Hi from last 3 years I am not able to live a normal life. When I am alone I think a lot of negative things. Sometimes in my friends I feel lonely. Its like I am not able to breathe properly. While driving a car or sitting in a car I feel the same. Sometimes when I walk or in standing I am having the fear of falling. I feel thirsty always. I need water anytime while walking or sitting or driving. I hav taken shelcal xl 25 for 1 n half years in 2014 to mid of 2015 bcaz of the heart palpitation. But it has gone away. But still I feel depressed and can not able to think properly. I have done my ecg test also but its normal. I need 1 person every time near me. What should I do. I know that its just stress n depression but I can not handle it properly. Kindly suggest asap.

Ms. Kalpana RamanPsychologist7yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user I can understand how problematic it would be when we lack attention and focus at work due to the racing negative thoughts. One noticeable thing is that the negative thoughts are usually automated in nature. There is a new concept regarding positive intelligence and attitude. IT is difficult to practice but definitely with assistance from psychologist within few sessions you would be able to rule out all your apprehensions and worry. Shelcal is not related to these symptoms that you have mentioned and let s do a preliminary analysis of your intensity of symptoms and decide whether any medication is required if at all but a sincere advice would be to engage yourself in psychotherapy sessions. Stress is meant to lead to a feeling aspect of fear which in turn activates our anxiety switch and thus respiratory rate, heart rate, BP rate etc goes to a toss but these symptoms are definitely manageable. IF any difficulty, please feel free to contact or consult us through video consultations if you do not live in Delhi so that we can engage you firstly in educating you about your symptoms and further plan of intervention using CBT (modification of maladaptive automated thoughts) and Mindfulness based stress reduction training. Hope it is useful. 

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