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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Emma9430 10/01/2016

Hi, I'm Emma and I have hypochondria. I always feel that is something wrong with my body, I always think that I must have an illness, a really bad illness like cancer or something, for instance, now I have pain in my back and chest (witch is probably from my real illness witch is scoliosis), but in my mind I think that is because I'm smoking too much and I probabaly have lungs cancer... and the really bad part is that I'm afraid of medicine, I can't even take a pain or cold medicine like ibuprofen without having a panic attack ... and also I'm always tired, all day long I have no energy (and I had blood tests and nothing's wrong, so I can't explain why)... I'm 23 and I feel like I'm 80 so it's really ruining my life...

Squarley 10/01/2016

I know exactly how you feel I've had that most of my life since I was a child and now 68 I take Xanax for times a day keep from having attacks it's a hard life to live and I don't know how you get over it I did go to therapy in which helps him I hope and pray you get some relief , but I have exactly the same thing as you.

Emma9430 10/01/2016

Hey... I went to therapy and did helped me in some ways but not enough. .. thankfully I've found this good doctor who recomended me natural hypericum pills, they are very good for physical and mental tiredness and for imaginary fears and they worked fantastic for me, I never had panic attacks since than but after pausing them for a while the fears and the tiredness tend to come back and I also had heart palpitations and she recomended me hawthorn pills and some breathing exercises (and she is a traditional doctor, not an alternative medicine type) but I have moments when I feel so bad and still afraid of having a deadly desease and is draining all my energy... I just want to be the person I used to be before all this happened. ... you should try those natural pills if you want but you will have to give up Xanax because they can't combine, and also lots of magnesium, the B vitamin complex and vitamin D

chordman 10/01/2016

I feel for both of you. Ive been having the same issues for about 35 yrs now. Mine will come and go with sometimes years between. This time though, it hasnt went yet. Been quite a few months and im still having issues in one way or another daily. Taking ativan as needed and they really hell me. Its such a low dose and i only have to take them once every 3 or 4 days, so ive been able to deal with it sometimes on my own which is good. Hope we all get feeling better soon...we are not alone in this!...that is some comfort when we feel like no one feels like this :)

Emma9430 10/01/2016

I'm sorry.... I don't feel better knowing that is someone alse who shares the same misery i'm struggling with... I just hope this won't exist anymore ...

FLOWERGIRL3 10/02/2016

omg same i have the same thing~

sunandbutterflies 10/03/2016

Hello Emma,
I am glad to hear that you went to therapy, though I am sorry that it did not help you more. As chordman and flower girl said, other people have the same anxiety and fears. I am glad that you found a doctor who is able to help you a little bit too. I hope that you continue to seek and find the help that you need to recover. God bless!

Emma9430 10/04/2016

Thank you! !

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