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Dixxie
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| squirt wrote: | | Try learning cbt to get the tools you need to help yourself or join a cbt group. It has helped me get my life in order. |
Hi. I am a new comer to this forum (about 1 week old....just a babe) and I've been reading about your advice to join a group. I have just read about a goup to join in 2 newspapers recently.....some well known people have been attendees as well. They all are smiling now!! It's every Wednesday, at 7 pm. I think I will go. Let's see if I actually get there. Yesterday I started to feel a panic attack coming on as I sat on the train. My throat and voice were bad and I had to sit still. Eventually the feeling passed. So I resumed talking to my mother again (who was beside me.) I am not a young person. I am middle aged. My first panic attack was on my lunch hour when I was about 37. It was very bad. I had to run outside of the store.....I thought they would have to scrape me off the sidewalk if I passed out. Finally the episode subsided. Once I got back to work I felt so weak and upset. So very upset.
My GP never suggested a group or therapy.....only more pills. I keep Ativan (Lorapazam) with me. I've been on Paxil but they made me ill! Very bad headaches and nausea.
I keep thinking it must the change I am going thru. Do you think so??
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The Melody of Rain
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | My first panic attack was on my lunch hour when I was about 37. It was very bad. I had to run outside of the store.....I thought they would have to scrape me off the sidewalk if I passed out. Finally the episode subsided. Once I got back to work I felt so weak and upset. So very upset. |
What was the cause of this initial attack?
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Beachgirl
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey Dixxie I just replied to couple of other posts of you encouraging you about your group. I think things can change for you and that sounds like a cool group you will be going to. I just hope they use cbt because it is the bomb. Get good at doing tea forms and you'll start feeling way way better girl. Let me know how it goes? |
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trackstar
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I just finished a 16-week cbt group and count me as another big proponent of cbt and tea forms. |
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squirt
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| Hi Dixxie, I have not posted for awhile so sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I went the med route for years before finding out about cbt and getting myself better. I hope you are able to find a group or at least give the thought countering exercises like the tea form a try and see if it works for you. Doctors don't make extra money for referring you to groups so most just prescribe meds because that's all they really hear about from the drug reps. |
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Beachgirl
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Dixxie, I just posted on another thread I had a notification on asking how your group went? I hope it went well 
Great job trackstar! |
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Anxious Frank
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Besides CBT, I've found the best thing for depression is being actively thankful. I tell people why I it's so great having them in my life. They feel good and I feel even better as a result.
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squirt
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Anxious Frank wrote: | | Besides CBT, I've found the best thing for depression is being actively thankful. I tell people why I it's so great having them in my life. They feel good and I feel even better as a result. |
This sounds like good advice for everyone not just anxiety and depression sufferers Frank. Thanks for posting this and I hope you are feeling well.  |
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trackstar
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| AF, that makes sense and I am truly thankful to all the people that kept me going long enough find the help I needed in CBT |
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Beachgirl
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| trackstar wrote: | | AF, that makes sense and I am truly thankful to all the people that kept me going long enough find the help I needed in CBT |
Roger that  |
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