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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Lanaleo15
Lanaleo15
Does anyone else feel like when they come on here their anxiety starts to go away? At first for me it almost set off a panic attack, when i started to come here. Now I feel ok and come on here when i am having one or feel really bad. And it really helps minimize it when i'm really bad. Does anyone else feel this way?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I think it is just knowing that you are not alone in your struggle and that other people are either going through something similar or have empathy and can relate to you.

I think our group is a very caring group of great, intelligent, and creative people! I am glad you feel better coming here. That is what a support group is all about.

Pay it forward....
gramybear
gramybear
Absolutely!! I don't know where I would be in my life right now if I didn't have DS. I never realized that there could be this many wonderful people in one place. And I agree with kacc... Pay it forward!
Erica71
Erica71
Even though I don't come here every day...I am here quite a bit and I have to tell you....it really means a lot just knowing that you are not alone. You see people posting things that you could have very well just posted yourself....that's how much anxiety is alike for so many of us. I am not glad that anyone suffers from this but at the same time....it is very comforting knowing that I can come here and say anything about my anxiety...and noone's jaw is going to drop....because at least a few can absolutely relate. How many people in our daily walk's suffer from this...or that we know of anyway??? Not many that I know of in my personal life. I'm glad I found this place. =)
denymckusker
denymckusker
I am new to this group. Not to DS but to the Anxiety group. I have resisted the idea that I actually have a disorder. I was/am a high energy person and certainly have experienced anxious times over the years but about 4 years ago it took on a new form. Out of nowhere, I mean I can be brushing one of my dogs and BOOM there it i, I internally vibrate as if I had swallowed 100 cell phones with new batteries on vibrate. It then proceeds to be obvious and I am vibrating internally and externally. I have had a hard time excepting that it is anxiety because I don't feel anxious sometimes when it hits. Test after test after test, I now have to accept it for what it is and learn to cope. I stay medicated at this time to attempt to prevent episodes. I know it is lurking. I know I can learn much from you all and I hope I help others as well.