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...
I'm rosa, i am 18 and i think i suffer from anxiety. I no one other than a doctor and diagnosis me. But the thing is I really afford a therapist or to go to see a doctor i havent been to one since i was 15.
But i keep getting massive panic attacks once to twice a weak. Were i feel helpless and numb and scared. I feel like im pearlized and i can't breath. I hide all of this and pretty well by isolating myself from others when i start to feel it come on.
This has happen since i was 13. But i always ignored it and hid it. Cause my father always told me to. Because having panic attacks are not a real thing and that i was just making it all up.
I don't like going out anymore. I ussaly can not tolerate crowds well. I am starting to feel depress and trapped about.
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Hello- I am new to the group
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My therapist really knocked some sense into me last Friday about my spending. She said that there are needs and there are wants. She said that there is always going to be cheap stuff to buy, but do I need it? The answer is mostly "no". So today, I am taking back some things that I bought online at Kohl's, namely a 9 x 12 rug and a quilt for my bed. I also bought sheets that I don't need...
Maybe the effort of hiding your anxiety is part of the problem. (Not sure, just guessing.) In my many years I have decided I should be as open as I can be, yet not to say things or do things which make others uneasy.
So it is kind of a fine line.
When I think someone or several ppl can deal with it okay, I may start letting it out. (Letting it out, how I feel bad.) If no one freaks out or gets jittery, I will let it out a little more.
So it can be by stages, when I tell someone I'm suffering.
/A doctor can have good words (wisdom) about what to do, but also the ideas of several friends.... Friends and respected ppl I get along good with. Ideas from them, several of them, not just two or three. This is called "generalized other" (or almost that) by sociologists. Am saying this: when I get a reaction from quite a number of people about my problem, whether feelings or trying for a promotion or buying a car -- then it helps me think it through.
I went to three psychiatrists or more before I found one who could see through me. I suddenly felt he understood and that was a load off my back.
good luck Rosa . ((((( R. )))))