Just a picture to make people remember that the world is a beautiful place and things around us can be seen as very funny. Try and smile/laugh every single day, even if the laugh is forced, it releases chemicals in your brain and your brain does not know the difference between forced and real laughter so it will still release happy chemicals.

Paroxetine day 2.

So second day on Paroxetine. Thought I would take half a tablet instead of whole because of being sick yesterday. Good news is that I wasn't sick today but still really anxious all day so that

Challenge your thoughts

Challenge the negative thoughts which occur.  For example, you leave your home and suddenly you are thinking I need to go home because otherwise I will die, or something will happen to me. Challenge these. Will you really die if you went out, or would something happen to you. Has it ever? You need to acknowledge

Things to do which help

These are techniques I have picked up over the years to help me fight this anxiety or make me feel better when feeling really bad.

When having a bad anxiety attack/panic attack you need to distract yourself. I try everything from using my laptop to playing games. If you feel a little better then start to do some breathing techniques such as breath in 8 seconds through your nose and out 16 seconds through your mouth. This will decrease your heart rate. The thoughts you need to be saying are: I can only be in a hightened state of panic for a short amount of time so it will go away, it can not harm me and I will not die or go crazy ( big one for me as I always think I will flip out).

One of the things you need to set your mind to,

Day one on paroxetine

So started taking paroxetine 20mg today. Took one this morning. It didn't have much affect until late afternoon evening, where I was violently sick and then again an hour or so later so that nothing is left inside of me. Also felt extremely anxious and horrible. I have heard with all drugs, especially this kind, it gets worse before it gets better so here's hoping and seeing how it is tomorrow. I will be taking a lower dosage tomorrow though. Think will take half, so 10mg, and see how that goes before upping it to 20mg.