Hi, I am nearly the same age also retired and facing new ways of controlling my anxiety/depression. Welcome here and please be sure to share experiences.

I am 67 and I suffered GAD for many, many years, and finally it is getting better. So, I urge you to find something that really stimulates you mentally or emotionally and pursue it. Meditation and slow walks are great, and try to slow down to obverse everything in your path.. Don't get bored. I know that it is difficult to feel enthusiasm with GAD because the sufferer just wants to hurry and get it over with. Buspirone is a good med for it, mindfulness is also good, but the best thing is to find someone to care about. Hope I am not sounding preachy.

I am 64 years old and have suffered with GAD for the past 35 years. Medications have helped Paxil, Lexapro and Xanax. I had to recently stop the Xanax because I had built up a tolerance to it and the doctor upped the dosage which really messed me up. I started having panic attacks and had to stop the Xanax. The Paxil and Lexapro also stopped working and my doctor is now trying Cymbalta to see if that works. My anxiety is all biological, I inherited from my father. I have no external triggers causing my anxiety. I am also doing meditation, acupuncture and Recovery International. I believe it is all helping because the anxiety seems to be improving over time.

I have always wondered the ages of some of you. I am 63 and have been suffering from anxiety most of my life. I want to retire next year but don't know how that's going to work out since I am my mothers caregiver. I have to figure something out because I can retire and stay home to to take of her. It' s streesful enough now, even though she has a CNA who comes in the morning and another one who comes in the evening and puts her to bed. There are times when she may call me at 1, 2 or 3am saying she needs a pain pill or needs to go to the bathroom. She calls me throughout the day at work with complaints. It's just getting to be too much. At this stage in my life and with my anxiety I need to be taking care of myself. I took her out of the nursing facility because of the poor care she was receiving but she may have to go back and that causes me anxiety as well. I have two other siblings who do very little to help out. I just have too much going on in my own life to deal with this stress.

I meant to say I cannot retire to stay home with her.

Sometimes I think anxiety is in our genes or dna or maybe from having a hard life. I'm 68 and got it when I was in my 30's it was so bad I wouldn't even stay in my house alone, my faith did help me to finally deal with all the fear in my life and I still worked full time for 42 years so I did it but its not easy but each of us has to find our own ways to cope.. So sorry Crystal you have so much on your plate. Sorry you are here Tired and like you I am very tired.. Peace to all of us.

I have a suggestion, we are all in the same age group and all have anxiety. Why don't we create a group of our own sort of like a group within a group. We could share our experiences and how we are coping since it seems we are facing the same issues in life and we are at the same point in our lives, over 60 years of age, retired and what do we do now.

djchurn, victor, Crystalclear and Leeann33 what are your thoughts??

im 18 an tired of life. cant imagin 50 more years of it. how do u do it? is living worth it? how do u not jus end urself?

salvatop,
I'm new to this site, but not to anxiety! I'm 65, and anxiety has crippled my entire adult life.
I'd be very interested in your idea of a group within a group.

Yes, that sounds good to me, I like the idea.

How do we accomplish it?

Salvatop, if I knew how to post your group name I would or you could send them a message, at this time there is just a couple of us that joined. My tech knowledge is very limited or I would. lol

Leeann33.....The name of the group is "Sixtysomethings With Anxiety".