High Anxiety dealing with sick dad

[AnxietyinAZ]

Its been almost a year since my dad was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. He has dealt with so much with side effects to other health problems. I went to see my parents for Thanksgiving and it had been a few months since I saw them. It was hard to see my dad losing weight, weak and fragile. Its so hard to watch this for anyone to watch your parent get older. I got so much anxiety to the point where I had a panic attack and it kept me up all night. Tried everything to try to calm down from meditation, yoga and even took my medication. I currently take fluoxetine, clonazepam, hydroxyzine pamoate and gabapentin. I want to possibly try another medication for my anxiety without taking gabapentin, hydroxyzine. What is anyone's suggestios what works for you?

[Hidden]

Hi

I am currently taking Citalopram 30mg and it is working for me but had taken a few months. It alone is not help completely so I use meditation and CBT therapy. Going running help keep thing in check. Personal I am not sure it is giving me the desired complete help so the other things seem to help on top. Also recommend box breathing.

[AnxietyinAZ in reply to Hidden]

I will try some of those suggestions 😊

[designguy]

I've found that a lot of my anxiety has stemmed from repressing my emotions so my suggestion is let yourself feel all of the fear and grief you have over the situation with your father and don't deny or repress it. Lean into it and do whatever you can to get in touch with it, it will be painful but no more painful than the anxiety and it will pass. Also try being rational with yourself that the fear and pain of losing a loved one is normal and an unfortunate part of life we all must deal with and allow yourself to grieve over the situation and be kind to yourself.

[AnxietyinAZ in reply to designguy]

Thanks for the great perspective advice👍