Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 9489

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living with the symptoms

Posted by michel on August 1, 1999, at 23:44:34

I would like to start a dialogue about some of the odd and frightening symptons of panic disorder. I believe my son would really benefit from hearing that he is not the only one who has these strange symptoms, that many times he cannot even describe. The one that bothers him most is the feeling that he hears things repeated in his head, like an echo. Another is feeling like an electric shock is going through him. Sometimes it is hard to convince him that there is not something terribly wrong with his brain . . . or rather that if it is, it's something that he can compensate. Anyone else ever feel like the lone ranger? Or I should say the wierd lone ranger? I feel very involved because I've suffered from panic disorder my whole adult life though I appear to live a very normal and actually very "Brave" life! I sometimes feel guilty, that I have "passed on" this terrible condition.

 

Re: living with the symptoms

Posted by glenn on August 5, 1999, at 12:27:51

In reply to living with the symptoms, posted by michel on August 1, 1999, at 23:44:34

> I would like to start a dialogue about some of the odd and frightening symptons of panic disorder. I believe my son would really benefit from hearing that he is not the only one who has these strange symptoms, that many times he cannot even describe. The one that bothers him most is the feeling that he hears things repeated in his head, like an echo. Another is feeling like an electric shock is going through him. Sometimes it is hard to convince him that there is not something terribly wrong with his brain . . . or rather that if it is, it's something that he can compensate. Anyone else ever feel like the lone ranger? Or I should say the wierd lone ranger? I feel very involved because I've suffered from panic disorder my whole adult life though I appear to live a very normal and actually very "Brave" life! I sometimes feel guilty, that I have "passed on" this terrible condition.
can i suggest you look at tapir, the anxiety and panic internet resource, try the pdi, panic disorder institute, dr shipko who hosts it is excellent and by the way claims a very high success rate, and you are right it can be passed on, in their view it is due to a stomach enzyme- cholecysikynin, sounds strange?!, well now we accept that many ulcres are caused by a bacteria
try - algy.com/aniety/bbs.html
all the best
glenn

 

Re: living with the symptoms

Posted by Racer on August 6, 1999, at 11:56:14

In reply to living with the symptoms, posted by michel on August 1, 1999, at 23:44:34

Dunno about panic disorder, but I often feel isolated and the only one who has ever suffered from my unique set of problems. I think that isolation is one reason it's so hard to treat most mood disorders. After all, I don't want to admit that I'm as wretched and awful as I know myself to be, so I hide a lot of things from the world - including doctors. It's a symptom of the pathology, the disease state.

Your son might benefit from something that helps me: I picture the depression as being a discrete entity, like a demon that wants me to give in, to lose myself in its evil. So many of the symptoms of depression are designed to keep the depression active, to force the depressive to continue on without relief. Things like the knowledge that no drug will help someone so messed up, that the treatments are meant for someone else, someone who deserves to feel better - unlike myself. All those feelings are the depression demon trying to survive inside me. The same goes for my eating disorder. No matter what my healthy brain says, the demons tell me it's wrong. I really am way too fat, I really am the most hideous creature on earth. Those are the messages I get from the demons. The trick for me is to learn to recognise their voices, and counter their messages with newer, healthier messages of my own.

Good luck to you both, and your son is blessed to have such a caring parent.


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