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...
i am new to this board and could really use some friends who are going through what i am going through. about five years ago i drove about an hour and a half away from home to meet my sister and her kids i was starting to feel ill the closer i got to this town and by the time i meet up with my sister i thought i was going to die i felt clamy, dizzy, sick to my stomach, and i was shaking all over like my body was in shock. i had no idea what was going on at the time and then it happened again in the movie theater when i was with my kids, i spent the whole movie in the bathroom with a cold papertowl on my face. when i left the theater i laid in my van for about 10 minutes and then felt better. i am on Citalopram 60mg everyday and it helped me for about 2 years but for some reason the last few days i have been feeling nervous and jittery and sick to my stomach and i also have sweaty palms and feet all day long. i had an iud put in five years ago and i did research on it recently and it sounds like that could cause anxiety in some people.my five years was up on dec 28th and i don't know if that is why i'm feeling this way now or what is going on. my husband and son also have anxiety and it is so hard because my husband thinks he knows what i'm going through but he can drive on trips and do things that i can't do without medication so it is hard for him to understand. my eight year old son misses a lot of school because of his anxiety and it's so hard for me to make him go because i picture myself feeling the way i do and having to go to school. i'm a stay at home mom and have been for 10 years now and that probably doesn't help either because i don't get out of the house so much. just this last weekend my mom and my sister took me out on friday night to dinner and a movie i was fine during dinner and than when we pulled up to the movie theater i had a small panick attack and thought i would be fine so i'm in the theater and have to keep getting up to go to the bathroom to puke so i had to leave the theater and when i got home i was still in anxiety mode and was freaking out and feeling like i was going to die. my husband didn't know how to help me and kinda made it about himself, i am making anxity worse and he doesn't know how to help me. i tried telling him to just talk to me to get these negetive thoughts out of my head but he gave up on me after about five minutes. so my 12 year old daughter who loves to talk came in and laid with me and talked to me about anything and everything until my medication kicked in and i was able to sleep. i'm so tired of feeling hopeless and like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. the thought that keeps on running through my head is i'm only 37 how can i live the rest of my life feeling like this?am i such a bad person that i have to go through life with this? aren't i a ray of sunshine, wanna be my friend? ha ha
I don't have anxiety attacks too much I just have anxiety ALL of the time. It is rare these days that I have any good days. I have 4 kids and I feel like I cannot be the mom I need to be for them.
I am VERY symptomatic, so everyday it is something new. One day it might be muscle tension that causes pain, so I think I have MS. The next day that will be gone and then I am weak and shaky which on confirms my self diagnosis of MS. That will pass and then my heart flutters all day, so then I MUST have heart disease and I will die young. It never stops.
I know it is hard when you don't have anyone that understands, it can make you feel so alone. I have recently started seeing a therapist which has helped some. Have you ever considered seeing one? It helps because they understand exactly what your going through and you can tell them anything. They won't judge you or think your crazy.
My husband has anxiety too, but his is social anxiety, so he doesn't understand my health anxiety. He thinks I should just be able to tell myself it's ok and then go on. Wish it was that easy!!!
I feel for you and you will have friends here. We are all going through the same thing and it is great to be able to come here for support and reassurance.
God bless you, friend.