate going to work. I hate working out, which was something I used to enjoy doing and now im anxious to drink water or eat food. I have to force myself which is a problem itself which makes me feel anxious.

I went to the ER 3 days ago and they gave me ativan which helped but told me to follow up with my PCP may 19th and I had a scheduled appointment with a therapist May 13th. Aside from that my body was fine they even did a cat scan for me to show me nothing wrong with my head. They told me to hang in there until I can speak to a therapist.

The anxiety comes in waves where there are moments I feel so hopeless and tell myself I cant do anything, then there are moments I am able to do something like go for a walk and listen to music I like and its okay. I just wanna be okay and not feel anxious drinking water or eating some food.