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What should I do about my panic/anxiety/depression symptoms?
I'm a 25 year old master's student trying to finish up my thesis. I have had procrastination problems all my life and though I thought I was on track I am feeling more and more like I'm running out of time and am getting really scared and depressed.Lately I've had a very hard time doing ANYTHING at all, especially since I feel like whenever I try to get something done I work my a off and I feel like I don't get anywhere, no matter how hard I try. So then I just quit and don't do anything for awhile, and I feel like I can't function. Then when I finally start to try again, again I get nowhere and I give up some more. I feel like I'm so behind and I've started to have frightening and irrational thoughts. I'm already past the deadline of when I'm supposed to hand in the next draft of my thesis and I'm terrified that my advisor is going to be furious with me and I'm convinced that " they" are going to take away my fellowship that I got for a Ph.D. study later this summer. I'm convinced that I'm a failure and I suck and I don't deserve the fellowship or to go on for a Ph.D. and I'm sure that people are going to " discover" this and then take it away from me and I'll have no future. I know these thoughts are somewhat irrational but I feel like they're taking over my life. I have been trying to fix my procrastination problem for months now and I feel like I've gotten NOWHERE. I have been on medication for depression, found out I had sleep apnea and am trying to get used to the BiPAP machine they gave me, but it's hard to do and I'm freaking out because I feel like I don't have time to get used to it and I want it to start working perfectly RIGHT NOW, but it won't. I've had four panic attacks in the past 5 days where I start crying uncontrollably, screaming, choking, almost throwing up, hyperventilating, shaking, can't focus, etc. I am NOT suicidal nor have I ever been suicidal. I just want to get better but I have no idea how to get any help. I'm wondering if I should go to a clinic or hospital but I'm afraid about the legal issues or red tape involved, plus I feel guilty like I'm just using it as an escape mechanism to get sympathy or more time to finish my thesis. That makes me feel like a slack off, lazy failure again and just makes me more upset and makes it harder to get any work done. I feel like a frozen zombie half the time and I'm completely miserable. I keep telling myself it will get better but it just keeps getting worse.I keep thinking it can't get any worse but it does. Lately I've stopped even trying to think things are going to get better because it feels like some kind of a jinx, because every time I start to feel motivated or like things are finally taking a turn for the positive, it never lasts and things only get worse again. Does anyone have any advice for this? Any way for me to get motivated, stop being scared, etc? Has anyone had similar issues? Is this just " normal" for someone trying to finish up a thesis? I'm going to talk to my psychologist tomorrow but tonight I'm trying to work on my thesis some more but I just feel like I can't do it, and I'm desperate for any kind of advice support as soon as possible. I'm embarrassed to talk to friends family about this because I don't want anybody to find out how behind I am right now.Please help Okay I know this has probably been a pointless thing to ask seeing as I'm going to see my psychologist tomorrow but I just needed to vent get this out in the open, I don't know. Anyway, thanks...
Best antidepressant for Anxiety/Depression symptoms without sexual dysfunction?
Currently Taking Prozac, and have very little desire. Tried adding Wellbutrin and could not tolerate it. I'm a male.I know Wellbutrin is a popular add on, but I really felt un nerved and could not tolerate the feeling for more than a few days. This was on only the 150 xl dose
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