I've been on sertraline for five or six days now. It's more effective than laxatives for assisting digestive transit and I go through phases of feeling too nauseous to eat anything and wanting to eat everything if it stands still long enough, food, carpets, small children.
My diaphragm feels constricted, I catch myself holding my breath, the bite pressure excerpted across my molars is phenomenal and gives me neck and headaches and my left hand is curling tensely into my body.
I'm not aware I'm doing this until I catch myself doing it. The only positives I can see thus far are that the drugs are having some sort of effect and I suppose I've got somewhere to hang my handbag.
On my very recent visit to my GP practice, it was suggested I was referred to the mental health team for assessment. I must have been as batty and troubled as I actually worried I was. I did mention long term OCD and general anxiety disorder and suggest they may be co morbid conditions relating to HFA.
This evening I received a call for a phone triage from ...?...someone, can't remember the name, from the mental health team. I had nodded off when the phone woke me.
Any family who call me know to relay the facts first, give me a minute and then ask me questions (gives me time to understand)
The caller identified themselves and was greeting with silence until it finally registered what was happening and I could dig out an appropriate response.
I wonder if I sounded odd because the triage didn't happen and they'll call again tomorrow.
I should have asked what time because that's all I'll be thinking about from sun up to sun down until it actually happens.
My diaphragm feels constricted, I catch myself holding my breath, the bite pressure excerpted across my molars is phenomenal and gives me neck and headaches and my left hand is curling tensely into my body.
I'm not aware I'm doing this until I catch myself doing it. The only positives I can see thus far are that the drugs are having some sort of effect and I suppose I've got somewhere to hang my handbag.
On my very recent visit to my GP practice, it was suggested I was referred to the mental health team for assessment. I must have been as batty and troubled as I actually worried I was. I did mention long term OCD and general anxiety disorder and suggest they may be co morbid conditions relating to HFA.
This evening I received a call for a phone triage from ...?...someone, can't remember the name, from the mental health team. I had nodded off when the phone woke me.
Any family who call me know to relay the facts first, give me a minute and then ask me questions (gives me time to understand)
The caller identified themselves and was greeting with silence until it finally registered what was happening and I could dig out an appropriate response.
I wonder if I sounded odd because the triage didn't happen and they'll call again tomorrow.
I should have asked what time because that's all I'll be thinking about from sun up to sun down until it actually happens.
