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Severe anxiety and worry help?!

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rebecca34540
rebecca34540

I have suffered with anxiety since i was about 15 - although ive always been a worrier since a child, it was accelerated when my mother had a brain tumour in my teens, she survived but it changed her as a person and also me. I am 31 now. It comes and goes, I can have months where it isnt at as bad and then BAM it hits me again.

I'm having a really bad time of late. The past year or so my worrying has gotten out of control, I am making myself ill. I worry about EVERYTHING. I hear sirens and im phoning every member of my family to make sure they are ok. I check on my kids about 10 times over night (they are 11&9) I worry about what people think of me, to the point where i play back all my conversations I have had. I am scared to let my kids play out with their friends. My thoughts take over my mind and I start thinking of really dark thoughts, it consumes me. My heart is constantly racing and i just feel so exhausted mentally. It's really starting to hold me back, I never want to go out anymore just want to be at home in my bed where i feel safe. I go to work and the slightest thing panics me there too. On the surface people would not have a clue as i hide it as best i can but i am a wreck and i just feel like i cant be doing my body any good with all this worry. I have always suffered with anxiety I have had medication many times and i just feel like nothing works, but this worrying is new terroritory for me. I feel like I am shaking inside, I cant explain. I'm even too nervous to ring a doctor. On top of all this I have severe health anxiety too. Has anyone experienced this?

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  • Yogi10
    Yogi10 rebecca34540

    Posted

    Hi,

    Your message sounds like I could have written it myself, it's a horrible place to be and its exhausting. My kids are 8 and 10 so similar age to yours too. At the moment I take 40mg citalopram and I am having intensive CBT, i have only had one session of that so far so hopefully it will start to help after a few and they are going to focus on the health anxiety as that seems to be the most severe problem i am experiencing at the moment. Are you currently taking any medication/receiving any support? is there someone at work who can support you there. Sorry i have not really offered advice but sometimes it helps to know you are not the only one

    • rebecca34540
      rebecca34540 Yogi10

      Posted

      Thank you so much for the reply, just knowing your not alone is help in itself. I have an amazing partner, but he has never suffered with anxiety so he just doesnt understand. I could go on and on but i would be here all day the list of issues i have is endless. Before the pandemic i was on 100mg sertraline, but i stopped taking them towards the end of 2020 as i ran out and because of everything that was going on Ive just never gone back. I'll be honest though, i just feel like anti depressants dont work for me, they help with moods etc but my actual thoughts are still there 😦 I work myself up thinking about going back to the docs. Im not open enough, nobody at work knows because I dont like to talk about it. xx

  • vicky29410
    vicky29410 rebecca34540

    Posted

    Hi hun

    I started with Health anxiety back in August....never had it before....and it spiralled...back and to the Docs...nothing wrong etc...had various hospital scans ...blood tests ...nothing at all wrong.

    My anxiety has gone from bad to me not socialsing...i cant go outside...i have this fear and dont know where its come from. I miss my old life.

    Have started on 50mg sertrline and now gone up to 100mg 13 days ago.....you say this didnt help you at all with anxiety?

    Love Vicky xx

  • stephen27953
    stephen27953 rebecca34540

    Posted

    hi Rebecca if you tell yourself a thousand times you control this it doesn't control you it'll help. in 2018 when you found a brain tumor the size of an orange in my wife and it affected me and my daughter much the same way the symptoms started showing up 6 months after surgery. and still come and go today I'm sorry you're going through this the only thing I know that works is therapy and faith medications didn't really help me good luck you can beat this started in your mind and it'll be beaten in your mind.

  • sasical72
    sasical72 rebecca34540

    Posted

    Hi Rebecca,

    I could have written your post myself. I was exactly like you a few months back but I'm quite a lot better now.

    Things that have helped me: following a routine and above all exercise. Every day at 6 in the morning I do 30-45 mins on my bike.

  • nicole0003
    nicole0003 rebecca34540

    Posted

    this is me exactly .. especially wanting to be in bed to feel safe.. i have a 12 and 8 year old and im constantly worrying.. lately ive bene trying to pray alot and leave it in gods hands but its easier said then done.. i worry so much and health anxiety is so bad... ive been so stressed lately that im getting palpitations.. and that stresses me put even more and i think the worst.. it probably doesnt help that i dont exercise but i have no motivation.... its like when one symptoms leaves another comes and im back to worrying.. its a constant cycle im trying to break.. i worry about all my family.. i worry about my mom and dad .. so the stress is constant but yes i feel thr same as you

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