Panic disorder vs OCD

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Hello everyone. Do you think panic disorder and OCD are the same? My main illness were panic attacks and insomnia. If I tried to fall asleep I got panic attacks and I was afraid to die. After a short time I used google to analyze my symptoms. Then I start becoming an extremely hypochondriac. I had panic attacks all the time and I was absolutely sure being dangerously sick.

So far so good. Since my withdrawal I never had that fear of being sick again but I started having obsessive thoughts about suicide and violence and a massive panic as well. Do you think there is a difference between this symptoms or do you think it is all the same? I'm asking because I really don't know if all my anxieties and obsessions are withdrawal related or if they are part of the panic disorder.

 

Thank you and sorry for any misspelling.

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I was pretty panicky during withdraw. Now I'm thru with withdraw and anxiety is back. In full force..I think withdraw makes anxiety worse, but I've always been an anxious person and it's back..

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OCD is composed of obsessions (thoughts) and compulsions (behaviors). Panic disorder is concerned with the worry (thought) of having a panic attack and avoidance (behavior).  The root cause of both disorders is anxiety but according to psychiatry they are different types of anxiety disorders.

 

It is common to have them both together. I have them both since childhood, along with social anxiety and agoraphobia.

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I was pretty panicky during withdraw. Now I'm thru with withdraw and anxiety is back. In full force..I think withdraw makes anxiety worse, but I've always been an anxious person and it's back..

 

For sure!

When I got down towards 20mg of V my anxiety(when it hits) was much worse than I ever remembered it pre-benzo! 

I guess that is what we know as "rebound anxiety".

I hate it!  It sucks, but it forced me into decent counseling to learn coping skills, mindfullness etc...for the 1st time in my life.  Now I just have to teach myself to grasp it. So many years of bad thinking patterns that the benzos masked.

 

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I was pretty panicky during withdraw. Now I'm thru with withdraw and anxiety is back. In full force..I think withdraw makes anxiety worse, but I've always been an anxious person and it's back..

 

Same here ferggie,

 

I can't even sit still sometimes. It's horrible and I just want it to go away!      :'(

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First of all many people get the obsessive thoughts of violence and suicide. I seem to obsess over suicide. And this is the first time in my life I have even been suicidal. I know I will never act on it, if I really thought I would do it I would ask for help. But nothing stops those thoughts and sometimes I look at objects and think how I could use them for suicide. Like I was vacuuming and look at the cord and thought I could hang myself with it. It is like I try to push the thoughts out of my mind but once I'm just thinking of whatever pops into my mind then it happens.

 

I don't why I'm rambling again and talking about me instead of answering your question. I know people with OCD and they are like germ phobia people whos houses have to be perfect and there car has to be perfect and they obsess over eating with thinking somehow you are getting your germs onto them. My niece has it she was talking about how cash was so dirty she hates having it. I pulled cash out of my pocket and rubbed it on my face. I said I love cash I don't care if it is germy or not.

 

If you don't know if you have OCD or not then you may not have it. In this cases I have seen the persons behaviors make it obvious. I hope you feel better soon.

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Panic attack initially is from over accumulated  adrenaline.  When become stressed and anxious too much, all the energy built  up inside needs to get released, and when it hits the brim of its limit, boom get a panic attack.  I think that is how it happens initially.  I never had a full blown panic attacks before but got one during this wd.  I think our body is out of whack at the moment so this happens.  However, often people bulid avoidance and anxiety over it which is going to stress the body further instead of resting it, gets caught in the loop.  If people can accept it as what it is and let it go of it instead of analyzing over it and worrying over it, stressing body further, people can heal from it by giving body a time to rest.  I know panic attack is horrible and what I just said seem hard to do. 

As far as OCD, I thought I don't have it but I guess I do.

I got panicky and insome social situation, I found myself thinking about my uncomfortable body, why am I like this, solution to get out of it, and just myriad of thoughts racing through me over and over.  More I try to stop my thoughts , worst it gets until body and mind just completely over worked.  I guess in that sense, ocd is how mind works when anxious, at least according to my experience of it.

 

Anyway try to get these 2 books. 

Dr. Claire weekes: Hope and  help for your nerve

Paul David: At last life.

 

I think Paul Davids book is probably more friendlier as it was for me.

This is like the 3rd post I'm mentioning them.

At it's worst, I thought human needs pills to survive because it seems I couldn't get out of it no matter what I tried  But after reading them and understanding them a bit, I am very hopeful.  Still work in progress, but I know I will eventually get there.