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So fed up. When will this anxiety ever go away ??

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elaine75237
elaine75237

Hi all, I'm so fed up with this anxiety. I think my health anxiety is by far the worst. I've tried to ignore it, accept it, live with it, welcome it, say bring it on I just feel rotten. The pain in my chest and that choking feeling along with the pressure in my head has been here for the last 2 days, I just feel I can't cope with it any longer. It usually comes and goes and I try to put up with it, but it's really getting me down. I don't want to go back to the total panic I was in before but it feels like that might happen. I sometimes think all the therapy in the world couldn't help me. Just feel so upset by it all.frown

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  • lisalisa67
    lisalisa67 elaine75237

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    Talk therapy is not really that wonderful for panic disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy and biofeedback is much better. If you have ocd as well i wonder if hyonotherapy and visusalization would be beneficial. You need to use that ocd for the good here and somehow focus on healing and being symptom free.maybe a hyonosis can aid with that. I gave up in traditional therapy stuff, theres a whole world out there and tons of other avenues to learn about to help manage anxiety disorders. I do wonder if a pepcid would help you a lot here, anxiety does cause reflux and those symptoms can be reflux(gerd). It gets frustrasting.it really does but you have to hang in there and stay strong.
    • lisalisa67
      lisalisa67

      Posted

      Get a notebook and sit down. Wrote down what the perfect life would be for oyu. Be as detailed as you possibly can.go into as best details as you know how too. Delve in to relationships, emotional needs and desires, landscape of actual place you see yourself, everything and every area possible. This will take a long time, even a few days or more. Its soley and only to be filled with ehat you need and want from your life. When you have completed it, and their is no rush..i think you will find the answer to when this anxiety will go away or be managed. (Curing and healing arent exactly the same thing). Dont even care if the thiughts are realistic or not this is what you feel you need and want okay. Its not corny its mind blowing in the end when you reread it.
    • Swinging_Sister
      Swinging_Sister lisalisa67

      Posted

      funny, i used to do this ( unknowingly) when i was about 20 years old. i would sit on my bed and write out everthing that was bothering me and what the worst case scenario would be. i would indeed feel better at the end. and many times come to the true reason for most of the anxiety. i wonder why i stopped this????  lol
  • lynne82155
    lynne82155 elaine75237

    Posted

    You have to learn techniques to help you cope and not let it take over your life.

    Anxiety loves fear

    Stay Strongcool

  • kp1979
    kp1979 elaine75237

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    I know how you feel. One thing goes away and then I seem to have something else to latch on to.
  • Swinging_Sister
    Swinging_Sister elaine75237

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    i could not take it anymore, could not leave my house. 40 mg of prozac has been  a great deal of help to me.....
  • ben37026
    ben37026 elaine75237

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    I sometimes feel like I can't breath if I concentrate on it . it makes me panic. I hit rock bottom last year and the only thing that stopped me from ending it all was my three year old daughter. I started suffering with anxiety in 2014 and it's ruining my life. If I can't calm this down or control it is don't know what I'm going to do. I can't carry on with this . I wouldn't wish this condition on my worst enemy. What an awful thing to have to deal with. Thank God there's people out there who understand

    • brenda54254
      brenda54254 ben37026

      Posted

      Same exact thing I went through, Amen to that. Only God can.
  • brenda54254
    brenda54254 elaine75237

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    Hello, I'm sorry to heir what your going through. I have suffered from anxiety for a little over 5 years. Still till this day I do not except it but I've learned how to live with it. I've lost my job, and life because of it. I chose not to take medication reason being it will control my life if I stop taking it and I do not want my body to need it. I've prayed everday and focus on meeting new people friends and keep my mind busy very busy, and sometimes it doesn't still go away but it helps and makes me feel normal again. My big sadness is I have a daughter and there is certain things I can't go and do. But my faith is strong that I know for a fact this one day will go away. I'm very religious and know that God has brought me this far and has taken care of me above it all. I've might of lost my job and can't do certain things but God holds my hand through it all.

    • Swinging_Sister
      Swinging_Sister brenda54254

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      i just wanted to say about the medication......  it is not proven that you have to take it forever. it is good to take it, and then work on your feelings and fears, see the things you are really able to do, and then you will know. it would be really good to have cbt therapy with it. you could even do a low dose. the prozac is not a benzodiazepine or anything like that.  it is a very low dose medication.  i just could not live with not being able to get out of the bed any longer, and so i tried it. my doc says i have a form of OCD which is called Pure O. It is obcessive disorder that only effects your thoughts. and it is miserable. my brain keeps learning how to live with these tumination of thoughts that create the anxiety. Having this slow down a bit, it is now making it easier to get out of the house, go to things for my kids etc.....  you may want to research that Pure O diagnosis,  i was just shocked and had never even though about it.   good luck to all.....

       

  • pam01968
    pam01968 elaine75237

    Posted

    Hi Elaine I am dealing with horrific anxiety just wandering how you are doing with your anxiety
  • motogp1000
    motogp1000 elaine75237

    Posted

    Hey there,   36yr old male here just saying i've been dealing with mine for 3yrs.

    My anxiety has started into weird phobias and fears which make no sense.   I trying coping techniques from a pschologist that help with grounding that I hope will work.  Im also starting on lexapro. 

    Sometimes we just need help.   I fought against medicine and therapy up until now.  It got so bad, I didnt know how much more I could hang on.   Still here, still fighting and with the addtional help Im hoping for recovery.

  • Pickle-help
    Pickle-help elaine75237

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    Look I have the same thing. Although I'm still in school. If you have left school than your lucky, no worrying about feeling sick in school. I really need help, I have really bad anxiety sickness at a young age. I'm scared to do activities I normally enjoy or go out places. I'm not sure if I have a phobia of feeling/being sick or it's just an anxiety. It annoyes me, my friends do understand what I'm going through. My parents don't understand either, I'm on medication for my stomach acid. My doctor thinks I have stomach problems, no anxiety, but I'm 100% sure I do. At school we have a place to go to if you have a problem. The first day I experienced my sickness I went, they talked to me, than I went back to class for the whole day, surprisingly I was ok that day. But than it went down hill, I started feeling nervous about school, and constantly felt ill. Than I preciedid to go there during lessons when I felt ill. It made me feel better there, but I was missing so mutch school they told me not to come in. My parents had told me to stay in lessons, even if I feel sick not to go to the nurse. That worried me even more, I have depression and anger too, the whole package! It's been about 2 months since I first had it. It got better for a bit, not feeling ill. But recently it good bad, it was a Friday before a week off, I went to school normally, feeling nervous though. Anyway I was ok until lunch I felt ill, hot, worried and I got that feeling, i couldn't eat. So I went to the school nurse, even though I knew my parents would be angry, I didn't care. I felt really bad. My dad picked me up, but the weid thing is , I used to feel fine at home and not at school, now it's constant, not just school. I forgot to mention it effects me the most on Mondays, I think because you get back from a break .. please help, no one listens..... I'm only young , and deserves freedom in my life..

    Please help

    I don't know what's going on,

    Harriet

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