and we hope to be able to give you support. please keep sharing and we will keep listening.

Hi Josh, this sounds awful, like, worse than I've ever had it. I have it so I can't eat or sleep, but never actually throwing up although I often feel like I want to.

If this isn't too stupid a question: do you take a lot of vitamin b complex vitamins? because I have found they help my anxiety. They can make an enormous difference to me.

Do you know what sets your anxiety off? And can you get a hug from mum or dad when it kicks in? Does that help? Telling a friend often helps me because when I talk about whatever terrible thing I think I've done, I generally realise it wasn't that bad.

I don't take vitamins. I have a med that I take when my anxiety gets high. Everything sets my anxiety off, literally everything.

I emphasize with your anxiety. I am reliant on anxiety meds as I can have anxiety i24/7. I do deep breathing all the time and try to refocus the thoughts. We have to plow through this.

Being a lot older I understand your feelings. I too get the dry heaves, no fun. Sweating is my main issue. I used to look forward to summer, but now I can't wait for it to be over.

Heya Josh, I'm new as well. I can absolutely relate as I have had lived with anxiety for as long as I can remember but only was diagnosed after highschool. This affected me being able to have social relationships. I will literally shake like a leaf with speaking to people or just during any random episode. I also get very physically sick to the point I will start burping everything up into my mouth and just having a constant feeling of having to throw up which only makes me feel more upset.. I hope you're able to find something to help you work through those terrible thoughts that cause this.

Having learned a specific trigger such as gag reflex works to help you find a balance. Anxiety is natural, so learning the pattern that happens prior to the gag reflex engaging will be a process of writing it out such as you have here, practicing hydration both food and liquid, and breathing to calm the anxiety from increasing will give you tools to naturally help anxiety sensations disappear.
Welcome to the group!

Hey, Josh I'm a 37 African American female Md. I feel you, Josh. I struggled with depression feom.a teen and all through my twenties. Then the anxiety states 4 years ago. Josh, you are amazing, intelligent and you'll be just fine. Just keep friends and family close. Build healthy relationships along the way for support because your going to need people for support. I'm my experience and pretty much everyone's experience city life in is stressful in America because of the computer industrialized and competitive system that employers promote. I was thinking living in the country for a while. Of If not then visiting a lot. Josh, you'll be fine.

Also, see if you can join a anxiety support group in your community with teens and young adults. Josh, that will help you, tremendously because it will be more personal face to face.

Thanks for your reply Champion. I have looked for support groups in my area and have not found any.

josh I'd recommend multivitamins first off, because they make a huge difference to stability. Take them even if you don't think you need them. How is your diet? Do you eat lots of healthy food?

Or are you too skinny and don't eat well? Because I've seen bad anxiety in skinny people, and I don't know which comes first, but I think it's the lack of nutrients.

There have been recent studies on bombarding people with very high doses of micronutrients to fix mental disorders, actually at Otago University I believe, and a link has been proven.

Also It's important to get tested for the MTHFR Gene mutation which a few people on this site have found out they had. The test is apparently cheap, a mouth swab. The cure is also cheap; and again it's micronutrients.

I'm very overweight but in the past month about I've been really focused on eating healthy. I count every calorie and I also exercise.

That's great that you are doing this for yourself. :) I think if there's anyone out there who I admire (and think is delicious) it's Ethan Suplee. If you look at him early on he was very very very big. But he's managed to turn it around for himself. I thought he was gorgeous in My Name Is Earl but he's just got thinner and fitter and stronger and now he looks amazing.

I suggest you take a berocca and/or a multivitamin every day though, just to see if it helps with the background anxiety. :)

Hi Josh, I too have been recently diagnosed with gad. I was getting frequent panic attacks and I also suffer from insomnia. Currently I'm being treated with cipralex

Welcome to this forum, Josh! I’m so sorry to hear about your struggles. I know how difficult and frustrating it must be for you to go through this. Are you seeing a therapist? I just said a prayer for you, and I hope that God will surround you with His comfort, strength, and peace. Please know that you can share your heart out here, and we’re all here to support you. Stay strong. Hugs!