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Getting help for crippling anxiety

MissASenior Contributor31 Aug 2023, 7:03 am AEST

Getting help for crippling anxiety

Morning guys,

I am still fairly new to the site, so I haven't read all relevant posts yet 😛

I have had nerves/anxiety since my parents split when I was around 7 (40 years), and bouts of severe anxiety for the last 29 years. No matter how many therapists/psychologists/psychiatrists or medications I have tried over this time, I still get bouts (sometimes months) of paralysing physical anxiety whether my thoughts are negative or fearful or if my day is going fine.

I have had to take an extended amount of time out of the workforce since the end of May as I had just hit rock bottom with this issue (and less often, bouts of depression) and to work on coming off the 2 substances I medicated myself with just to get some relief from the crippling symptoms and seek further help for it all.

I would SO appreciate hearing other people's stories and suggestions for turning off the seemingly constant fight/flight response that is setting off in my brain.

Thanks heaps and have a great day.

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BoppaSenior Contributor04 Sept 2023, 2:40 pm AEST

Re: Getting help for crippling anxiety

I don't have a solution and I'm sorry we share a seemingly constant fight/flight response that is triggered constantly.

Cannabis therapy has helped me a bit but my big hope is with the Internal Family Systems model of therapy I am doing atm. I am a year in to what others have suggested could be a 3-4 year journey.

If you want to know more about it there are some great YouTube videos or you can read the book No Bad Parts by Richard C Schwartz, who invented this form of therapy.

I hope you can find your good place again soon.

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MissASenior Contributor04 Sept 2023, 3:29 pm AEST

Re: Getting help for crippling anxiety

Hey @Boppa,

Thanks for the message and the suggestions, I will be sure to check them out. I hope that the therapy is really successful for you 🙂 There is another author called Bessel Van Der Kolk (psychiatrist) who has stuff on You Tube and wrote The Body Keeps The Score. My psychiatrist suggested I read the book and I got it online a few years ago but now I don't currently know where it is lol (moved house since I got it). His research may be of interest to you too.

Have a peaceful day 🙂

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BoppaSenior Contributor05 Sept 2023, 9:01 am AEST

Re: Getting help for crippling anxiety

Thanks a million, I think my wife has the book "the body keeps the score" so I will have a search for it, thanks for the reminder and I hope you find your good place again soon.

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