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...
its like I'm just stuck. I can barely function. I can't breathe. Everyone is staring at me, and it feels like hot knives are stabbing me in my stomach, and I wish I could just disappear for good. I struggle with everything. How will I ever manage to get a job, or live on my own, get a car and drive down the busy streets all on my own? A lot of times, I just freeze. The world around me just stops, and I am frozen. I'm stuck in my head, and there's whispering voices surrounding me, caressing my broken soul saying "you're completely alone, nobody cares" and I lose my breath. My hearts pounding. My face feels like it's on fire. My hands shake, my foots tapping really fast on the floor. its like a constant clock ticking, and it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. How can I make this all end? Will it ever go away? Will I always be stuck?
Weekly .. I went back on antidepressants. I feel a little
Better but still very weak and do-less ... I lean on a lot of friends to help me ... hang in there I m trying myself.. best wishes
how do you eat an elephant sandwich? one bite at a time. Break it down. The future is terrifying and impossible to resolve when you look at it all together. Break it down. One thing at a time. One piece alone. And if that's too hard? Break that down too!
whatever you do, don't go off medication cold turkey. You will crash and burn. Reading between the lines I'm suspecting this is what you've done. You just can't do that. You have to slowly, slowly lower your medications, one at a time, cutting pills into halves and quarters or whatever it takes to lower it without knocking you off your perch.
It will disapear by itself, think about it!
Your description of your anxiety makes me think that you are a potential writer! Have you considered writing down, just as descriptively, the aspects of your life that are positive?