Social Anxiety Support

troshs · 07-15-2011, 06:48 PM

So relieved to have found this site! In real life I have only met 1 person who has social anxiety disorder, and hers is not nearly as bad as mine. Since I was four, I have suffered countless attacks in where I vomit relentlessly until the attack cycle decides to break. Numerous things trigger my attacks, too many to name. Sometimes the things that trigger them don't even make sense. It's just a certain thing which hits my brain the wrong way and then there it goes. My longest running rolling anxiety attack that I have had lasted two weeks and it was during the summer of 2003. I was lucky to be alive afterwards because I was so dehydrated and disoriented that if my mom hadn't been there, I may have ended up dead. If it weren't for the continuous nausea and vomiting, my attacks might be somewhat more manageable. (After living with this for years, an attack without nausea would be a blessing.) The nausea is the main symptom that makes everything horrible about the attacks, and its the one that that I want to get rid of. Usually nothing works. I've been on Ativan, Zoloft, Paxil, Lorazepam, and up until recently, I hadn't had a bad attack for a long time, and I stopped taking the Paxil (also because I didn't have insurance and a doctors visit was 60 dollars every time I ran out of refills.) So just recently, this past Friday, I happened to come across an email on my boyfriends account in which his ex girlfriend had sent him some pictures of herself nude, and the date shown on the email was about 10 months into OUR relationship. He had chosen to save these pictures instead of telling her to back off. This triggered an attack that lasted until just yesterday. Monday night, I went to bed and woke up at 1:30 AM. I was sick and disoriented all the way up until 10 AM the next morning, and had had enough. I went to the emergency room and sat for over 2 hours just for a 5 minute visit with the doc, he prescribed me my Paxil again, and put me on a weeks worth of Xanax. Tonight as I write, the anxiety is gone, but I chose not to take a Xanax. I decided to Google the effects, and most of the posts were about sufferers like myself being prescribed the drug, and then becoming addicted to them. I found this forum in the search results and am very grateful. I hope to connect to other victims of this insane disorder and together we can all kick this crap!

millenniumman75 · 07-16-2011, 12:56 PM

Welcome, TroshS!

161 · 07-16-2011, 01:20 PM

welcome, you should be proud of yourself you searched for this place most people dont which is a pity

notna · 07-16-2011, 01:57 PM

Welcome to the forums!

That's great that you found this site, It's a brilliant place.

Sorry to hear about the photo thing..

shadow cougar · 07-17-2011, 03:59 AM

Hello and welcome.

Toad Licker · 07-17-2011, 10:36 AM

Hey Heather, welcome to

MavenMI6Agent009 · 07-17-2011, 08:45 PM

Welcome :O)

marlonbrando · 07-18-2011, 04:34 AM

hi
I'm just at the stage of staying inside, not leaving the house, going into forums like this, I never knew there was forums like this, or It didn't occur to look.
anyway

07-15-2011, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
troshs Status: SA Sufferer Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Hughesville, PA Gender: Female Age: 24 Posts: 3	I needed this a long time ago! So relieved to have found this site! In real life I have only met 1 person who has social anxiety disorder, and hers is not nearly as bad as mine. Since I was four, I have suffered countless attacks in where I vomit relentlessly until the attack cycle decides to break. Numerous things trigger my attacks, too many to name. Sometimes the things that trigger them don't even make sense. It's just a certain thing which hits my brain the wrong way and then there it goes. My longest running rolling anxiety attack that I have had lasted two weeks and it was during the summer of 2003. I was lucky to be alive afterwards because I was so dehydrated and disoriented that if my mom hadn't been there, I may have ended up dead. If it weren't for the continuous nausea and vomiting, my attacks might be somewhat more manageable. (After living with this for years, an attack without nausea would be a blessing.) The nausea is the main symptom that makes everything horrible about the attacks, and its the one that that I want to get rid of. Usually nothing works. I've been on Ativan, Zoloft, Paxil, Lorazepam, and up until recently, I hadn't had a bad attack for a long time, and I stopped taking the Paxil (also because I didn't have insurance and a doctors visit was 60 dollars every time I ran out of refills.) So just recently, this past Friday, I happened to come across an email on my boyfriends account in which his ex girlfriend had sent him some pictures of herself nude, and the date shown on the email was about 10 months into OUR relationship. He had chosen to save these pictures instead of telling her to back off. This triggered an attack that lasted until just yesterday. Monday night, I went to bed and woke up at 1:30 AM. I was sick and disoriented all the way up until 10 AM the next morning, and had had enough. I went to the emergency room and sat for over 2 hours just for a 5 minute visit with the doc, he prescribed me my Paxil again, and put me on a weeks worth of Xanax. Tonight as I write, the anxiety is gone, but I chose not to take a Xanax. I decided to Google the effects, and most of the posts were about sufferers like myself being prescribed the drug, and then becoming addicted to them. I found this forum in the search results and am very grateful. I hope to connect to other victims of this insane disorder and together we can all kick this crap!

07-16-2011, 12:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
millenniumman75 Status: Mentor Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Dayton, OH Gender: Male Age: 37 Posts: 93,011	Welcome, TroshS! __________________ millenniumman75 You are a success story waiting to happen! Live and let live VACUUMS more than a Hoover.... Live and HELP live is better! TROLL ALERT STATUS: CHAT -> BERT FORUMS -> ERNIE (troll activity on the increase) WATCH WHAT YOU TYPE!

07-16-2011, 01:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
notna Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Gender: Male Age: 17 Posts: 709	Welcome to the forums! That's great that you found this site, It's a brilliant place. Sorry to hear about the photo thing.. __________________ soundcloud

07-17-2011, 03:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
shadow cougar Status: SAS Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Hertfordshire, England Gender: Male Age: 31 Posts: 1,301	Hello and welcome. __________________ Death begins from the day you are born but life begins when you make the choice to live.

07-17-2011, 10:36 AM	#6 (permalink)
Toad Licker Status: Broken Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: A Fruitloop Daydream Gender: Male Posts: 84,886	Hey Heather, welcome to __________________ Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry. Mama's gonna make all your nightmares come true. Mama's gonna put all her fears into you. Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing. She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing. Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm. Ooooh baby, ooooh baby, oooooh baby, Of course mama's gonna help build the wall. - Pink Floyd

07-16-2011, 01:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
161 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney Australia Gender: Male Posts: 795	welcome, you should be proud of yourself you searched for this place most people dont which is a pity

07-17-2011, 08:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
MavenMI6Agent009 Status: UnDERrAted Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: EL Crappo, Tx Gender: Male Age: 28 Posts: 25,767	Welcome :O) __________________ "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." (Henri Nouwen) -------------------------------------------------------

07-18-2011, 04:34 AM	#8 (permalink)
marlonbrando Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Gender: Male Posts: 12	hi I'm just at the stage of staying inside, not leaving the house, going into forums like this, I never knew there was forums like this, or It didn't occur to look. anyway

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