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...
I AM SO SICK OF THIS!!!!
Seriously, first my obsession was about being schizophrenic, and now i am worrying about having Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities)! WHY CAN'T i live like normal person and not worry about this stuff? I honestly feel so strange right now, and i am afraid i really do have Dissociative Identity Disorder. I am so afraid that i am going to switch personalities and not remember anything. I am so afraid i am going to forget that i even have a son, and that i will never remember him. Or that i will end up somewhere where i didn't mean to end up, or that i didn't know how i got there. I keep thinking i am going to wake up one day and not know who i am! I am so scared of this! I am so terrified of changing into a completely different person and not remember anything. I hope i do not have multiple personalities, even the thought of it scares me. I feel so slow today, and that makes me think i have it to. GOD, what the hell is wrong with me!?! I seriously can't handle this stress anymore. I don't know what to do! DO i really have multiple personalities? Am i going to switch into someone i am not and possibly hurt the people i love? Am i going to loose my mind? I feel so scared. Is this just OCD playing tricks on me, or am i really not okay? Has someone else ever had this fear of switching personalities or having multiple personalities? Please tell me i am not alone, and that i am not loosing my mind! I have extreme anxiety right now, and i am at my wits end about being terrified about this....Please help.
Seriously, first my obsession was about being schizophrenic, and now i am worrying about having Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities)! WHY CAN'T i live like normal person and not worry about this stuff? I honestly feel so strange right now, and i am afraid i really do have Dissociative Identity Disorder. I am so afraid that i am going to switch personalities and not remember anything. I am so afraid i am going to forget that i even have a son, and that i will never remember him. Or that i will end up somewhere where i didn't mean to end up, or that i didn't know how i got there. I keep thinking i am going to wake up one day and not know who i am! I am so scared of this! I am so terrified of changing into a completely different person and not remember anything. I hope i do not have multiple personalities, even the thought of it scares me. I feel so slow today, and that makes me think i have it to. GOD, what the hell is wrong with me!?! I seriously can't handle this stress anymore. I don't know what to do! DO i really have multiple personalities? Am i going to switch into someone i am not and possibly hurt the people i love? Am i going to loose my mind? I feel so scared. Is this just OCD playing tricks on me, or am i really not okay? Has someone else ever had this fear of switching personalities or having multiple personalities? Please tell me i am not alone, and that i am not loosing my mind! I have extreme anxiety right now, and i am at my wits end about being terrified about this....Please help.
I am not a doctor, but I do know how you feel -at least as it relates to the anxiety and panic. When I feel anxious I catastrophize and I am guessing that is what you are doing as well. I have 3 boys and love them dearly -not remembering them is indeed a sad thought, but it is my thinking that the anxiety/panic is what is causing all of this negative thinking in you. Take your son for a walk or do a fun activity with him if/when you can. Also, It helps me to be busy, and once I knock that panic back a few notches I can start thinking more positively about things.
YOu are not schizophrenic and you don't have Mltiple Personalities, you have the one and only Panic/Anxiety disorder which may as well be called the Death disorder because you truly want to die from it. But you won't die and you will get through it, we all do.
Trust in yourself, even when it doesn't seem possible.
J