My anxiety seemed to get worse after I was medicated for schizophrenia. It can be crippling some days. I just started a higher dose of meds and it seems to be working. But I want to know about you. Do you have anxiety? How bad is it? And what do you do to cope?
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Everyone on earth has some anxiety. It’s necessary to live. It’s when it’s out of control that it interferes with the enjoyment of life. I take Diazepam and it helps but it sucks big time getting off benzos. I take 2 mg twice a day which is a small dosage. It can improve as you age, I know, mine has, and other symptoms took it’s place, like my mental pain as opposed to simply emotional pain, pain you can’t define, the pain of no emotions aside from anxiety.
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I know that pain @Jinx.
I am diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder along with schizophrenia. But that’s pretty common to have something like that in addition or part of sz. I’m very physically anxious due to stimuli around me, nothing that I have control over. A lot of people don’t understand that kind of anxiety. Telling yourself “everything’s ok” doesn’t work when it’s a physiological reaction. I take klonopin twice a day, would be nice to get off benzos someday though. Maybe CBD will help if it’s ever cheap enough for me to try it.
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Yes I have anxiety along with my bipolar/SZA
It’s much better now then it used to be in past years.
I get easily stressed out from the smallest things.
I take a very low dose of Klonopin PRN when needed.
I don’t take Klonopin on a daily basis, this way I can keep the dose very low and I avoid addiction issues.
Klonopin helps tremendously
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I take 60 mg of Buspar a day. It seems to have helped. Before I was so nervous I’d just lay in bed all day and try to sleep. I also had a really tight chest.l feeling. But it’s started to lift with the higher dose. I have GAD as well. Sometimes I feel like it’s worse than the schizophrenia. But then I get paranoid and remember schizophrenia sucks.
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I feel for you. I have anxiety issues as well. OCD with some social/performance anxiety. I do not take SSRIs or anything of that nature.
Let me know if you find anything that works. I haven’t yet.
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Around 3-6pm I have depression and anxiety and just want to go to sleep so I don’t feel it.
I take a sleeping tablet zoplicone around 5.30 pm sometimes another one if I wake up.
I was thinking of trying antanex again a muscle relaxant or so but don’t want to become addicted.
I am not a alcoholic or drug addict thankfully but could have been so hot to be careful.
I am probably addicted to my sleeping tablets but only take as dr said to.
It’s weird how anxiety just picks a certain time to kick in. Mine usually sets in a couple hours after I wake up. And around 3-4pm is when I get paranoid if I do get paranoid. Something about transitioning into a new part of the day is hard for me.
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At the moment I have regular anxiety. I am transitioning from working to the disability pension. I have an immense amount of guilt about this. Feel like scum.
Nah. I’m on social security. There’s days I miss working but then I remember. It makes me paranoid! We are disabled. It’s tough to accept. My anxiety keeps me from doing a lot
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I have anxiety but it’s not disabling.
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I get a lot of anxiety about my wife. She has a lot of health problems right now and just recently had surgery. I am kind of worried she might have cancer and the doctors haven’t found it yet. she often has trouble swallowing too so it scares me when she chokes a little on her food.
Yikes. I’m sorry that you are going through that. I am hoping the best for you.
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I have anxiety disorder along with my sza and take citalopram for anxiety as well as depression, it seems to work better for the anxiety nowadays but is not working so well for the depression
I have social anxiety. It has been getting better as I grow older. I can somewhat manage small talk most of the time.
Daily over various things. Therapy gave me the tools to get past it.
Yes, I get very bad anxiety attacks once a week. Still better than what it was about a year ago when it was daily. Got to continue with the progress.
I had a debilitating panic disorder from having a major panic attack back in 2000. I went through therapy and learned how to beat panic and anxiety through “unplugging the fear” associated with anxiety and panic…how? I carried a small stone in my pocket to grab to focus when I felt the anxiety creeping up…diverting my attenion onto something else immediately and fighting the wave of anxiety telling myself “so what??” if I had a panic attack, because it always goes away and the more you learn to fight it, the easier it becomes to overcome the panic and anxiety…takes a lot of practice, but now I am anxiety free and no prn’s.
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Jukebox. I suffer from pretty severe panic attacks to. My therapist gave me the strategy of saying “maybe not”. It helps sometimes. I’m down from having one a few times a week to about twice a month. It really comes on strong if I drink. So I am in the process of becoming sober.
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