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...
Since beginning of this year I've been having constant toxic thoughts about my significant other cheating. EVERY SINGLE day I'm obsessed with the thoughtds that maybe he didn't go to work but he went to meet a girl. If he calls me to say he's working overtime that immediately translated as "I'm gonna go meet a girl" to me. I'll think about this until I get physically sick and have anxiety attacks about it. Everyday I have to get an assurance that he is not cheating on me. This is so tiring and I want to stop...but I can't stop obsessing about it. Sometimes I even have obsessive thoughts about secretly checking his phone and I get anxiety attacks until I do. I just hate that I'm like this because I was never a jealous person but now everything he does makes me think that he is cheating on me. (By the way he is not) He missed a lot of social functions because I didn't let him go and now his coworkers think that I'm a crazy, controlling b*tch. I have obsessed thoughts about other things too but this one is the worst because it's affecting our relationship. I start to think that this is beyond anxiety...maybe OCD. Anybody have the same problem?
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Are you on any meds to help with this? I had similar thoughts until I got on my xanax xr and it really helped with turning my mind off and obsessive, interfering thoughts.
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you need to break the cycle. you probably need to seek other help in doing so but i know what you mean i some times think thoughts like that but when you break the cycle and use reason and normal thought process it will go to a level that is normal
biddy1
I was like that for so long, especially when we were going out, even with my family. I just keep telling myself that if he wanted to do it he would whether i stressed about it or not. It took a long time to be more managed about my irrational thoughts and they are still not all under control, but i do see that it is just another manefestation of fear and if it wasnt about him then you would replace it with something else. Certainly accepting help from my doc by being put on lexapro has made a difference but it hasnt 'cured' me, but he can go out without me being totally jealous of all the women he might meet. Keep fighting it and good luck xx
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