GAD General Anxiety Disorder

[DonkeyRose]

I have had this nearly all my life due to stresses and traumas throughout my childhood. At present I am just recovering from my 4th breakdown at the end of 2024. Still going through immense stresses and anxiety issues with lots more too follow up. My stress levels are rising constantly and I am now becoming very tearful again and short fused. Still taking 25mg pregabalin, 50mg sertraline, 250mg depakote for bipolar disorder plus little amounts of other medications for other issues. Any suggestions as to my mood swings please.

[Fairylightsparkle]

daft question have you had any therapy? Like CBT or CAT type therapies?

I take diazepam when I get incredibly anxious and I also take venlafaxine for my depression/anxiety.

Do you also have fibromyalgia?

[DonkeyRose in reply to Fairylightsparkle]

Waiting for more CBT in a long line. Was weaned off diazepam because it was highly addictive and they would not give it to me whilst in hospital. Been diagnosed this month of Feb for fibromyalgia. I have lovely doctors who actually have time to listen to me. They were very intrigued when I said I would like to be tested for fibromyalgia. Had a whole month of testing just to please us both that there wasn't anything underlying. My whole family genetics seem to be the route of it. Kind regards

[Fairylightsparkle in reply to DonkeyRose]

The issue is there is not one test that diagnoses fibromyalgia.trauma is known to be a contributing factor of Fibro. Sometimes if we deal with those mental issues our fibromyalgia can relent

[Animalover39]

hello hope your well o to have suffered with anxiety for 11 years since the loss of my mum I have health anxiety I was told I’m a bad googler to my physiotherapist knows about anxiety which is useful I also have cbt I was given videos to watch form my lovely physiotherapist this is a new trial for neck pain to and the things I’ve found out is like wow

I’m sorry to hear your suffering I guess it never leaves us with me it goes and comes back and my muscles tighten I’m hoping these videos will help me