Rebound anxiety.

[LDS32]

I replied to another poster about sensitized nerves. Claire Weekes said it could take months after high anxiety for your nerves to recover. Man was she right. I'd say I'm 80% recovered overall and went from feeling good for almost a week to a meltdown today. Over what? Wind blew my trash cans over and woke me up this morning. It led to sweating, chest pains and an awful day at work. It was like I never recovered from anxiety at all. I feel fine now but man these sensitive nerves are a bear.

[Justneedpeace]

I suffered a breakdown November of last year and I'm still at like 50% better.

My anxiety isn't as intense but it still there most of the time and I fear it's getting worse now with the winter months and seasonal depression .

so at least it does get better, just takes a while.

[LDS32 in reply to Justneedpeace]

I've battled with it for years on and off but had an 8 year period where I was fine but it came back in march and nearly crippled me until about September. I've been moving forward really well but today was bad. Real bad. Heck I even went out and had a few beers this weekend and boom! Today hit. Oh well worse things could happen I'll just keep moving forward.

[Justneedpeace in reply to LDS32]

yeah, ur lucky

Mine just doesnt wanna go away this time.

[Stay_strong85 in reply to Justneedpeace]

Same here. I had a breakdown Dec last year, and can't seem to kick it. Went to the doctor today.

[LDS32 in reply to Stay_strong85]

Hope all went well at doctor

[Stay_strong85 in reply to LDS32]

Being put on meds, but I have to say it is long over due. Thank you. I hope you are well.

[LDS32 in reply to Stay_strong85]

Hope the meds help.

[Stay_strong85 in reply to LDS32]

Thank you. Only on day two, body is still trying to adjust, but I feel calmer than I was. So it is a start. And weird thing I was so against meds, now i don't know why, if they are helping me feel "normal" again...lol 😊

[LDS32]

I wouldn't say I'm out of the woods yet and this was my longest run of anxiety I've dealt with. Usually It's 3 or 4 months months and I start improving this time it took much longer.

[Devin76oh in reply to LDS32]

how old are you and how long have you been living with anxiety?

[LDS32 in reply to Devin76oh]

I'm 38. I've had anxiety since I was 14 or so. Had bad spots in my 20s. My 30s were great until 8 months ago and it came back hard..

[Devin76oh in reply to LDS32]

How did it come back? Do you know what triggered it?

[LDS32 in reply to Devin76oh]

I had a flu and respiratory infection that lasted 8 weeks. My mom caught the same thing and almost died as she's older and not in great health. Not being able to breathe properly for over 2 months and worrying about my mom slammed my nerves and i was sacred to death long after I was healthy again.

[LDS32]

Today was much better than yesterday. Some brain fog and jitters but good overall.

[Devin76oh]

In my honest opinion we are always going to have anxiety. It is the way we react to those moments that defines what we are going to be experiencing. I had anxiety and panic attacks with out even knowing it before knowing that I was living with anxiety.

I've been living with knowing I have it for the past 5-6 months and quite honeslty it get better every day. I have set backs but nothing to what I had initally experienced.

I think we will always have minor set back, and to be at 100% Im not sure if that would ever happen. Is that a bad thing? No, not in my eyes because I know I am OK. I am OK at 60-70-80-90%

I have faith in God, faith in me and faith in the future.

And actually I don't even worry about the future . I live in this moment and in this moment alone. So don't worry about if you are going to regress because if it hasn't happened then great, but if it has happened, get back up, and know that you can get back to where you were and keep moving on.

God Bless

Devin

[LDS32]

I think you hit the nail on the head. What I consider low or no anxiety is a few bouts with panic attacks a year. The gnawing daily GAD is what messes me up. Like you I'm more than happy and functioning at 80%. But when I start dipping into not wanting to get out of bed and can't handle simple tasks like going to the store and such I know I'm getting bad. Right i'm leaning towards recovery. I know that cuz a bad day like yesterday would've set me back for weeks but right now I'm at 80% again. My baseline. So no complaints thank god.

[Devin76oh in reply to LDS32]

I have that as well. I have a chronic dull headache and of course I now its normal but my 20% of anxiety in me is trying to peep back. Honestly, I just let it do it's thing, and remind myself there that it'll go away eventually like everything else has.

But hey! It's Friday! Enjoy it!