Hi Briana,
Is the Pope Catholic? :lol: I’ve had enough anxiety to feed an army and I’m dealing with it right now as I navigate my way through another viscious MAV attack (self-induced unfortunately). The whole dizziness, MAV, anxiety thing is a real mess. But from what I have experienced and what others say here, and what is in the science literature, migraine and anxiety are comporbid conditions. That is, if you have migraine you probably have issues with anxiety too – and probably prone to depression.
Have a look at this article:
When I get a MAV attack like now, it ramps up anxiety in a big way. When people are new to this condition they fret over what’s happening on top of the physiological stuff. We’ve all had that and go through it.
Understanding your own personal anxieties and learning to not react to MAV is a very difficult yet critical lesson to learn in my opinion. Constant stressing over this disease simply feeds it and either makes it worse or perpetuates the symptoms. And so courses such as MBSR are really useful in teaching you about this. I have to be honest and say that I haven’t been doing the mediatation like I should be but I am today and am meeting up with the old group tonight by the looks of it. I really need it now considering I have been off an SSRI for only 3 weeks and have had a racing heart most of the day.
Let me know how you go with whatever you choose.
Scott 