Anxiety and panic attacks thread *possible trigger for everything*
hi, there are a few threads for different things on here, but I havn't seen one for anxiety. If there is one or this is rubbish please feel free to delete.
I just throught it may be good to have one, I suffer from social anxiety and frequent panic attacks, also severe performence anxiety, thought this could be a place for us to support each other.
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or studpidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." Christopher Hitchens
'When words fail, music speaks'
I am transsexual and homoromantic and proud to be.
i have panic attacks and anxiety when it comes to normal day to day situations eg.college i havent been like dignosed but my mental health worker and and a specialist in mental health have noticed i suffer from these
and na this sounds like a great thread to do
young girl its alright your tears will soon dry your soon be free to fly
she's falling from grace , she's all over the place..............
dont get me started on anxiety - i suffer from social phobia and its absolutely horrible. i have to keep my blinds closed all day just to be sure no one can see me or else id have a complete melt down.
I have agoraphobia, which is slowly getting better. At my worst I couldnt leave the house, or only to walk to the end of the road and back.
It's not open spaces I'm scared of, it's leaving my "safe place" ie my house because I worry I will have a panic attack outside. I am also scared of being in situations I cant leave ie the cinema, theatre, trains, buses, restaurants, doctors surgery etc however I can now use trains quite well and sit in cafes with certain people.
I haven't actually had a panic attack since the new year.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks quite a lot. At worst they leave me curled up in bed, shaking in fear and being physically sick.
They're truly horrible things. I find myself drinking or taking diazepam (not even prescribed for me) to cope, which actually makes me feel more anxious the next day and it's just a nasty vicious circle.
I'd have said anxiety is a part of my personality (I was an incredibly anxious child, having panic attacks by the age of eight) but my psychologist said I wasn't born that way; I needed anxiety to survive.
As a teenager I suffered quite badly with agoraphobia, though that's much better now. It's generally only a problem when other aspects of my mental health are bad, or if I have to go out with a large group of people or any other situation that I can't control. Which is funny because in my teens I couldn't go out at all without physically clinging to my mum (except to school) but now I find it easier to be out alone.
I have social anxiety that, when it's bad is terrible, but when it's not, is not too bad.
At the moment I find myself waking up with panic attacks. They're not what I consider (for me) full-blown panic attacks, with the hyperventilating, but I shake, have a fast pulse, find breathing difficult and am nauseous and sweaty. And there's no reason why. I wake up with them, and consequently am finding it really difficult to get up and start the day.
I'm also finding that I feel sick all the time, especially after eating, which is making eating difficult and upsetting.
Have started reading Paul McKenna's book "Control Stress" which comes with a relaxation CD. Paul McKenna is a well-known psychologist who has had a lot of success helping people with all sorts of various problems.
I'm happy to have this thread here - I was thinking of making one myself, but I didn't want to upset anyone... Yeah. I've been feeling lonely a lot recently.
Until I was half way through Year 11, I honestly thought my anxiety was normal. I was just convinced that everyone felt the same, but you didn't talk about it. Honestly. I was reffered to do CBT before sixth form. Then back to councelling. Then on medication. Then back to CBT. And then god knows what will happen next.
It's the little things you have to fight against every day. My councellor says I should be really happy with how I'm functioning for my levels of anxiety - socially, acadmically. He says I shouldn't focus on how walking to the bus stop every day is a bloody battle - he says I should be happy I'm still in school. I know he's right, but I'm fed up of fighting. I'm fed up of not giving up. Because I've walked on those streets for the last 17 years, and my heart still stops when I pass someone on the street.
Good Days and Bad Days. Just now, more and more bad days. I don't know why. Maybe it's just when you have to start admitting to yourself things aren't as 'fine' as you've been convincing yourself they are.
sorry to hear people are struggling with anxiety, I really hate it.I miss uni because I'm too scared and cant even get out my room and when I do go in I dont do the work very well because I am shaking and constantly looking around me. I hate it when I have a panic attack in a class because I always feel like I am disturbing everybody, even though some of them are getting used to it now, the first time it happened they called an ambulance even when I said i didnt need one. Being a musician is not good when I have severe performance anxiety, most people get nervous but I get terrified even about little things like just performing in front off a class of 10 people.
hope people are doing ok. *hugs*
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or studpidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." Christopher Hitchens
'When words fail, music speaks'
I am transsexual and homoromantic and proud to be.
I think this thread is great. Thank you for starting it.
Panic attacks for me have always come and gone, but now I'm getting them more and more recently, even while driving where I have to pull over or in class where I end up in the bathroom in case I throw up. Most of the time I stay at home thinking I'm having a heart attack and am going to die. I'm not particularly stressed with school right now, so it's probably something in my head/emotions that I'll figure out sooner or later.
I've always been an anxious person, but then several events happened between the ages of 10 and 16 that eventually led to me having a long drawn out nervous breakdown and eventually being diagnosed with anxiety disorder when i was hospitalised in 2006 at the age of 18.
I always go into denial that i suffer from anxiety disorder, especially when I am 'perfectly fine', because i always think that it wasn't as bad as i make out.
Which led to this year, me getting to the point where i was saying 'yeah this is a problem, but I AM getting over it.'
Then in october i was Sexually assaulted and it's all gone downhill, I'm having panic attacks daily, in fact having a couple of bad ones that i have 'dissapeared' for hours on end and just am generally struggling. Which basically now has me in... to some extent, denial about anxiety, I know i'm not dealing with stuff, but i am scared of dealing with it, because it will have to get worse for it to get better.
Sorry that is complete and utter rambalings that make no sense....
Living on this thread sounds like a good idea.
Can i ask a question?
I was talking to my councellor the other day, and he asked me why I felt the need to keep 'pushing myself.' 'Throwing' myself in the deep end.
Because I'll be scared, bloody scared, but I'll go out and make a point to go out and do things that push me to the limits. The things I know will provoke my anxiety.
i said: because I want to believe if you keep facing your fears, they'll go away. I believe that. I do. Isn't that how it's meant to work? Exposure? The Anxiety Curve?
It's just that's not working, and that makes me so, so angry, so down. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I keep pushing and pushing myself, and I'm still scared of everything, every day. I never feel like I've achieved anything, or progressed anywhere.
And that makes me feel as if I have no chance of getting better, and it's all for nothing.
Is it just me who does that?
Sorry. I don't think this post makes sense.
I suffer from social anxiety and frequent panic attacks, also severe performance anxiety.
I suffer from the same. Just discovered this thread.
Hi (:
I sit at home and do nothing and never go out. What a fun life.
Also, Sunshineinthecity - yeah exposure is the way. But what my therapist always says to me is 'bend but don't break'. As in, expose yourself but not too much. Don't push yourself too much, you've got to take it slowly. I understand your thinking but 'throwing yourself in at the deep end' doesn't seem to really work for this kind of thing.
I hope things get better for you.
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
I am the man who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
I have an exam tomorrow and really worried I'm going to have a panic attack in it, they should be sitting me near the door so I can leave if I do have one, but then everyone will stare and will be horrible.
how is everyone doing? *hugs*
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or studpidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." Christopher Hitchens
'When words fail, music speaks'
I am transsexual and homoromantic and proud to be.
I hope the exam goes well. Try to push all of your worries out of your mind and just focus on what you have to do. If you start to feel anxious, try deep breathing. In for seven counts and out for eleven, repeat until you start to feel calm.
The thing I hate most about my anxiety is how much it's holding me back. I had to drop out of college because of it and now I can't work either. It's so isolating, I can't see friends and I spend a lot of time home alone. Although I do try to get out as much as possible, it's got better in that respect, I can go shopping in town and stuff.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
I always have an excuse ready. Always.
Why did you leave the room?
Toilet.
I've been feeling sick.
I have a cold.
Because I always think that then it doesn't matter if people see you, because you're being 'normal.'
Good luck with the exam :)
Had a panic attack today in a furniture store in another state and my mom wanted to continue looking around while I was crouched behind a cabinet hyperventilating and saying I was dizzy. There were too many people around. This hasn't happened to me in a long time. I'm getting anxious about my anxiety coming back full force.
I hope everyone is hanging in there. Thinking of you guys.
just been in the doctors waiting for my swine flu jab and waiting room was very busy, had a bad panic attack, eventually got called in after waiting for an hour and was hyperventilating a lot nurse was being nice, gave me the jab and then let me sit in the room for a while to calm down, then the doctor came in, the one who i am seeing for my depression and stuff and she was trying to calm me down, telling me to breathe slower and stuff, they were all being very nice but I got the feeling, and have done before, that they were annoyed at me for wasting there time and that when i wouldnt slow my breathing down when they were telling me that it was my fault i was having one.
sorry to rant, just feeling really shaky now and freaked out.
how is everyone?
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or studpidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." Christopher Hitchens
'When words fail, music speaks'
I am transsexual and homoromantic and proud to be.
How did your exam go Frenchhorn? I'm sorry you had a panic attack at the doctor's I know how embarassing it is and I always end up feeling horribly about myself and telling myself how i'm irritating everyone and imposing and causing ****.
Ah yes a fun life.
I don't get panic attack's that often anymore, thankfully. I have a generalised anxiety disorder that is really intense and I struggle with on a minute to minute basis during they day. Like some others have said I always just thought it was me, how I was built. So much so that the first time I sent to see a pdoc for depression I didn't even tell her about the anxiety or ask her to help me with it and it was 'just me'.
I hate it. It drains me and takes away my quality of life. :(
Anyway hope you don't mind me contributing to the thread.
Ce.
