Psychology topic -- Anxiety attacks/hearing a voice

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Psychology topic -- Anxiety attacks/hearing a voice
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NineTailedFox	Jan 20 2014, 09:41 PM Post #1
Posts: 274 Group: Member Member #9,173 Joined: March 12, 2013 Gender Female Favourite Anime AOT, DBZ, Naruto What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Death Note, AOT	I posted a blog post a few minutes ago, but I think this issue is more pressing, and I'd like to hear what some of you all have to say, since some of you know a lot about psychology and the brain and such.. My girlfriend has severe anxiety and moderate depression (her depression has been less precedent lately). Here's my actual blog post. If you have any questions to clear some things up, please feel free to ask. Spoiler: click to toggle Last night, while it was great in some ways, wasn't so great in others. Her panic/anxiety attacks are getting worse and worse, and it's getting to the point where she's hearing voice(s) in her head telling her to fall off of her (fully lofted) bed and onto the floor, that "it'll be okay," etc... I've stopped a few of these attacks, but I've also just had to sit through a few of them and hold her down, keep her from hurting herself, etc. Last night was no exception. Two and a half hours later, her attack finally stopped... I had to give in at the end and let her "make it go away" in her own way (hitting herself on the head) because I was exhausted myself from holding her off and trying to not fall off of the bed myself (I was on the outside, she was against the wall). I wasn't upset or anything until I realized that I just have to let her do it this time, and I literally started balling when she did.. It was only for a minute, maybe two, but still.... I can't stand seeing her hurt, let alone seeing her hurt herself.. I told her she needs to go to the doctor or a psychiatrist to see if there's anything they can do (medicine, things to do/take to make her calm down when she's about to have an attack, etc.), but she's convinced they'll just call her crazy.... I know they won't, because I had to go to the doctor's for "hearing voices in my head" that were telling me to do things just like that before, I got on meds, and it fixed it. I'm not on any medicine anymore, and haven't been for a long time. She literally refuses to go see a doctor, but I made her realize how important and serious it was to me for her to go, so I think she's going to think about it... I hope she does decide to go.. I don't know how many more attacks of hers like that I can physically, mentally, and emotionally handle.. Emotionally and mentally, VERY few... Physically, I'm stronger than she is (I think, at least..), so holding her down I could do, just not for a very long time like last night.. Not again, at least... I'm to the point where I don't know what to do anymore. I want to help her, make her feel better, fix this.. But I simply can't. And the only way I know of helping her would be to just go to the doctor's with her, because she ends up passing out (several times) and doesn't remember anything. She thinks she just falls asleep, but she'll literally be holding her hand up to her face one second and then she just drops completely limp and I have to shake her for about 10 seconds to wake her up. It terrifies me, honestly. And it happens basically every night, and we're together almost every night. You could imagine how exhausting that can be after 4 nights.... I'm in love with her. I want to help her. I want to fix it. And it is so frustrating because I can't. Maybe tonight will be different, since last night's was so bad... Hopefully.



Meowth	Jan 22 2014, 02:18 PM Post #2
=._.= Posts: 130,670 Group: Princess Member #23 Joined: November 22, 2004 Gender Female Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya What Browser do you use? FireFox Favourite Manga Fruits Basket	I don't really know the science, but I can say I have anxiety and depression, so I have experience in how things feel and have had panic attacks, although never heard voices telling me to do something, it's usually an odd thought that comes up, thoughts can be hard to ignore, but I often have distractions like a soft toy. Onto the point about doctors, I don't know what it's like over there for mental health conditions but I had no problem with my doctor and never did I hear the word "crazy" in the process of getting help, it has helped me a great deal with medication and therapy but it hasn't gone away and many triggers for attacks still exist. One key point to remember when helping someone though is to not make it your problem as well, try not to get frustrated, it will come across in your words and body language, one of my greatest fears is to not be a burden to anyone, so if it seems like someone is worried about me or frustrated with helping me, I will just pretend that I am better and hide it from them, in the long term, that makes things worse. Here's a website with some tips: http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/tips-for-friends-family



* Ketchup Revenge	Jan 24 2014, 12:04 AM Post #3
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!" Posts: 6,083 Group: Retired Forum Moderator Member #9,012 Joined: February 9, 2013 Gender Not Specified Country Chile Favourite Anime FMA: Brotherhood, Dragon Ball, Samurai Champloo, Soul Eater, Assassination Classroom What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragon Ball, Fullmetal Alchemist, Assassination Classroom, Deadman Wonderland	I also have bad anxiety. It's not completely crippling, but it is difficult to deal with and is worse than normal person's. I've thought about seeking help with it, but I've learned to deal with it on my own. It's not perfect, but it's not as unmanageable as it once was. My anxiety has literally held me back from doing a lot of things. A lot of people have that luxury of not having to worry about a lot of things, but I don't. I've always had problems with anxiety. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Jan 24 2014, 12:04 AM.
	The vengeance is her's for as long as she stands by Him.


+ Pelador	Jan 24 2014, 12:16 AM Post #4
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	I had a panic attack once at school. I thought I was having a heart attack. Not pleasant but luckily for me a teaching assistant was with me and explained what was happening. That's also when I discovered what anxiety was. Usually my anxiety either manifests itself into either a fit of rage where I struggle to calm down for ages or I go within myself and visit my own little world. I.e my safe place. Edited by Pelador, Jan 24 2014, 12:17 AM.
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+ Steve	Jan 24 2014, 01:58 AM Post #5
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	I only read bits of that (not being lazy being r...being really tired, there's proof...tired and everything is blurry so reading much is a no no) but that doesn't sound like it's just anxiety and depression. Definitely go see a doctor the voices bit isn't very normal, anxiety can manifest itself in many ways but that could be something else that depression and anxiety is triggering. I guess you can't really force her if you threw her in a doctors office she'd probably break down mentally, I would and my anxiety isn't that bad so all you can do is convince her. For lack of a better way to put it she doesn't care about herself that much, as in she'd rather suffer than have to suffer a doctor but presumably she cares about you and her family so either you all convince her or make her feel like she has to go. For my own good I refuse to do basically everything but if someone makes me feel guilty it's doable at a basic level, so there's one angle you could try, she might be in the same boat. With this kind of problem "thinking about it" is probably more like stalling and trying to think of a way to get out of it because oh my god people/doctors, perhaps she is considering it but there's a good chance she's not. With something like anxiety it's easy to convince yourself that you don't need to talk to people or get help, what would a stranger know? If you don't have people pushing you to do something you'll probably never do it because that's the easy/safe option. But that said don't be putting a sack over her head and locking her in a room with a bunch of doctors or talk about it constantly
	Definitely not a succubus, fear not


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