My anxiety comes in waves. Almost three days of every week I'm just incapacitated.

[quothe]

It just pains me to see how bad my anxiety has become . I was on an SSRI for about two months. It didn't work out well. It made me sleepy and just numbed me down. So under my psychiatrist's supervision, I weaned off of it. I didn't go back to my psychiatrist or my therapist since.

It's gotten worse since I stopped taking the meds. Earlier depression used to be my major problem but now anxiety has taken it's place. I barely manage to function for a few days a week, attend classes and all. At some point, I start having panic attacks and it all goes down hill from there. Till yesterday night I felt so panicked and anxious I couldn't even process my thoughts. Today I feel alright. This uncertain nature of my mind is scaring me. What would be the right way to proceed from here?

Also, I'm new here so if I'm doing something wrong, please point it out. Thanks.

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Hi quothe,

I'm so sorry you're feeling like this. I completely understand how you are feeling, my anxiety is almost constant at the moment. My first suggestion would be to go back to your therapist and consider trying CBT. My second suggestion would to be give SSRIs another go, maybe you weren't on the right one? I've not had them but I do know of people who have switched and that helped them no end!

But please do try and go back to therapy if you can, just having someone to talk to can relieve the anxiety a lot. And they might be able to help you identify triggers or suggest coping mechanisms to get you through your anxious days.

[kam62284]

I am in the exact same place. My anxiety has gotten so bad I’m incapable of trying to work through it - I just can’t focus on anything. I feel like I’m crawling out of my skin. I go to therapy every other week; my next session in Tuesday. I’m going to ask about going back on medication because as much as I don’t want to, I need to be able to eat and sleep, neither of which I can do right now.