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...
Hi everyone! I just joined and I find all of your stories/experiences so helpful, so thank you. I have been diagnosed with many things one being anxiety disorder. I was most recently diagnosed with minimal change disease which is a kidney disease. They have me on Prednisone. I don't know if anyone has heard of the horror stories of this steriods side effects, but they really suck. Anyway the reason for bringing it up, is my anxiety, and other mental illnesses, are AWFUL ever since starting this steriod. I constantly feel like I have fire in my chest. It is constant. I have been on this medication since July and continue to feel worse the longer I'm on it. I know maybe some of you have never experinced a steriod completely going against your mental health, but I am hoping that we can relate with the constant struggle. I have brought all this up to my doctors, both psychiatrist and nephrologist, and they keep saying "hang in there, youll feel better when you're off the medication". I feel like nobody is listening to me and know how badly I am feeling. I know things will get better in a few months when I get off, but until then I just need support. Thank you for reading <3
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
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I don't really know how to label this but I having a rough week and I can't say it's one thing.... I have a lot on my plate which is nothing new and I try to cope in many positive ways and do but I still have my moments.My kids more so my daughters talk to me about everything which I know it's cause of comfort and we are close.... however I really struggle with the venting about their dad which...
Is it the medication causing you more anxiety, or is the anxiety coming from other things, including dealing with other health conditions?
I know it feels sometimes that doctors aren't listening to us, and maybe they aren't fully, but we have to keep telling them again and again until they DO listen to us. Because anxiety doesn't "look" like anything they can see (unlike say, a broken bone), people sometimes don't believe how much we are really suffering. Have to be the squeaky wheel!
In the meanwhile, you will find supportive people on this website. Glad you are here :)
Color me ignorant of both MCD and medication side effects, but the grueling, on-going challenges of living with diverse psych portfolios is a phenom I understand all too well. I have more psych dx'es than I care to remember. Add in a physical illness and there's no telling what psycho boogeyman is going to pop out of my psycho cauldron.
Emotional support makes all that yuckery easier to manage. This is one of the places I find that emotional support.
Welcome aboard. Hope you can find healing companionship here to help you through this ordeal and maybe even beyond.