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...
I am freaking out again about having a stroke. My left side of my body feels soo odd. Like my hand is numb and heavy and so is my arm and the bottom of my foot is too... my right side also feels kind of weird too. I dont know. But i am so sick of this. I feel so confused and that scares me that this is really a stroke and not anxiety. I have been having this feeling all day long and yesterday too. I also have spots in my vision and my vision is blurry, i feel so weird. But thats also been going on for a month.
I am so afraid that i am having a stroke, or am going to have one. I dont like this at all. I am only 22 years old. I dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont do drugs, i dont have high blood pressure or cholesterol, i dont take birth control pills, and im not obese.. and im still terrified i a, having a stroke right now or am going to have on real soon.
I can smile and lift both arms over my head with no problem and stick my tongue out too, but i still think im having a stroke. when is this going to end. i have been afraid of this for about a month... I cant stand this anymore... :((((((((
I am so afraid that i am having a stroke, or am going to have one. I dont like this at all. I am only 22 years old. I dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont do drugs, i dont have high blood pressure or cholesterol, i dont take birth control pills, and im not obese.. and im still terrified i a, having a stroke right now or am going to have on real soon.
I can smile and lift both arms over my head with no problem and stick my tongue out too, but i still think im having a stroke. when is this going to end. i have been afraid of this for about a month... I cant stand this anymore... :((((((((
Its been a while and Im back...
I went through it...
I posted this a while ago and hope it may have helped some...
It did for me. My therapist recommended calling in my mind all the symptoms (negative of course) of what I thought was going to happen on the verge of a panic attack...... ex.Heart attack, dying, lack of breath, palpitations, numbness......Its fight or flight......and if you call them they will FLY.....
Huge Hugs!!!
It will help if you divert your focus onto something different.
You are in great shape health wise and you are looking after yourself well by not smoking, drinking etc.
I believe your symptoms is purely anxiety. Anxiety can create some pretty weird symptoms in the body.
You have been checked at at the ER and everything was good.
You got to start believing that you are well and healthy.
You appear to be stuck on this thought that you are going to have a stroke. The more you think on it the more it will seem you are having one...you are convincing yourself that you are having one.
BUT You aren't going to have one. You are fine. Breathe in deep breath, breath out slowly.
You would not be able to type or read or do what you have been doing if you were having a stroke.
You can smile and lift both arms up. no one having a stroke can do that. so stop scaring yourself. You are fine.
say it out aloud.
I am fine.
I can smile
I can raise my arms up
I can walk
I am healthy and fine
start telling yourself new messages...new things