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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mrsdough 05/18/2009

I am sitting in the lobby of a hotel while i wait for my husbands doctors appointment to get out and him to come to get me, i\'m trying to keep myself calm but just in the last hour i have been getting more and more anxious. Everywhere i loook it seems like someone is going to get me someway or another, everyone is a threat to me

I had to take my anti anxiety meds because i know if i don\'t get a hold of this now i will end up in the hospital and i don\'t want that. I don\'t know what to do, the only thing that came to mind was to come on here and hope it would make me feel better, it really doesn\'t. I don\'t know how to get over this stupid stuff, I have to reassure my husband that i am okay because this doctors appointment is so important and i want his full attention to be on his appointment not on me.

I can\'t seem to shake this feeling of doom, i have no one i know, and there are lots of people. Even though my lodgical brain is saying there are too many people around you to be that stupid for someone to come and take advantage of you with out having witnesses or hearing you scream;

God I hate this, God i just want to go home, and be in my safe place back into my world where i don\'t have to be so anxious and have my mind play such stupid tricks on me.

soultosoul 05/18/2009

i am so sorry to hear you are feeling like this just now, try not to worry about how your husband will react, you need to be able to speak to him so you have support

has something happened in the past that is aking you feel this way or do you not have any connection as to why you are having these feelings x

deleted_user 05/18/2009

Try getting up and moving around. Maybe go outside for a breath or up to the room if the people are disturbing you.

You can get through it. :-)

mrsdough 05/19/2009

I have been fearful all my life, and when i feel alone with no where to go for safety i automatically go into high state of alert that causes me to be severely anxious. I think that anything bad that will happen will happen and no one would even know, I have a long history of just being terrified by people because i've been hurt badly by people i thought i could trust

mrsdough 05/19/2009

And yes i got through it i always do, but its the getting through i struggle with the most! :D Thank you again for the support and comments it means a lot to me

deleted_user 05/19/2009

So sorry you're going through a rough patch there. I remember the first time I came out of my safe zone after I started having the anxiety attacks. Boy, that first day was rough. I was having hot and cold flashes, electric shock sensations through my body, dizziness... argh, it was a nightmare. So hey, at least you're not having that! So that's something positive, eh? :-)

Your mind is a beautiful and powerful tool, but it certainly does also play some nasty tricks at times. When I am in those situations, I just keep talking to myself with positive talk, and I find something to distract my attention. I carry a good book with me at all times, along with a cell phone that has games on it.

Best of luck to you!

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