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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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Off work sick...again....

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Hi guys,

I'm just new here. I resigned from a great job a few months ago due to anxiety-induced repeated illnesses: infections, etc. and I've started a new job and off sick again : ( I'm so fed up. This was my new start and I feel I've already failed! Scared of going back on Monday in case I don't have a job and/or can't cope.

Feel no way out for me as I keep getting physically sick regularly but all tests the doc gave me show no organic reason for these illnesses, so it's stress-induced.

Any advice?

Butterfly
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This has happened to me as well. Stomach problems, migraines, fevers, chills, body aches etc. It all boils down to the anxiety and stress. I'm sorry I haven't read your journal so I don't know what you've tried. But it can get better once you find something that works for YOU.
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I wish I had advice, but all I can offer is comfort. I quit my job too due to anxiety. I'm thinking about finding a new line of work, but I need to get healthy first. Hopefully that will happen soon, I'm not kown for my patience. My anxiety is also stress induced and produces nasty physical symptoms. Have you considered any meds or therapy? I've tried both with varrying levels of success.
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Thank you both for your replies! I've also tried meds and some therapy and found that it was a short-term help but hasn't helped in the long term - I just keep slipping back to my old ways of thinking and behaving.
I do get positive and push myself on but when I slip, I feel like such a hopeless case, like, why can't I make progress? I don't understand myself at all :( B
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My doctor's advice to me was "Be less stressed." I found the reply humorous, as it seems impossibly to do...

I found I generally do a little bit better when I can schedule some time for myself to unwind every day, doing something that I want to do instead of have to do. If you can't find the time for that, you've got too much on your plate. Hopefully, you'll be able to find a way to get rid of a few things you don't need as much.

In the end, I'm still stressed a lot, mostly because I always have things that I have to do, but I've been doing a little better and haven't missed any work from it for a couple of months.

Best of luck.
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