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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megsmom8816 07/31/2013

Okay, I don't typically suffer from anxiety, but I have been living with a severely depressed husband for the past three months and it has really started to affect me emotionally and physically. He won't go get anything for it, and it seems to be getting worse. In fact, from things I am reading on here I think he is suffering from anxiety, not just depression.

So I have had lots of backaches, headaches, etc. since he became worse, and I have done everything I can think of to make him feel better: massages, helping him learn to meditate, etc.

This morning I woke up with the strangest sensation under my rib cage. It is not necessarily painful, but it is uncomfortable. It feels like something is sitting under there, and when I walk or move around too much it starts to "move".....you know, if you have had a baby it is like that kicking sensation....but it kind of makes me double over till it passes.

Is this another symptom of anxiety? I am not having pain, and I had a physical and my heart checked out about six months ago....but my body has felt horrid since he started going through all of this.

deleted_user 08/01/2013

I get intercostal (rib muscle) pain when I'm stressed. This may be what you are experiencing. I wish I knew how to help you. It hurts. A LOT... Hope you are feeling better soon.

deleted_user 08/01/2013

Im sorry your going through this, but you need to look after yourself to. It would be a good idear to tell your doc whats going on, Susie x

rskb3 08/01/2013

Hi, if your husband won't go in to get medication to help make him feel better i would suggest picking up the book titled "Depression-Free, Naturally: 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life" it has natural remedies to help you feel better. I hope that this will help him and i think once he feels better so will you. Stress does some strange things to our bodies, i have never had what you are describing but it could be related to you being stressed. I hope things get better for you and your husband. Please stand by him and don't give up on him because it is so hard to go through this and we need all the love and support we can get.

megsmom8816 08/01/2013

rskb3, I will definitely see him through it. I hate seeing him hurt....in fact, my personality is such that I can't stand to see anyone in pain, let alone my husband. This is probably why I take on so much of it myself and let the stress attack my body. I am too busy taking care of others. It is my nature.....I guess stress causes stress!

deleted_user 08/01/2013

There a groups out there for people who are living with depressed person. I think NAMI has groups to that effect. Check to see if there's anything around your area that could help.

ScaredSIlly31 08/01/2013

I am so sorry you have to deal with this. I get thos too sometimes and they are VERY uncomfortable.

Try and relax (i know its hard) but a friend of mine once told me to drink peppermint tea when I feel that and it actually helps alot. I also drink it for my aches and pains.

vickicrouch2 08/01/2013

Hi megsmom881. Is it your right rib cage my friend used to describe that baby kicking me under my right rib cage to me and found out it was her gallbladder. Or like you said could be stress, but just sounded so much like my friends description that I thought i would respond. I hope you feel better. Vicki.

megsmom8816 08/01/2013

Thank you. The tea is very relaxing. I do that at night......and thanks for the helpful suggestions.

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