flowmom | need to commit to myself

[flowmom]

CG, thanks for your post. You're on the right track with many of your interpretations...but I'm still working on the solutions. I've only had the occasional anxiety attack and I really feel for you that you've had to deal with that a lot. I don't have any clinical anxiety condition, but I do feel that - for me - a lot of what feels like depression is actually masked, diffuse anxiety. I would easily fit the clinical depression criteria, but of course that is largely situational ("normal" abandonment symptoms). My sister did find that during a huge life crisis she was dealing with what seemed like depression, with a lot of underlying anxiety...AD helped her with that and that's why she's encouraging me to try it.

Last night I re-experienced one of the unpleasant symptoms that I think might have come from the Zoloft: lying in bed feeling alarmed by how unnaturally loudly my heart seemed to be pounding.