Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Hi, my name is John and I am new to this group.

I have a family history of Agoraphobia. I was diagnosed with Anxiety about 10 years ago. About 2 years ago, I started getting physical symptoms, i.e. head pressure, dizziness. Going to a store is an adventure for me. The slightest thing gives me a panic attack. I seem to do ok in crowds, as long as people do not enter my personal space. Everywhere I go, I must set up personal space for me to be comfortable. If I don't, I panic. My wife and I are constantly fighting about my anxiety and she is not willing to help me. I just started seeing a psychiatrist.

Any advice is always welcome
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BTW. My wife really wants to have a second child and doesn't want me to take any meds that would affect fertility
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I too suffer from panic attacks and have for 18 years. My husband does not understand at all and beleives this is all under my control..Hang in there, one of the things you may be able to try is small doses of doing the things that make you panic with someone who understands it. Someone who could talk you through the proper steps, knowing what you are feeling at that moment. A for instance would be to walk to the door way of the grocery store and talk through your thoughts with someone until those feeling subside, next time go a little further. As for a second child and no meds, this is a call you will need to make. I had a child 8 years ago and needed to go off my medication. This caused so much aftermath, postpartum depression and now I have anxiety and sever depression...You need to do what's best for you, you child needs you.
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Thanks for the advice. I have been talking to my father more. We have a lot of common things. He avoids everything that sets him off and i am trying to confront everything
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i also is new to this group and i to suffer from Agoraphobia and panic attacks i dont go out and hardle answer the phone and hate answering the door. i have a long term boyfriend and we used to argue alot when i started geting ill but since i sat down and explained to him whats going on he started to under stand. maybe you could try getting your wife to sit down and try to get her to see it from you point of view. good luck.
DogCrazy
DogCrazy
My husband loves me and want,s to se me healthy but does grow frustrated and says it get,s very old and wearing, which i can understand.
It,s very hard for someone who doesn,t have anxiety to know what where going through.
I bought my husband a book on anxiety disorders to help him understand.
You may want to have your wife attend therapy with you a couple of times so she may get a better picture and understanding of what your going through.
It,s going to be a tough call as far as having another a child, is it really fair on you to ask you to come off meds that help you? and do these meds really have any effect on fertility?, i have never heard of that before and am not sure it is so, i would ask your doctor if your meds truely affect your fertility.
Good luck!.
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