Nose Problem Related to Mental Illness Posted: 07-15-04 19:26pm
I am a really bad way but just dont know
what I have as there are so many diferent
symptons. I feel bad the majority of the
time especially when travelling on the
underground or in the office. I just feel
worse and worse as the day goes on until I
am in a mood and cannot think clearly. I
suffer from hayfever, I feel like I am not
getting enough oxygen, dry inside my head,
nauseous, anxious, stressed to the point
where I don’t want to talk to anyone and
cannot focus properly. I can lose my
co-ordination and sometimes have feeling
of vertigo and it is clearly evident to
others that there is a problem, I have
this overall feeling of worthlessness.
Any little thing that I don’t like at work
will leave me fuming inside.
Eventually I start to think about the
negative things in my life, the injustice,
bad things that have happened to me in the
past. I cannot help but feel depressed
note I am taking antidepressants called
venlafaxine 150mg. It is definitely true
that I don’t like the job I am doing but
it is easy and I shouldn’t feel this way
just because I don’t like a job. If I
think about it I have always had these
symptoms but I think they have gradually
got worse as I have got older and now
these symptoms are unbearable. I feel
totally isolated. When I look back on
stressful moments that I have experienced
in my previous career when I worked as a
graphic designer I think these relate to
the symptoms that I have been getting. It
takes me a long time to recover from these
days and when I wake the next morning
after a days work I already feel stressed
and incredibly tense because I have not
given myself enough time to recover. I
feel because there is not enough oxygen
getting to my brain I cannot function
properly which makes me feel mentally
unwell, unable to cope in normal
situations. People have asked me if I
have a problem with my eyes occasionally
when I have these symptoms as I have
trouble focussing. When I look in the
mirror at work I appear pale, my eyes feel
and look dry and unhealthy. My throat is
very dry and a little sore. I drink
plenty of water but this doesn’t make me
feel any better it might do for a few
seconds but not overall. I feel like
something
needs to be flushed out of my head. I
have now lost most of my friends because I
cannot cope with this illness and people.
My girlfriend has left me, she even said
that I am not a
man because of the way I have been feeling
which was very damaging to my feelings.
Note I am writing this letter after a
recent nose operation. I have been
waiting a whole year for this septoplasty
operation which I believe hasn’t made any
difference I am still completey blocked.
The left side of my nose doesnt function
properly. My nose feels and looks so thin
it will never inflate like it used to when
I do exercise. The top left side of my
nose next to my eye is incredibly
vunerable and sore it is this area that
has given me the most concern yet the
surgeons never touched it when I had the
operation and when I told my ear nose and
throat doctor about this area he said he
couldnt see anything wrong. I am 100%
convinced that there is damage to my nose
there which has been ignored or missed on
examination by the doctor. It just
doesn’t feel or look right. You can even
see the dark unhealthy marks it leaves
behind there. The skin on the bottom
left hand side of my nose feels like a
clump of hard dead skin . It actually
makes a clicking noise if I bend it. It
also feels dry, tight and weak around my
right and left temples and there is a lot
of crackling sounds in my ears when I open
my mouth wide as if to yawn. I feel like
I am burning up under the skin of my face.
I have used nasal sprays but I dont think
this alone will make any difference. I am
really scared please can anyone help.