Hey, not sure if this is the right place to post this but i'll fire ahead anyway. Recently i've been suffering from panic attacks and worrying about my health. I've always been fine before, this started around the time of uni in november. I get so paranoid about my health, if i get a pain i think i'm dying. It's usually pains around my chest i worry about even though i've been told theres nothing wrong, just paranoia. However i'm tired of having panic atttacks, i'll get a week where im fine then the next i can hardly do anything as my mind is totally fixed on dying. My dad died of lung cancer last year so this could be an after effect,as i don't talk about things, i keep to myself usually. i dont know how to deal with it though and dont want it taking over my life.
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Anxiety and depression
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Panic attacks are serious and need professional support. The right medication can help a lot. Your doctor should be able to refer you to someone suitable. Don't just let it go untreated or it will go on and on.
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Happens to me a lot too. Most will say that talking is all you need to overcome you fears, don't be mislead by this - a combination of medication and counselling will be more beneficial. Don't do the mistake that I've done with opting with 'just' counselling and being unable to see a person for more than a whole month and a half because of a fucking waiting list.
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Thats true, actually alot of people have been urging me to talk to someone about general stuff, however I don't see how this will stop panic attacks and things that go with it. My mum used to suffer from this too when she was younger and has told me that medication is not the key, it has to be sorted in the mind. so im a little stuck as to know what to do.
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Your mum said exactly what my mum would say. This is completely not true; medicaion these days are a lot better than back in their day. My mum still thinks that all these new medications are like some of the stuff made in the 50's that had terrible side effects. I'd say definitely try both - a combination can't hurt. Also see a professinal who knows what he's talking about, not some ignorant twat that I met recently.
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medication can/does help you a lot, but, you also have to look at what causes, the panic attacks or depression, cos at the end of the day the medication is not going to stop the cause, just the symptoms.......
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It's always good to explore, but sometimes depression and it related symptoms are causes by chemical issues. Thus, in some cases, drugs can fix the underlying problem (when the drugs are taken as directed). But, yeah, it is very worthwhile to do talk therapy in conjunction.
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What i want to make clear here first off is that anxiety is very very common. It in a sense is normal. Now what i mean by that is its normal to get frustrated with things as we all do. But as to how serious it is is another thing. I myself have problems with anxiety....i get very angry and stressed very quickly...i think its my italian temper lol. But when to decide to get treatment is decided by if the anxiety is affecting u at all.....so by this i mean health, daily life things like this. and in ur case its ur health. You need to see a dr if it happens like that. however id otn think medication is always the asnwer, i always reccomend counseling b4 medication. btu u do whatever u feel is right, and let me know how it all goes
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o steve dont comfuse depression and anxiety because they are acutally 2 very differnt things. So dont mistake them that they cause eachother and just because u have one u will have the other because its not true....i know u didnt say that but im just lettin u know so someone doesnt assume it
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Yup, no problem. In fact, there are separate drugs for each condition. I have a family member who takes Ativan for anxiety, and Paxil (an SSRI) for depression. But they're used at different times. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they don't.But that family member responded very well (and relatively quickly) to Paxil for depression. At one point, OCD was part of the depression. Paxil took care of that as well. In his case, I don't think counseling would have accomplished much. But it's different for different people.In the case of the original poster, depression may have no bearing on the situation, and he might benefit from non-drug therapy. And the leap to a depression diagnosis was unwarranted. But I'd be inclined to let the pros figure it out.
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i know how you feel. my doc told me:anxiety and depression are actually deeply tied in with each other. most of the time one sets the other off. you can treat it with meds, and as stated before, know what the causes are.mine was drugs ...i hate myself everyday for EVER trying cannibis
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anxiety and depression are actually deeply tied in with each other. most of the time one sets the other off.
Actually they do not cause eachother....like i said b4, they DO NOT cause eachother, it just so hapens that most of the time when someone has one they get the other. There has been no proven research showing a direct link. Your thinking of correlation and not causation. Correlation is when something is related to another because it may happen that when one sympotom shows the other shows as well....however that does not mean in any way that the one symptom causes the other.
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You're right that nothing is proven, aTa7. However, the fact that many antidepressants are also useful for anxiety is suggestive. Also, anxiety causes stress, and stress causes Corticotrophin Releasing Factor and cortisol to be released, and these are known to induce depression.
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Yea also true, but look at it this way, they r findin out more n more everyday how different meds can be used for different things....so who knows what tomorrow will bring
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yeayea i meant correlation , but anxiety sparked my depression, so im just goin on experience.