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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Walls are closing in

SilentOne321
SilentOne321

Ive always had troubles making friends and when I did my parents always hated them so I gave them up. Now I have lost a friend and my husband made me quit talking to one. He keeps making me give up things and I always support him. He is only there when it is convenient for him.  Now I am half way across the country from my family, no friends, having some serious medical problems and I'm trying to hold it all together for my son.  Ive started having panic attacks. And my anxiety is getting worse.  I just feel alone.  I just started anxiety medicine and my husband is opposed to it which is causing more anxiety.  It feels like the walls are closing in on me and I feel trapped.  I want to be me again but I feel broken.  I'm just not ok and feel like no one is there. 

Community LeaderMid
Mid
Measure your well-being. Measure your integrity. Measure your desire to be you.

I can sense something you've not seen yet in your writing.

You will have to find the strength to be an individual, and give you and your son a chance at normal relations with people in general.

Isolation is common to anxiety. Rather than give in to it, find ways to make it work for you. I made myself walk places, and speak to people. It takes practice to find your comfort zone in new places.

Best wishes.
SilentOne321
SilentOne321
I tried to get on anxiety medication but they only gave me a week's worth of Klonopine to be taken as needed. Im already tired all the time and it just makes me more tired. So yah...
sharaninmd
sharaninmd
Sorry you are experiencing anxiety and panic attacks. I am also sorry you feel so isolated and lonely. I can relate to that. I believe your husband is trying to control you in every way. You have moved so you are no longer close to your family. He has made you give up a friend. Now, he doesn't want you to take the anxiety medication your doctor prescribed. This is a form of mental abuse that you do not deserve. The abuse will probably get worse if you are not willing to make some changes. Of course he is making your anxiety worsen. You need to decide if you want to continue to live this way or if you are going to be your own person who decides how you want to live and who you will have as friends in your life. It won't be easy to make the changes, but I think you and your son will be better off.
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