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Coping with anxiety...

  • 02-06-2014 6:42pm
    #1
    Susjos11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi all, I'm new to this, I've never wrote on one of these sites before, but I'm at a dead end so I'll try anything. I am really struggling to cope with anxiety and this year alone have been to 3 GPs, 2 psychiatrists and 2 psychologists about it. I've also been to a&e twice out of sheer desperation. I have been repeatedly fobbed off and Im just given one anti depressant after another, none of which have helped. I understand doctors hesitation with giving anti anxiety medication due to addiction etc, but I feel like the doctors Ive met are making decisions based on their fear of prescribing these types of drugs rather than evaluating if they are necessary of not. I don't think the case is being treated individually if that makes sense. I don't care what I'm put on, I just need something to work and soon. I'm exhausted asking for help, anxiety is consuming me and I feel like it's getting out of control. I can't be in company with others because I get nervous and paranoid (then go over what I said a thousand times afterwards regretting every word, ill do the same with this post) but I also can't be alone because I need a distraction from my own thoughts. There's no relief. I'm shaky, my chest is twisted in knots, I've my nails bitten to the point I can't do daily tasks because my fingers are too sore.
    I won't elaborate further because it's endless, so if anyone has been in or knows someone in my shoes, I'd be interested in hearing anything you can tell me or any pointers on what to do next. Thanks


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  • #2
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Please read the forum charter here. This is an academic/scientific psychology forum, we discuss the science of psychology and where to take courses etc. We cannot discuss personal issues, and still less do we diagnose or prescribe for personal problems. JC




    As an aside, how come so many professionals are wrong? Can it be that you just want a particular answer? And how come you have come to a psychology forum when you seem to think that psychological treatment is being 'fobbed off'?


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