Extreme anxiety today

[hooterificjoy]

So yesterday I woke up feeling really off. My head was foggy and cloudy and just felt weird overall. I managed to make it through a 12 hr shift even though I was a wreck. Today I woke up shaking, my mind and thoughts racing and very anxious and crying. I took 0.25mg of klonopin which normally works well to calm me and it helped for a few hours but now it’s 4 hrs later and I’m on my lunch break about to go into tears, I can barely eat, I’m shaking and feel like I’m going to pass out or go crazy. I made an appointment to be seen but it isn’t til Tuesday. I worry about everything and I’m worried about taking the other half of my klonopin to help calm me down. I worry that my anxiety is getting so bad I won’t be able to control it with meds. Just need alittle reassurance I guess that it’s okay to take more if I feel like I need it.

[Wannachange01]

Take rest and sleep well

[Anxietyst]

I don't know what to say about meds but try to order your thoughts until the appointment.Write them on the paper so you will know what to talk talk about at your appointment. Set some mini goals(housecleaning, shopping, a walk, a run etc) until your appointment.

Get a day off(if you can), relax at home a little. You deserve to be well, and you will be.

[Jeff1943]

hooterificjoy, taking half the therapeutic dose is a lot less likely to help you, I would take the dose your doctor prescribed.

Your reassurance that it's fine to take the full dose comes from the fact that your doctor went to medical school for 5 years whereas none of us here did.

Have confidence in your doctor and the medications he or her prescribe as you clearly need the benefit they will bring.

Anxiety can't send you crazy, anxiety has its limitations. Maybe it would be helpful to learn more about anxiety disorder, understanding can bring reassurance. Otherwise imagination takes over and we fear the very worst in everything even though those fears are false.

Why not take a look at some of the YouTube videos about anxiety disorder, the ones by Doctor Claire Weekes are particularly helpful I find.

You are not going to feel like this forever. You will recover. Learning and understanding will set you free.