
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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I feel like i have cycles of anxiety. Ill be super anxious for a few days, over thinking everything, panicking, having awful racing thoughts, and just feeling horrible and then out of nowhere ill have a few okay days where i pretty much feel blank. I feel like im not able to think about anything and im just kind of there. I guess I feel calmer but not like myself.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?

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maybe your meds are doing the trick.

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how do you mean, you feel blank? that sounds horrible - I know there was a phase where I felt very distant from everything, as if looking at life from the end of a telescope, but this sounds as horrid, feeling blank, as feeling so anxious?

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The weird thing is I'm not on any meds. I feel blank as in I don't feel any strong emotions, im just here, not really doing anything. I know the telescope feeling too, but this isnt it. I just feel really out of it, not my usual self.

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Sounds to me like you are numbing your feelings or zoning out. I have the impression this is a way to cope with the anxiety, yet you need to look at where your anxiety is coming from. Establish the cause of your anxiety. Then work on fixing it from there.

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You should talk to a counselor. It sounds a little like bi-polar.

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I agree, my bi polar runs like that.except when Im manic I can be happy or anxiety'd. and when Im depressed I cry alot. pretty simialr. How long is the cycle ? From point A to back again

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I was *I think, through talking to a therapist after I lost my husband) that I went into bi-polar for about ten years after I had our third son who was stillborn.....I go through ups and downs, feel extremely high and over-active as if I can do loads, make different plans, then collapse and cancel things and take to my bed (not noticeably and not all the time!) until I suddenly feel I can continue again. Luckily my lifestyle allows for this....I am non Lexapro - but have never considered myself bi-polar except for that ten year episode of unresolved depression and anxiety - but is this possible I sort of suffer from this now, then? My closest friend is bi-polar and her swings are more violent and last longer...though now she is older she is much better....
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