My husband and I fought a bitter divorce and custody battle for the children in 2009. I began to have bouts of anxiety, fear, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and an absolute disinterest in life, my children and profession. I am a lawyer and my state of mind began to effect my day to day routine.
In the interests of my children and profession, I took a long break from work. I wanted to concentrate on myself, get my health back and return to some semblance of normalcy.
I consulted a psychologist who began to work with me in dealing with my issues and made me to work on a few emotional exercises. All my distressing symptoms began to slowly get better.
After almost 6 months of therapy, I was confident of returning back to work. The only thing that was troubling me were the unexpected Panic Attacks that did not go away even after therapy.
I experienced sheer anxiety, fear, palpitations, sweats, dryness of the mouth, inability too perform simple every day chores, sleeplessness, and physical restlessness.
There was no pattern and predictability to these symptoms. These episodic symtoms took a toll on my work, family and social interactions.
I sought help from my family physician and he prescribed antidepressants and sleep medications. These did not help at all. I began to feel drowsy and below par.
I was talking about this with my partner at my law firm who knew about my personal situation. She suggested I try homeopathy and mentioned that it had helped a family member cope with a nervous breakdown.
I was hesitant in the begining as I did not know about the system and also did not want to try any untested new age medicine. My bouts of anxiety and panic attacks began to increase in frequency and began to last longer and longer.
In desperation, I began to search for a Homeopathic consultant online. I chanced on Dr. Nanduri’s website and having noted his education in the United States and the glowing testimonials, decided to call him in India.
Dr. Nanduri, in our first telephone conversation, appeared to be very empathic and asked me to complete the consultation form on his website. A few more telephone conversations happened after I sent in the consultation form.
Finally, Dr. Nanduri, after satisfying himself that he got all the information he needed, drew a plan of treatment. He began to mail medicines to me to the US and followed up with me every 2 weeks on Skype video.
This was a new experience to me as this was the first time that I was on a therapy with a doctor who was half way around the world without having to physically meet him!
Dr. Nanduri put me on 3 month course of medicines and asked me to maintain an event log to note what triggered my panic attacks.
I noticed from the very first month after starting his medicines that I began to sleep more soundly and was more refreshed then before. My ability to focus and concentrate became sharper, my general health (and family an social interactions) improved.
My anxiety and panic attacks began to very slowly decrease in frequency and intensity from the 2nd month on. It’s now the 3rd and last month of the course of treatment and there is definitely and improvement in my mental state.
Dr. Nanduri is suggesting that I continue his treatment for another 3 months and I am absolutely fine with it. I cannot believe that I am now so much better in 3 months!