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...

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BrookeT
BrookeT

I can't tell you guys how long I felt alone with my anxiety. my mom would listen,  but wouldn't understand. my dad would tell me I needed to get checked into the hospital, and my friends tried to sympathize but I know they were just trying to be nice. 


I have more bad days than good days, but when It's a good day I thank my lucky stars because it doesn't happen to often. 


Im not really sure where i'm getting with this but I just wanted to say hi, and i'm excited to be apart of this group! 

Tired
Tired
You might need therapy or medication or both. It helped me. I have had lifelong anxiety.
How old are you? Do you go to school, college? There should be counselor there you
could start with.
bridgie101
bridgie101
Hi Brooke, dad's right. you need to see a doctor. Nobody can understand anxiety that hasn't had it. it's impossible to explain. And it takes years to even understand your own anxiety, or certainly has for me. The more help you get the faster you can get this under control so don't be ashamed to tell the doc.

Meanwhile, vitamins, sleep, lots of water, staying away from stressful people or events, and giving yourself time to lie in bed and just think about things and get the chemicals processed by your liver or whatever are things I have found helpful to me. :)
BrookeT
BrookeT
Oh god i'm sorry, I should have mentioned this! I have PAD and GAD. I take hydroxyzine when it gets really bad, but I normally just try to tell myself that i'm just over reacting, well atleast that's what i've been trying to do lately.

I'm 23, a cosmetologist and a makeup artists. currently a server/bartender. i don't believe that my anxiety is correlated to stress in anyway. my doctor said that GAD sometimes doesn't need a reason to come up, it just does
4evertryingtoimprove
4evertryingtoimprove
Don't scoff at seeing a counselor. It can't hurt to go talk to one. And if it doesn't help, at least you tried something instead of accepting defeat and your current situation.
bridgie101
bridgie101
If your anxiety isn't correlated to stress then it's correlated to malabsorption of vitamins b complex. Anxiety doesn't just happen: it's an abnormality that always has a cause.

You weren't just born to suffer. There's a gene mutation you can get tested for, that others will probably mention here as well, called the MTHFR gene mutation that amongst other things can inhibit absorption of one of the vitamin b group causing chronic generalised anxiety. I don't have it and I don't know much about it, but they will tell you that it's cheap to get tested, and cheap to get the special folate of the vitamins you need (ie that your body is able to absorb) to fix.

So if you have anxiety that doesn't appear to be being caused by anything in your life, I'd definitely get that test. :)
cielknightroad
cielknightroad
I feel you girl. Let's talk. I added you
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