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...
Because of the severity of my anxiety attack the other night, I now have a stronger fear that when i get even a minor stomach ache I will begin having symptoms of stomach flu or intense uncomfortableness. Some of the thoughts are triggered by food.. It's not that i hate food, I don't think it has anything to do with the food.. But my irrational mind sometimes links things to bad events.. Like one time i had something made with rancid butter, So sometimes when i have things with butter i have an anxious reaction.
My anxiety has seemingly gotten a little worse since the other night when i had an intense anxiety attack over something I ate, I ate a chicken pot pie.. But my stomach ached for a while afterward. The aching in my stomach, and probably some other stress related reactions in the back of my head, Lead to me thinking something was wrong and i was going to either come down with a horrible case of a stomach flu/cramps/ache and that the only thing that could possibly come of this was bad.
Yesterday i had noodles, raw cookie dough and a bit of alcohol. It caused my stomach to hurt later on and that stomach ache made me directly think of getting diarrhea. Which is what it links to in my mind.
My anxiety has not gotten worse, Just my reactions.. Before i could have an attack every once in a while and it would just be the normal shaking body tremors, maybe dizziness, nausea, inability to concentrate, minor stomach aches and maybe gas.
But now that i had that attack the other night my mind is linking anxiety to intense stomach pain and diarrhea or other stomach aching problems. And because it was only a few days ago it seems that the memory is fresher and I think that each time i get anxiety i will have the same reaction.. And thinking about that reaction I get the anxiety.
I need to find a way to break the chain thats telling me whenever i eat certain things I'm going to get a stomach ache, Or whenever I get a bit of pain in my stomach it's going to end up being diarrhea.
Anyone have any advice?
My anxiety has seemingly gotten a little worse since the other night when i had an intense anxiety attack over something I ate, I ate a chicken pot pie.. But my stomach ached for a while afterward. The aching in my stomach, and probably some other stress related reactions in the back of my head, Lead to me thinking something was wrong and i was going to either come down with a horrible case of a stomach flu/cramps/ache and that the only thing that could possibly come of this was bad.
Yesterday i had noodles, raw cookie dough and a bit of alcohol. It caused my stomach to hurt later on and that stomach ache made me directly think of getting diarrhea. Which is what it links to in my mind.
My anxiety has not gotten worse, Just my reactions.. Before i could have an attack every once in a while and it would just be the normal shaking body tremors, maybe dizziness, nausea, inability to concentrate, minor stomach aches and maybe gas.
But now that i had that attack the other night my mind is linking anxiety to intense stomach pain and diarrhea or other stomach aching problems. And because it was only a few days ago it seems that the memory is fresher and I think that each time i get anxiety i will have the same reaction.. And thinking about that reaction I get the anxiety.
I need to find a way to break the chain thats telling me whenever i eat certain things I'm going to get a stomach ache, Or whenever I get a bit of pain in my stomach it's going to end up being diarrhea.
Anyone have any advice?
My anxiety sometimes goes from one thing to another, most of it is to do with too much thinking. I imagine you know its irrational but it still doesn't stop it from happening, at least that what happens to me :)
Distraction maybe a technique you could try, try eating watching the TV if you don't already?
Or if your anxiety is that bad, eat a small amount of food and come back to it at 5min intervals, that way you might be able to convince yourself that nothing bad will happen to you.
Good luck, all the best.
if you want to talk about this more, send a message my way! i can completely relate. good luck :)
I've got myself stuck in a negative thought pattern that whenever i have a stomach ache, i will get diarrhea, which will in turn cause anxiety, and make the whole situation worse.
It could be wrong but anxiety such as ours (although I suffer from GAD) can manifest itself as physical symptoms.
I suppose the idea is to break those phobias perhaps by distraction so that can't generate those symptoms by thinking of them too much... difficult I know and my support goes out to you.
I still think TV a good distraction, or another way maybe to go out and eat somewhere where another activity takes place, something that invokes pleasure, like bowling, or even a restaurant or fast food chain.
i think alcohol is the worst thing, and wouldn't help you at all. if you've had a weak/bad stomach it cannot hold/soak up alcohol so you would get it again!
keep your food simple, pasta without heavy sauce, breads/toast with avocado, rice and vegies to get your stomach functioning.
i drink chamomile tea, very calming and good on the stomach.
peppermint is also good.
eat smaller portions but often..to get into a pattern and ease worry.
fresh food will mean less likely of worrying it's bad or rancid. (fresh break for example is quite safe).