First off, you are not going crazy. I, too, suffer from the exact same thing you are currently experiencing. It is great that you are in therapy and are taking meds to help. I am also in therapy (for what feels like the millionth time) and am on meds. I still have more bad days than good. Depression and anxiety combined can be absolutely debilitatiing. Today, for instance, was an extremely hard day for me. I question everything when I get like this, nothing feels real. I feel like I am outisde of myself, looking in, and still not able to help myself. I live at the doctor and keep feeling like I am now a hypochondriac, even though I have legitiamte health issues. I actually don’t feel right if I am not being treated for something, or under the doctor’s care. It is the craziest thing, but that is how I feel and I truly can’t help it. Anxiety causes so many nagging thoughts. You may want to consider getting a physical, just to give yourself a peace of mind. If not, breathing techniques do help me, as well as meditation…when I can sit still long enough. I could go on and on about my daily thought process and the things I feel. There is one thing I can promise you….you are most definitely not alone! Sharing your thoughts on here is a big step and you will see how the responses make you feel less ‘crazy’ and more on a normal scale. This site has really helped me and I have just been on here for a week or so. Please reach out anytime you need to talk and know that I am here for you. Sending you hugs and brighter days…

Hello Cheebobo. Welcome to DS. Sorry for what brings you here but glad you are here.

You are far from alone with those symptoms, as well as the phenom of feeling alone and freakish for having those symptoms. Girl, howdy, I wish I could **just get over it** like everybody keeps telling me to. Just just it all! ! !

Having a safe place to vent and sort among people who have some clues helps me allot. This is one of my safe places to feel less alone with ^it^. Hope it serves you as well as it has served me.

Welcome aboard. You are not alone.

Then we get to the general definitions of, "Crazy." Have you read the news lately? I'm not all the way sure **we** are the crazy ones. I often believe "Crazy" is defined by lunatics holding the keys to the asylum.

Heyy. Hi. Your welcome here and we get it.
Having anxiety about my anxiety is par for the course. Panicking that I’m panicking it’s just the way anxiety works. Giving it a name this is anxiety and it doesn’t feel good at all but I am ok and I will be ok. Kinda takes away its power for me a little bit.

Thank you for reaching out and sharing. Glad you found this forum. So many of us understand the struggle with depression and anxiety. It is helpful to share here and know you are not alone. I am glad to here you are on medication and getting therapy. If you are concerned about it being something else, go to a doctor and get checked out. That will help ease your mind some.

With anxiety and depression, they produce very real physical symptoms. Sometimes it even feels like you are having a heart attack. The can't breathing feeling can really make it scary. What has helped me it to remind myself, this is a disease, not something I am bringing on myself - it is a chemical imbalance. With medication and therapy you should start to feel better, but it will take time.

I have found taking my thoughts captive is number one in feeling better. As soon as a anxious negative thought starts coming, I try to block it before it festers.

These two techniques really seem to help me.

1) The 557 breathing technique is take 5 deep breaths in while thinking good thoughts about yourself like I am safe, I am calm, I am relaxed and then hold the breaths for the count of 7 focusing on those words about yourself, then let out the breath slowly for 5 seconds letting go of any anxious, self-defeating, unhealthy thoughts. I do this one to three times a sitting.

The gratitude journal is writing down something good every morning and night something that went well in the day, or something I appreciate about myself. Taking our focus off of the anxiety and depression and focusing on positive uplifting things really helps. What you think is what you believe. So thinking uplifting things you believe those things but the reverse is true - thinking negative self-defeating things, you will believe those.

I will be praying for you. Feel free to pm me if you'd like to chat. Hugs and God Bless

You are caught in the viscous cycle of fear feeding fear. Recovery from anxiety means you will have better days and bad days. Normal. The key here is to not be discouraged and accept that there will be good and bad days. That nagging feeling is a lie, it’s a manifestation of anxiety, nothing more. Stop believing the lie, it’s only anxiety talking.

You are not alone. Anxiety is a very lonely feeling. I have moments of feeling “normal”, but that can disappear in a moment. You can’t think your way out of the anxiety. It has a mind of its own. The chemicals in the brain are in disarray. You may feel like you are going crazy sometimes, but you won’t. But the feelings of uneasiness, worry, being unsettled are very real. My anxiety had been under control for several years, but that all changed in January. My antidepressant pooped-out(quit working).. i hit bottom and the anxiety returned. Medication is helping, but the anxiety persists. Exercise helps, staying busy helps. Do things that you enjoy.. Stay hopeful. I am a Christian, so I believe God continues to love you. We live in a broken world, so our bodies and minds can have issues. Thank God for medications. I wish you peace and healing. Please stay hopeful and know others care.

How are things going? I have been praying for you. Hugs