I've had Panic disorder for over 8 years and I am currently at the age of 20. Some how I have made it this far but every time I seem to get a handle on my certain fears a new one comes up and throws me off guard. I'm currently unemployed, and not attending school, and hardly making it out of my house at times which also means I am not able to make it to my therapist or psychiatrist and this is all due to my resent relapse. Most recently my main fear has been the event of a panic attack itself but my worst problem is that I hyperventilate. Without even noticing its very shallow and hard to tell I am doing it. I try to control my thoughts and actually control my breathing but this usually ends up in me worrying more and more about whether I am breathing right and even if I breath slow and calm I still feel freaked out.
Hopefully I can get to know most of you here and possibly I could get some tips on how one of you perhaps overcame panic and a hyperventilation problem. Thanks for the future help and for listing to my very, very condensed story : )
Brian
My psychiatrist currently has me on an anti-seizure med. that supposedly works well with panic disorder. I€™m currently on effexor (187.5 mg) xanax (0.5 mg three times a day) and neurontin (400 mg this is the anti-seizure) I€™ve never had any seizures or anything near to one. I€™m truthfully not sure if it has made me feel any better but in the 8 years of having it I have never had a dream about panicking and now I do quite often€¦ my doc says its not the med. But I€™m still unsure. I have been on prozac, paxil, zoloft, wellbutrin, remron, serizone, imipramine, buspar and the scary one MAOI nardil. None of them seemed to work except effexor. Just wondering if the dream thing was normal and if it is why has it taken so long for me to have it happen to me. Oh well.. hope everyone is doing good. :)
Is there any future for an online support group chat where people can get instant responses from the other members?
Just wondering. I think it would be great to have more instant encourage and support.
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