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Anxiety Disorder?
I've had problems with anxiety for a long time. When I was younger it was mostly just on certain occasions but as I got older it started to get worse. Sometime in late high school, around my junior and senior year, it really started to get bad, but I didn't talk to my parents about it because I thought it wasn't a huge deal and I would just be making a big deal out of nothing.
However, I'm a freshman in college now and my anxiety is at an all-time high. It's gotten to the point where there honestly isn't a day I'm not feeling anxious for one reason or another, and at times I can't even figure out why I'm anxious.
Last semester I finally talked to my mom about it and we saw my general physician, who prescribed me Zoloft and basically just sent me off. It took me a while to finally start taking it consistently enough to tell whether it was working, and honestly it isn't helping at all (in fact my anxiety seems to just be getting worse) so I'm going to go back as soon as I can to see about changing it.
My biggest problem with this is that my doctor didn't really tell me anything other than that she would be giving me medicine to help with my anxiety. Now, I'm very interested in psychology and have read a lot about Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I once found a list of symptoms and I have literally almost every single one. However, I don't want to just self-diagnose and start saying "Oh yeah, I have GAD" without a proper diagnosis, because I know a lot of people do that. At the same time, if I *do* have a legitimate anxiety disorder, it would be nice (for myself) to just... Have a name to put to it? What I mean by that is although it wouldn't change much, it would make me feel a bit better to at least be able to explain to people "I'm sorry for acting strangely, I have an anxiety disorder." But my physician didn't tell me anything about whether I have a legitimate disorder or, I don't know, this is just relatively normal anxiety?
I'm not even entirely sure what I'm asking in this post haha. Maybe for some advice or opinions? Should I just outright ask my physician if she thinks I have an actual anxiety disorder? Is it nornal to have high levels of anxiety but *not* have an actual disorder? It really just felt like my physician wasn't taking me seriously when I tried to explain my concerns and was kind of like "here's some medicine, have fun." (Don't get me wrong, I love her and she's a family friend since she works with my dad, this just kind of bothered me.)
I don't think this post even makes sense...
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