Posted by Anna Laura on November 28, 2001, at 23:38:33
In reply to Anyone experience mind torture, anxiety related?, posted by adamie on November 26, 2001, at 18:37:05
> mind torture as in even painful to be alive. cant think at all, cant concentrate. heart beating very fast. the sides of head burning.
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> this is on top and part of my extremely severe depression. I have no motivation for anything, no enjoyment from anything, no drive to do anything, little appetite, poor sleep, cant think, cant concentrate, memory extremely horrible, it feels sometimes as if i have no past, always living in the moment.
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> anyone experience mind torture or is my depression severe beyond reasonable help? ECT only helped minorly or not at all and it erased my memory but maybe much of that was from the depression anyway. almost all AD's have made me worse.
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> do panic attacks make people feel like every few seconds are painful to be alive?
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> is what I am dealing with just typical of extremely severe depression? with the mind torture time passes by extremely slow. it's like my mind cant focus on anything because it is occupied by feeling horrific beyond belief. i dunno how to describe it. also everything seems very dark. the worse it is the faster my heart beats and my head burns.
Hi Adamie,
I can totally relate: i have been in your shoes years ago; i still wonder how i managed to survive; at times the anxiety was so bad (it was constant) that i thought i was going to have an heart attack; which kind of drugs did you try? One small advice: try to avoid anticholinergic drugs: they might make you even more apathetic and you don't need that.
I know it's very very difficult, but try to divert yourself as much as possible: avoid staying home, try to do things, go out, see people even if you feel horrible: it might help. Can you eat? Food can be important, i used to eat some honey to keep me energies up.
If you want to write me, i'm here any moment.
Take careAnna Laura
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