My husband has PTSD actually. But I suffer from anxiety!

I can relate to that. How do you deal with it...I mean, you and your husband??

I'm sorry I'm pretty new to this, what is OCD and PTSD?

i was dignosed with PSTD 2 years ago and was on effexor but got my insurace taken a way i was fine until reacently i couldn't eat, sleep, and i was throwing up i was able to get some clonzepan this is my second night taking it and i have been able to sleep and eat untill i feel a little neverous a couple of hours before night.

My anxiety/panic has gotten so bad over the past few months that the thought of food makes me sick. I literally have to make myself eat at certain times of the day or else I wouldn't eat at all!!!
I've had anxiety since I was little. I can remember being 8/9 yrs old and waking up in the middle of the night shaking and my heart pounding. There is no scientific "proof" that it's genetic but it's on both sides of my family and Mom was bi polar.
Unfortunately, I know what has triggered this horrific anxiety. My Mom passed away suddenly in January. She was only 54. My little sister and I found her in the morning, she was gone for awhile. No idea of cause of death. A few weeks later I had a major car accident and I am now trying to put my life back together without my mom. My psychiatrist has called me a classic case of PTSD!! Gee i'm so special!! It is easier to deal with the anxiety when I know where it's coming from. Where as when i have PANIC attacks out of no where....Why does that happen?????? Who knows??? All I know is that I take 1mg of xanax and hopefully i'll feel calmer in about an hour.

To tabest,
OCD-obsessive compusive disorder
PTSD-post tramatic stress disorder

PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. My husband got it from being deployed in Iraq. He doesn't take medicans. We learnt how to deal with his PTSD together actually through talking and learning to take a step back when he panics a little. Isn't that what marriage is about anyways? So we work through it step by step day by day

When my first marriage was ending, I became so anxious that I literally could not swallow. I lived on Diet Coke and chocolate for about six weeks. Not a recommended diet, but it was all I could swallow. Feeling like my throat is closing off is one of the first physical symptoms I notice when I am becoming anxious.

Thanks for the invite! PTSD has been a lifelong affliction for me. I lose time and memories like crazy depending on my stress level and the docs say it is due to that. Gee thanks. It's all so unfair. You get traumatized then you get this disease.

I can relate to all of you in one way or another. I have had to deal with those things that you all have said. I find the best thing to calm my anxiety, is writing my thoughts down either in a journal online, or just on paper. Maybe it might help some of you to do the same thing when things get bad for you. I hope that in the future, you will find a way to handle the anxiety and be able to open up to a Therapist about it some day and just say whats on your mind and heart!! Just remember, you have a great heart!! You deserve to be happy. We all do

i overeat, when i have a panic attack i feel like i'm going to faint.... i know if i'm full that i won't faint... so i stay full all the time!