Re:Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling con...
by skylanh on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:37PM
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I had a critical acute stressor a few years ago, I wont describe the situation, but the symptoms were:
- panic attacks
- waking up into a panic attack; imagine sleeping, then waking hyperventilating, shivering, and for lack of a better word "freaking out"
- sleep disturbances
- periodic severe emotional disturbance
- inability to remove the stressors, and critically, I had to increase the stressors involved as it was time critical
I was able to take two weeks off from work, and I took escitalopram.
I didn't find escitalopram to be ... a game changer, but it did allow me to "decide" how I was going to feel, and if I felt I was going to have a panic attack, I could head that off through feedback and self aware thinking.
- panic attacks
- waking up into a panic attack; imagine sleeping, then waking hyperventilating, shivering, and for lack of a better word "freaking out"
- sleep disturbances
- periodic severe emotional disturbance
- inability to remove the stressors, and critically, I had to increase the stressors involved as it was time critical
I was able to take two weeks off from work, and I took escitalopram.
I didn't find escitalopram to be ... a game changer, but it did allow me to "decide" how I was going to feel, and if I felt I was going to have a panic attack, I could head that off through feedback and self aware thinking.