YOUR ANXIETY TOOLKIT
I HAD been suffering from frightening, debilitating panic attacks almost daily for months before a concerned friend asked me how it was going with my “stress”.
Those who experience panic attacks know it’s not stress. Panic attacks are terrifying and you live in constant fear of the next one, and the next, and the next.
When it was at its worst, I’d wake up in a frightful state and the panic would taunt me all day long. Some days I would come close to having an attack, the panic building like gas in a shaken cooldrink bottle while I tried to get on with taking care of my newborn.
I also suffer from depression and had been prescribed a breastmilk-inducing medication that’s also used as an antidepressant, so I wasn’t worried about using it.
Fast forward a few weeks and the medication hadn’t made any difference to my milk production, so I simply stopped taking it – without informing my gynaecologist.
It was only later that I discovered if
