Getting better but scared.

[alex]

Hello everybody.I have been thinking about posting about this feeling-idea-Symptom?

As I have been telling you, I have been noticing improvement in the sense that symptoms are not as intense as they used to be, and I feel an overall improvement even though VERY slow.

BUT, (I don´t know how to say this) I have the tendency to read the extreme long term recovery cases and I repeat, even though I can feel improvement, I get really scared and my mind jumps from one scenario to another: 18-24 months to be MUCH better...(that´s the norm??)and 5-8 years and still struggling.

I´m 60 years old, I don´t have that much time!

Does anybody else feels this way??




What a scary thing this is...I quit AD to have a BETTER LIFE.....!

8 months Effexor free after 4 years on 150mgs no meds since

[Needinghelp]

I feel the same. 4 years on 20mg paxil, adverse reaction, 8 months off NO IMPROVEMENT

[Claudius]

For me it took about 19 months to exoerience a first improvement and had even since then an extremely harsh road to recovery. I can imangine that you feel too old for this. I as "only" 40 when I entered this hellish road but it was a crucial age too, it is an age that employers exceot you to have a solid working experience and also the age that the concurrence of younger and better educated people begins to work against you.
There is never a good time/age for WD, imagine being on school or university and missing 4-6 years, which is equal to a complete course. Those people are even wose off, unable to do their schooltime over.
I think that at an older age, you are in some way even better able to continue your normal, pre-WD life.

[Luc]

Every single person, even if in some cases so slowly, starts to improve, Alex. It looks like you are already on this path. The neuro-thoughts and scares you're experiencing are perfectly normal in a WD, but they will be getting less and less intense.

[Sheila]

Alex -- Remember, even though you are doing better, you are still prone to neuro-emotion. And neuro-anxiety will find *something* to worry about. If it were not one thing, it would be another. Most people recover from ADs quickly.


Claudius -- You make a very good point. There is no good time to recover from ADs. But, I think it's hardest for the teenagers because they have no point of reference to a pre-drug self. I believe it's easier to cope and recover if you have some sense of who you are and what "normal" is like.

[alex]

I´m having bad money problems; I have some good projects to solve this situation.But my fear, (sometimes horrendous overwhelming) is not be able to work on this matter properly.One of the symptoms that I´m dealing with is isolation; I go out, but I return to the "safety" of my apartment, and right now I don´t even imagine spending the night in another place.W/D has made my life very "small".

Even or despite the intense waves of fear and anxiety I can feel an overall improvement it comes and goes, even in the same day.

Thank you ALL for your support, you are my heroes.

[Luc]

The chemically-induced WD agoraphobia and all kinds of anxieties limit one's life immensely. Taking it back very gradually, one step at a time, without blaming oneself for the not always fast enough progresion is the way to go.

[Cosette123]

I´m having bad money problems; I have some good projects to solve this situation.But my fear, (sometimes horrendous overwhelming) is not be able to work on this matter properly.One of the symptoms that I´m dealing with is isolation; I go out, but I return to the "safety" of my apartment, and right now I don´t even imagine spending the night in another place.W/D has made my life very "small".

Even or despite the intense waves of fear and anxiety I can feel an overall improvement it comes and goes, even in the same day.

Thank you ALL for your support, you are my heroes.

I quit Paxil(Cold turkey) 5 years ago and I began to experiment severe agoraphobia at 2 years off.I know what you mean with your life which is "very small".I felt extremely guilty when I had agoraphobia and panic attacks. But month after month, the agoraphobia has gone away.I can't say that I have now a "normal life" but everything is better and I stopped considering me like a "zombie" or a "crap".

[bruno2006]

I agree with the others.

You will get through this and dont obsess over how long it will take because everyone is different. What you can obsess about is how wonderful life will be drug free. Your body will love you for not putting toxins in it and will show you!

[stan]

it is normal to have these thoughts, let time pass, you seem to improve well, it is a good sign