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injury and illness fantasies tldr: does anyone else have fantasies about getting sick or injured and others feeling sympathy for you and how do you move past them? for as long as i can remember I've always had fantasies about getting injured or sick and having people feel sympathy for me and take care of me. as a little kid when i would play with my toys the stories i made up would always revolve around someone getting injured or sick and others taking care of them. I've always felt so embarrassed and ashamed of these fantasies and I've realized i probably bave these fantasies cause all I've ever wanted was someone to notice how much I'm struggling and actually comfort me and understand how hard everything is for me. but these fantasies just make me feel like a terrible person. I've never admitted this to anyone just cause of how awful it makes me feel when i think about the reality of my fantasies.

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I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m still in school, 15 I feel like I have friends but no one really likes me. Every day I come home feeling more like shit and I struggle to talk to anyone. I feel like I don’t connect with anyone and everyone gets along with each other then everybody thinks I’m a weirdo because I’m quiet. I hate being like this, Is this anxiety or am I just overreacting. I don’t want to give much more details but I really struggle to talk to people unless they make the first move. It feels like I’m a total outcast even teachers don’t want to talk to me. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, I wouldn’t say I’m ugly or weird besides being quiet. What do I do and how do I stop being so anxious when saying even the smallest thing to another person. I big myself up everyday and then I come home having done nothing different. I just got back to school after a long break since I had surgery and I’ve been feeling more depressed when coming home from school ever since.

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What propranolol dosage to take? I’ve been taking 10-20mg and still having panic attacks.

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Hey. I don't understand anxiety as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I'm not denying it's existance. That being said, Jessie J's description of it on the Diary of a CEO made me realise I might have it. I'm perfectly fine performing tasks in X situation but doing the same in Y I shake, have weakness lifting stuff etc based on environment, people etc. is this anxiety? I've not being diagnosed at all because this is a "recent" development.

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Any strange things you do when feeling anxious Started thinking about this today when out for a walk as I noticed myself constantly touching my bellybutton and stomach when I was starting to feel that tight, anxious feeling. I seem to do this without thinking and I am sure to people walking past, it looks a bit strange! I remember also in the past when I would get anxiety attacks or feelings of even slight panic, I would start touching my neck (maybe almost unconsciously due to my breathing). Not sure if it helps, but when I am not able to do it easily (say when driving or holding something) I feel a bit worse if that makes sense. These habits have developed very randomly for me over time and seem to come out as soon as I start having symptoms of anxiety and anxious thoughts. Just thought I'd ask if any of you have any strange practices you do, maybe even as a coping mechanism or way of bracing yourself when your anxiety is heightened. Anxiety is a strange kettle of fish but hope everyone is coping in their own way and getting through it one day at a time.

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Anyone else? I’ve been seeing a therapist for a few weeks. One of my questions I asked recently is: why do I always feel like I want things over with? I am not talking about life-ending. But it seems like I just want things over with. Anything. When I was in school; work; hanging out with people; going to an event etc etc etc My therapist said we can address it as we go further into our sessions. But wanted to know if anyone else feels this way?

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Does anyone know which SSRI is best for Anxiety and OCD? I have tried Prozac and while it does help a lot with my stabilizing my mood, I find it doesn't help much with anxiety. Can anyone share or recommend a good SSRI for anxiety and ocd, and if you also can share how well it has worked for you. Thank you

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Does anyone else suffer from dental anxiety? How have you cured it? I'm not talking about a fear of dentists. (Though I have that too) what I'm talking about is the fear of having something wrong with your teath. Worrying about every speck or black spot that I see. Checking my gums constantly to make sure that they are ok. I spend so much time in front of a mirror and a light checking to make sure there are no new signs of any dental issues. This is on top of brushing my teeth after everytime I eat (usually). It's getting so stressful for me. To the point where I dont really have the energy to do things that I want to do or hobbies. How the heck do I get this under control? Does anyone else suffer from this. I think part of my fear is that A) I've had bad experiences in the past with dentists/dental work. B) I've started taking care of my teeth now but I'm worried old problems will show up. C) I don't have the finances for something to go wrong with my teeth. I save as much as I can but I don't make all that much so yeah.

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SSRIs I had a drs appt this AM before work about starting meds for anxiety. Im anxious about taking meds in general and dont want to take SSRIs. Long story short, I came prepared and specifically asked for one of two meds (wellbutrin and buspar). The dr + supervising physician refused to prescribe either. One bc im at a high risk of seizures bc family history + alcoholism + other meds... that was the one I wanted most bc it does depression, anxiety, adhd, and helps w nicotine / alcohol cessation. The other one was the only other anxiety med I was willing to try and they said no bc it doesn't treat depression, only anxiety. The hypothesis is that my severe anxiety is the only reason I am able to function with slightly-less-severe depression, so they don't want to prescibe it bc the fear is if they treat the anxiety but not the depression I will quickly spiral into a deep depression. I haven't felt this depressed in quite a while. I don't want to take an SSRI, and it feels like my only option is that or panic attacks wherein I get so stressed out my blood pressure rises high enough to give me nosebleeds like an anime character.

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I KEEP PANICKING I NEED HELP. I keep worrying about anyersums everyday I know it's not likley but I've had this headache for 7 days I went to the doctor they said I should be fine just take three ibuprofen every night. Then my dad says I'm fine but I have to keep asking and saying I need to go to the er I'm having an anyersum or I need to get a ct scan or mri I'm freaking out everyday to the point where I can't take it anymore its ruining my life I'm so stressed out over some stupid fear of a brain anyersum I need some advice please.

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Employee Assistance Programs I have ADHD, anxiety, go through cycles of depression, a mild eating disorder, a family history of suicide attempts (I am not in any danger), and a high stakes job. Recently, I have been failing to meet expectations, having concentration and memory failures due to stress. I have been referred to the Employee Assistance Program for free counseling that will report to my employer. What exactly should I tell this person? I would love to hear and learn from the experiences of others before I say the wrong thing and get myself fired. It may already be too late.

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Rejection Sensitivity: The Real Reason You're Struggling in Relationships Listen & learn people. This is a Youtube video from "Healthy GamerGG". I found it very relateable and helpful and I think anyone who has struggled with social anxiety/rejection/whatever can learn a thing or two.

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I made huge embarrassing mistake at work while on a conference call with my manager and a client and I’m thinking of self-harming. What should I do? I don’t have the strength to kill myself but I want to hurt myself.

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My and my wife’s past trauma is causing lots of friction in our marriage Mine is mostly about past jobs I had that I hated that gave me lots of anxiety and I didn’t like how my boss talked to me Hers is about past relationship trauma where guys would talk to her wrong and/or hit her Sometimes she’ll be explaining how to do something to me and if I don’t immediately get it, her tone of voice will raise a little, which increases my anxiety and *weakens* my ability to focus, which makes her more frustrated with me, which makes me angry… and now we’re both triggered and yelling at each other and hurting each others feelings… repeat cycle every 2 weeks or so… we’ve been married for a year and a half now… I’ve tried telling her how what she says/how she says it affects me sometimes but she doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with what she’s doing Help?

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I don't know what to do I was doing well four months ago, then one single moment changed everything where my heart started racing, mouth went dry and I completely shut down. That moment lead me to leave my job. Since then I've been a mess, I'm constantly worried and anxious. I have an interview for a job on Thursday but as much as I want to get back into something, i can't stop panicking about it and I fear I'm going to back off. I've tried different techniques to try help but nothing seems to work.

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I’ve been reading this vape study I’m getting freaked out convinced I’m going to die. My future is fucked and I feel like giving up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913014/ Hello 20M and I quit vaping 3 months ago after vaping for 4 years and I have no plans on going back. Picked up this habit in high school (peer pressure) and it continued because I was in the same group of friends since then. Vaped here and there in high school and every damn day in college. Chain vaping 55 mg nic salt pretty much. Obviously this is my fault, but I can’t help but think my future is uncertain and I probably fucked up my health. My lung has been feeling weird for a few months now and it’s causing me anxiety. It’s getting to the point where I don’t even want to do anything in college that could help my career because I think I’m going to die in the near future. Like what’s the point. Im convinced I’m going to die from lung cancer sometime in the future or cardiac issues. I’ve been having chest pain and it’s scary. I take an snri rn and it’s helping but the thoughts won’t go away. It’s getting to the point where I’m reconsidering my whole life because I feel like I ruined it. I’m very depressed and anxious about it and I wish I knew vaping was absolutely terrible for you before I even started. I know this post may seem dramatic but this is what goes through my head every morning until I sleep. I keep thinking it wasn’t supposed to be this way. I’ve gotten straight As my entire life, been going to the gym, eating right. Im in college about to go into a career path that’s exciting and the future potentially could have been great but I have my one single vice that I was too stupid to quit. Damn idk I just needed to vent because it gets exhausting. I feel like I have no one to talk to about this kind of stuff. Obv my parents don’t know about this they just think I’m very distressed and depressed about school or smt. I see all of my peers off doing amazing things with their lives and I’m just going through this bs. It’s pathetic the person I’ve become. Younger me would’ve died if he saw what I turned into. Throwing away life it seems like just for a little buzz. I’ve been trying to get my friends off this shit too but they prob see me as biased due to my health anxiety with vaping.They are great but I can’t help but feel I wouldn’t be in this situation if I stayed away from the red flags. Once one person starts doing it it’s like dominos and no one thinks twice about it being bad. Damn my whole life building up to smt and I just jeopardize it over bullshit. I just needed to vent, the health anxiety is getting bad to the point where Im certain cancer or a heart attack is coming and there’s no point anymore.

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Work trips are terrifying I’m prepared to be called all sorts of names. I’ve had people tell me this is unhealthy and to get serious help. Like I don’t know that. This will get buried in the flood of posts. I’ll try still. My partner is going on a work trip. She’s been on a couple before but never outside the country. It simply terrifies me. I want to support her. I have severe anxiety. I do take medication and get professional help. But it’s still hard. The thought of being home alone for 4-5 days roughly with my partner a 10 hour flight away in another nation worries me. I don’t know what to say or do. I’m probably nothing more than a burden of a partner and a person in general. I’ve had two funerals in the last two months too. I’m just tired and very, very nervous.

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Do you ever get intense “chills” with your anxiety? From time to time when my anxiety is acting up, I start shivering almost violently. All of my muscles clench so hard that sometimes my abdomen begins to hurt. It usually appears to be related to feeling cold, but not always. For example, I had a cat attacked by a stray dog a little while back, and before I could do anything to help her I nearly fell to the ground I got these “chills” so bad. I had to sit down and take a bunch of deep breaths before I could function. I couldn’t even look at her or I’d just start shaking worse. I think the correlation to the cold is psychological. I walk into a cold room or get out of my warm bed and it starts, but usually only when I’m worried that it might happen to begin with. Does this sound like a standard anxiety response to you all?

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Social media addict Tik Tok Algorithm freaking me out. For starters I procrastinate too much I manage to do okay but I know I waste time. Recently my Tik Tok has been infested with investment bankers and even scammer type video of people in their 20’s making $600,000k per year. I know the fallacy that social media is fake. But it is making me spiral a little. I go to a T100 law school which is decent and I have decent grades even an interview soon. I just feel I wasted so much time and energy and should have aimed to be making that 600+ already. The legal internships I’m applying for as full time jobs don’t make that kinda money but still money I’m comfortable with. But now I’m thinking I need to aim for that for the sake of my struggling parents and my current gf who comes from wealth and doesn’t currently work but loves luxury.

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How do I calm down and what should I do? For context, I'm in high school. My anxiety has been super bad lately and it's been causing me to miss school a lot. My mom convinced me to go today and it was horrible. My science teacher is a great teacher but he can be pretty harsh sometimes telling us our year is the worst, our generation is the worst, smirking when we do badly on quizzes. Despite all that stuff I really do respect him as a teacher and he's good at the material. I just needed someone to vent to about him so I went to my counselor who I loved. She listened and offered insight but then I had to leave. At the end of the day my science teacher pulls me aside and tells me that my counselor told him everything. He said she told him that I said stuff that he doesn't remember saying (it's definitely possible he doesn't remember but it did happen) and that I was holding on to stuff from the past which wasn't true as he says similar stuff pretty much daily. The worst part is my counselor completely misunderstood one of my rants. She told him I was upset that he wasn't immediately able to help with something and that I had to wait. That wasn't at all true. And he said that he thought I would have understood so I explained she misunderstood and he seemed to believe me. I just think he believes I asked her to go to him for me so he's mad I didn't directly speak with him. He was really respectful one on one which I forget he is sometimes because of how he treats our class as a whole. I just feel really bad, I don't always agree with him but I never wanted to hurt anyones feelings. I was just going to someone I thought I could trust to talk things out. I'm not even really mad at my science teacher I'm just frustrated that my counselor went behind my back like that. I feel horrible though. I cried for 2 hours and I don't ever want to go back to school again. I feel like such an awful person. What should I do and how do I stop replaying everything in my mind?

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Really struggling this week with my health anxiety wondering if anyone has the same issues? So I am on my last leg of a series of work trips away from home. I have 3 days left but the last few days have been terrible. I am constantly on edge worried my heart is going to give out to make matters worse I am waking up early in the morning in my hotel with a racing heart beat so my sleep is terrible. To make matters worse I am periodically getting pins and needles feelings in my extremities and/or face which is further driving my heart anxiety. I am a 43 year old male that is healthy and only slightly overweight and had a physical less than a year ago with no issues and low cholesterol ect. Even with this knowledge I still worry I am going to die alone in my hotel of a heart attack and just cannot seem to get my head straight. Anyone else have this issue or have had it in the past? Could really use some encouragement and advice. I feel like I should go to the ER to double check everything is ok but whenever I do this I end up paying hundreds to be told it is anxiety related. Appreciate any advice as I’m really struggling

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Had a really bad panic attack yesterday I have no history of anxiety. Yesterday, I had a really bad panic attack and had to go to the ER. They ran tests and said my heart was fine. A day later im still having lots of discomfort in my chest as well as breathing problems. Is this normal? Any advice on what I should do?

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I am failing I (19m) have a problem. I am failing at almost every aspect of life. I am failing 3 of my 5 classes in college, I don't have a job, I am riddled with anxiety. I lying to my parents that I am doing well in school, that I am saving money for an apartment, and that I am happy. I love my mom more than anything and after a rough childhood she values the truth more than anything but I continue to lie to her about my life. I am a month and a half away from finishing this semester and her finding out my discrepancy. I had a great first semester but now I'm just digging a grave for myself. Im lost and scared. I don't want to leave school due to my girlfriend being here and me for the most part loving my major. I need to find a way to pass my classes or find a solution. I am destroying myself, and I wish I could fix the mistakes that lead me to this point. Please someone give me some wisdom.

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is it normal to become extremely scared of irrational things? I get so scared at night and not even of normal stuff. Like I feel like a normal person would be scared of an intruder or a spider or something. I get scared like what if the portal to hell is outside my door or what if the sky changes color all of a sudden or what if I go to the bathroom and everything is upside down. Is this normal if not what does it mean

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Has anyone had any luck curing or improving their anxiety by removing coffee from their diet completely? And if so how did you do this, did you replace with green tea or no caffeine? etc

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Has anyone taken prozak? Has anyone taken prozak before? If so what was your experience? I am nervous about taking it.

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Does removing yourself from social media help? Has anyone here taken themselves off of all social media for a long period and if so did it help with anxiety? Would you recommend it?

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I hate this So I was eating a bit of these cinnamon honey coated almonds and this one I ate tasted horrible, kinda had this strong after taste after you had some strong alcoholic drink. I realized too late and swallowed it. I of course searched it just to make sure it wasn't just me and now im scared, bitter almonds slow down ur nerves, breathing is slow, and causes death. I'm freaking out, it was just one but still. Any help?!

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Had a freak out at the dentist I was at the dentist to go get a cavity filled, I was somewhat nervous at first but nothing intense, it wasn’t until they gave me laughing gas I started getting derealization and started feeling weird and told them to stop and take it off, after they removed it they continued and put this rubber thing in my mouth, then I started to freak out because I wasn’t able to breath through my mouth because of it, and when I was breathing out through my nose it started slowing or stopping a bit because it was making my throat stop a little, then it made me gag and they had to stop the procedure, it was embarrassing but at the same time I was disappointed, I wasnt able to control myself, usually I breathe in and out through my mouth but it felt different and weird to only be able to breathe through nose. I’m doing the procedure again in 6 months, I need help to calm myself down

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Trying Lithium Orotate for Anxiety I am giving Lithium **Orotate** a go for my anxiety. First time trying it. Will report back over the coming days if it helps! What's others feedbacks?

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Severe guilt Does anyone else feel an overwhelming amount of guilt when feeling angry at other people? I think it may partially be rooted in my abandonment issues but recently my boyfriend had been kinda dickish but I never brought anything up cuz I kept convincing myself that it was my fault and that it’s not a big deal and I’m being too dramatic. I brought it up finally at my tipping point and he said something that really hurt my feelings (also dickish) and I asked if I could have some space before we talked again. At the beginning it was fine but now I’m starting to feel it again, I’m scared I’m being too needy for him and that when I tell him I can talk he’s gonna tell me he realized he doesn’t like me so much anymore and we should breakup. Rationally I DOUBT this is gonna happen but I can’t help but thinking it’s my fault?!? I feel so guilty.

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I need advice regarding taking Lorazepam So basically I’ve suffered anxiety for a few years now but more recently in the past couple months I feel it’s taken over my life with intense physical symptoms and constant brain fog as well, it’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to live. My doctor prescribed me Lorazepam as a way to help get through this stage about 5 days ago and I’ll be the first to say it’s done wonders for me and when I take it I feel way better and it makes life bearable. My only issue is Ik how addictive Benzos are so I don’t wanna take it everyday but on days I don’t take it I feel the usual physical symptoms panic attacks and feeling like shit all day. I want to possibly meet with a psychiatrist to find a more long term and safer solution but it’s hard because my doctors booked out for weeks. Does anyone know a way to speed up this process and also recommendations for what I should being in my current situation? I rlly don’t wanna get addicted to Benzos and idk how long that takes but I don’t wanna risk it (I’m on a small dosage of 0.5 mg a day)

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why I can't shower? hi, can I have depression without knowing, I have anxiety but it don't stop me from doing things I like except showering, I don't really have any motivation to shower, but I can do anything beside showering I'm really confused :|

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Consultation i can take eszopiclone 3 mg with mirtazapine 45 mg also i was take sertraline 150 mg i have Terrible problems with insomnia even i do the sleep study i have obstructive sleep apnea My Treatment Plan sertraline 150 My Treatment Plan mirtazapine 60 sulpiride 200 zolpidem 5

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My brain seems over-active in social settings, especially After been diagnosed a year ago with diabetes, this has took my energy trying to fix it, and thanks to the medication on max dose and diet changes, this seems to now be working. Next, I want to fix my anxiety, which got worse in last years, due to a few things, like the diabetes, lock-downs, and struggles with such . My brain seems over-active, like if I see someone pass next to my front window, it will make me flinch. If doorbell goes it can do that. Would you say I have General anxiety? \- My eyes look ugly and intense when I am anxious, and I hate eye contact when like this. \- Haven't been able to orgasm for many years due to constantly rushing my thoughts. \- Struggle with eye contact when anxiety is high or confidence is low. \- Find it hard to show natural emotions, like smile etc. It's faked. \- I am use to routines. I want to overcome the above naturally. I do exercise and have gone out on walks each week either by myself or with parents / family. I try various natural supplements that might just help. The latest I am trying is lithium. What helped you, do you have the above symptoms? I want to fix the above and make a new friend / partner (though I am asexual), and go on holiday. I'd like that! But it feels impossible atm.

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Antibiotics anxiety I have a pretty nasty sinus infection causing fluid in my ear and it’s causing vertigo. I have pretty bad anxiety/ panic attacks and ocd. They prescribed me amoxicillin and I’m terrified to take it because of the potential psychological effects. Can anyone that have had them weigh in and tell me they’re not that bad? I don’t know. I want to feel better but i can’t handle more anxiety than what I already deal with (unmedicated.) Just hoping for some guidance here

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Bout of Bad Anxiety - Should I consider Therapy. Over the last 2 weeks my (30M) Anxiety had gotten worse to the point of finding it difficult to sleep, no appetite, tight chest, can't focus on work and upset stomach. My doctor proscribed me some very low dose xanax for 10 days and also some other anxiety meds that take around 2 weeks to start working. I'm hesitant to take any of it though, I don't want to feel dependent on meds and then when i stop taking them, the anxiety comes back. My long term girlfriend and I broke up earlier in 2022, but we would sometimes keep in touch and see each occasionally. We went to college together, but didnt date in college, so alot of her friends are my friends also. She moved 6 hrs away for a job before we broke up and that was part of why we broke up, along with other things. It was easy being with her from the friends aspect but deep down inside there were some things that really bothered me about our relationship. We always tried to make it work but it just didn't. She ended things with me, but we are on good terms. She recently told me that she is seeing someone, and ever since then it has bothered the hell out of me and have had all this anxiety since. Its making me think did I make the right decision in pretty much agreeing to break up, to the point we spoke on the phone and she said, sorry but it's over between us. I have gotten anxiety bouts before but its always about job deadlines or things that once over the anxiety goes away. This is different, I know my relationship with her in a romantic way is over, and the severity of this anxiety is much worse than anything I have felt. before. Should i consider going to therapy or will just pass in due time? Thought...

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DAE: have difficulty doing the easiest of tasks like for example showering when the anxiety has been severe? I feel so embarassed about it

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trying to cope is killing me too... ive been isolating myself and unintentionally staying sick (ulcers and other stomach problems) bc its the only way the self hatred and obsessive thoughts that eat up my mind subside and also i forget easily since feeling this weak. this situation has been overextending to the point where idk how bad it is, im very swollen and dont digest properly... i have palpitations every day and a very slow heart rate. I just feel very alone and i know its not worth it to keep going like this... but i have no assistance and no one really, i know this burden shouldn't be carried by a friend but i wish i were able to give and at least have 1 relationship that works. My family is very strange and manipulative, it wasnt until now that ive been realizing a bunch of shit about them. Still, i havent done anything for myself or protected my space. i dont know how to deal with this...

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New job anxiety Start a new job in a couple hours, only thing I'm really anxious about is I live in a part if the United States which is like 90% spanish speaking and I dont speak a word of it. That in itself has made it difficult to find a job, but I found this graveyard shift general labor, hoping it makes speaking only English easier for me. I'm only gonna work for a few months, 90 days at the most since its a temp thing anyway, just saving so i can move out of here.

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Scared to buy motrin I don’t know what got me reading but I had no idea about the cyanide motrin incident that happened and I feel like I really need motrin right now but am terrified to buy it

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head fullness/pressure for over a month ive started getting new and uncomfortable symptoms. it started with fatigue/weakness, morning heart palpitations waking me up and arms/legs feeling some type of nervous energy. as of 10+ days ago the fatigue is pretty much gone, i dont seem to have the heart palpitations as much or at all. i was having night sweats often the first few weeks too thats stopped also. but im left with this head pressure or clamy feeling in my head all day. in the morning i feel the sides of my head in the temple region throbbing and some times i can end up happening during the evening too. my head just feels full during the day, and i seem to feel disoriented too and just sensitive to so much. i dont even know how to explain it all. ive been avoiding the gym which i was loving before these new odd symptoms showed up. occasionally ill get some relief in my head and when i did i went to workout and everything was fine but thats only happened twice in this past 30+ days.

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Physical symptoms So my therapist gave me an idea and a bit of a tip. She told me when she was going through her anxiety and health anxiety she used to have pains and obsess over them like I do. Well she told me she started working out so whenever her body was sore she tricked her brain into thinking it was from working out and it kinda was.. so it helped her Well today my heart always just goes insane even laying in bed . I jumped up and started dancing as soon as I felt my heart go weird . I mean I figured I’d give it something to go wild about 😂 In theory should work right ? it was funny non the less

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Work Anxiety I just started working at a new place a few days ago, people there super nice and it’s a good environment. But my previous work place (the first place I worked at, so this is my second job) Was a horrible. Very toxic and I’d go home crying every time. (I can go over a whole list of things that happened there) I already had a lot of anxiety but now even more then before. I loved it when I had no job, I never had to worry about putting on a mask for customers and coworkers or the responsibilities that come with a job. I hate the long hours because I can feel myself slowly breaking down inside. And when I get back home my anxiety goes through the roof for when I gotta work next. Even if I got days off, I’m so so so freaking worried that they’ll call me to come in when I’m not mentally prepared. I got to have time to psych myself up for work. I’m deep into customer service too so all customers scare me. I just Idk what to do, I’m an adult living with my parents and they pay for a lot of my stuff and I don’t want them to have to do that anymore. But I hate feeling on edge and heaps of anxiety all the time. I don’t know what to do 😓 Really needing advice or someone to chat to

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Dizziness help? How to get rid of dizziness when out of the house? It feels really weird and I get afraid that I’ll pass out

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how do i calm down when i get anxious while studying? due to mental health i've been slightly struggling with uni studies lately. part of why i'm mentally not doing well is because i've grown up with a rather abusive father and one of the things that he's really forced on me has been to do well in studies, like that's just something that's been going on since i started school so this brings me to how extremely anxious i get while studying which usually is at home. it can take a while or it can take a few minutes but majority of the times i get so extremely anxious or just straight up have a panic attack in the middle of it. the part that causes this isn't that 'if i don't study well enough and pass this or that exam i'll struggle even more with uni' but 'if i don't study well enough and pass this or that exam i'll en up in trouble by my dad' ultimately i know it's always gonna be 'study for your own sake, not anyone else's' but after growing up with a father that's so abusive in so many ways, it's hard to not make that association and just break out until i can't even focus on studying so my question is, making that association or not, does anyone have any advice on how i at the very least can calm down or put myself at ease when this happens while studying?

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Becoming "hyper-aware" of your existence and feeling dissociated I'll add a little background first, im a 35 year old male and have never had any diagnosed conditions or health problems in general. I have always been extremely shy, social + health anxiety, low confidence, never had a girlfriend, no friends since I moved to a different part of the country when I was about 22. Over time I think I have been able to numb it down, creating explanations and reasonings in my mind, and used video games as an escape. For the last 10 years or so, my life have been: ​ \- Wake up and eat breakfast \- Go to work \- Come home and shower \- Make and eat dinner \- Some kind of workout \- Sit at computer \- Sleep and repeat \- Every other weekend I visit my mom, who I spend quality time with and help out since she has a condition that keeps her from doing many things herself ​ But a week ago i was hit like a truck with massive depression and anxiety, realizing what my life have been these last 10 years. I feel like I have wasted so much time, especially on the weekends where I was at home doing nothing, instead of going to my mom or just doing anything productive. I got thoughts about existential dread, death and what our purpose really is. I got crushing anxiety about my mom dying and me not spending enough time with her, and also because she is the only person in the world that truly knows me, understands me and that I can be myself with. ​ I feel like an alcoholic over 10 years who just suddenly stopped drinking from one day to the next - now the video games do nothing for me, I can't "escape" and I'm lost for purpose. My appetite is very unstable and my mind is racing, especially when I try to sleep, which has led to sleepless nights with my heart racing in panic and having constant disaster thoughts that I can't stop. I keep thinking "Am I sick? Am I going insane? Do I have a brain tumor?" and many more thoughts of that kind. I also get this weird feeling somethimes of being "disconnected" or "dissociated" to the world. I become hyper-aware of my existence and my actions and thoughts and it makes everything feel weird. In this state, I feel like im "acting" like myself, when I'm with others - like I'm something unexplainable controlling this physical body or seeing the world from a 3rd person view. Has anyone else experienced this or gone though something similar? ​ I have started on antidepressant and anxiety medicine and started seeing a psycologist, but just wanted to share in hopes of getting some feedback or tools to combat these things.

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How I am *almost* over my Health Anxiety Quick intro: 3 years a go I had an incident in the shower that mimicked a stroke. I came out of it unharmed but it messed me up psychologically. Ever since then my body takes any feeling it gets and goes into panic mode. Now i hate driving, i hate taking a shower, i hate exercising. You name it, if i makes me hot, i get anxious. At onc point i was so anxious showering i had to sit down and hold on for dear life the entire time i was in there. Now i'm about 80% over it. and form my experience the only way over it - is to go through it. And what i mean by that is you need to face this demon head on. I know its the last thing you want to hear but trust me. If you never face it you will be running forever. However it will take time for your brain to rewrite its default path ways. So at the moment the default behavior is fear, and to curl up and say please dont hurt me. So your brain interprets it as a threat and will spiral out of control causing all sorts of symptoms the worst of which being a panic attack. Now next time you start getting the fear coming on try this instead. Say to your fear out loud "Just kill me then" "Bring it on" "Lets see what you can do" and taunt your fear and let what ever you think is going to happen happen. by wanting the what ever it is you are afraid of to happen will make the fear vanish. Another thing to think. If you were to say have a heart attack it would just happen... whether you worried or not. Worrying isnt going to some how miraculously save you. At my lowest - the turning point for me was when i just thought i'd rather be dead than to feel like this anymore. and from then on i basically laid down my life to my fear and said just kill me. Kill me now or shut the fuck up. I needed to hit rock bottom so I could rebuild my brain the right way. and for a few weeks i just kept saying "Kill me now or shut up" over and over until my brain started using the new default behavior. It can take months to retrain your brain and then add years on that to fully forget. but this is what is working for me. TLDR: Taunt your fear. egg it on. call it out. ask it to do its worst even if it kills you. Let it flow through you and out the other side I bet nothing bad happens TLDR 2: If you were going to die it would just happen... whether you worried or not. Worry isnt going to some how miraculously save you

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I feel like I'm having a heart attack again I'm 23 years old and I suffer from cardiopobia. I ate more sugar today than I've eaten in over two months and my heart is racing super fast. I can't breathe and my hands are.tingling and burning so much it's freaking me the hell out. I know I'm young but it just freaks me out sometimes. I would greatly appreciate some reassurance 😮‍💨

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Health anxiety I’m a type 1 diabetic and in my teenage years it was a rough time where I fainted multiple times because of low blood sugar, some of them was so bad where I ended in a diabetes coma and other my family was pretty sure that I wouldn’t make it, I could get up in the morning and be completely dizzy not knowing what was going around, I would look at my watch and not understand what time it was, I got mri scanned and everything was fine. While being young and dumb, I didn’t really care and I thought I was immortal living life with 200 kmp even though my body was screaming after a break. A few years later in 21, I caught Covid-19 a pretty bad one and I have got asthma afterwards, while being sick with Covid-19 I realized that I wasn’t immortal at all, I realized how vulnerable our body really is, the thoughts started to getting into me from the times I fainted and my covid process. I have become afraid of everything and connects it with heart problems, cancer, brain tumor ect. My body can’t be doing anything before I’m convinced that I’m getting the worst news soon, I’m always prepared to say “I knew it”, it’s driving me insane, the last few months it have been brain tumor that is making me going dumb because of a tension headache even though it’s probably just work related (I’m a teacher) and because I sit and work in different positions that isn’t great for either my neck or back. I don’t recognize my self as said before, I have become distend from my friends, I never seen them or talk with them anymore, always finding excuses to not get out of the house, I stopped playing soccer, guess why? Because I’m thinking I will be getting a cardiac arrest if I do so. It have been hard the last 2 years, causing stress, depression and healthy anxiety, not diagnosed yet, only with stress. I know I need help, but how do I get it? I’m not used to getting help, I have solved my own problems ever since I was a kid. Do I just call the doctor and say “hey I think I have a depression and bad health anxiety” or what do I even say? This really sucks..

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Some positivity Coming up on a month on 50 mg of zoloft, and just over a month since the start of this anxiety thing. I'd say I'm 80% better. Almost all of the physical symptoms have subsided and the mental aspect has greatly improved. I've had small spikes here and there and my heart races like once a day for a few minutes, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! For those in a similar situation keep your chin up and keep going, it gets better 😀

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Anxiety over living in an apartment I’m going to have to live in an apartment when I start school, and I’m scared about noises, whether it is them being too loud or me being too loud. I’m scared that someone will accidentally shoot a gun and it will go through the wall and hit me while I’m sleeping or something. I’m scared the building will collapse on top of me. I’m scared that one apartment will start a fire and burn down the building while my pet is inside. I have a lot of fears over this and it is making me not want to go to school. I can’t afford to rent a house though unless I have roommates, which I don’t want. It’s been stressing me out a lot.

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Intrusive thoughts I feel like my intrusive thoughts are winning right now, and I feel bad for every thought. I feel like a terrible person and I need to remove myself from everyone because I'm a terrible person and no one would want me around. My inner voice is very mean and I just don't know anymore. I'm just so tired of it all. Does anyone have their own tip/trick to dealing with their intrusive thoughts? Thank you in advance

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Is it rude to specifically ask for a male therapist? Edit - First, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I (F 25) live in the UK and our health service is free (well we pay for it with taxes) and I’m nervous about this as it might be that there aren’t many therapists to choose from and for some reason most are female and I don’t want to insult their ability I just struggle to open up to females.

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How many and what kind of medical tests you’ve got done due to your health anxiety? Very curious !

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I’m currently stuck in a very vicious cycle. To cut it short, I had a horrible stomach bug a little more than three weeks ago and still haven’t fully recovered. The symptoms are giving me anxiety, and the anxiety is making my symptoms worse. I still have an exam that I need to retake, but when I think about it, my symptoms get worse again and I feel too sick to go back to school… It’s only stretching out my healing process more and I really don’t know how I can fix this.

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I’m Awkward I started a new job about 6 months ago and I am soooo awkward at work. I don’t know how to make small talk, i get nervous just talking to coworkers. I have to think a lot to even build my sentence. And a lot of times, I just nervously ramble off topic or take things too literally. My brain is literally overthinking whenever I speak at work. How do I deal with this? Any advice on how to make small talk without being awkward?

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Not doing well My existential OCD is so severe right now. I spend hours online trying to find answers to unanswerable questions, I have to ‘check’ my and every other person’s actions, words, feelings to see if they are ‘good’ or just a way to cover up or distract from our misery ( hard to explain but makes sense in my head). Literally everything I used to enjoy I question and find flaws with and life feels like an unreal nightmare and I can’t stop questioning the nature of reality and it’s driving me insane. I’m on Zoloft and buspar but they don’t seem to be helping. I have Klonopin but i just saw an article that benzodiazepines cause cancer so now I have no relief. I’m seeing a somatic therapist for the first time on Friday and I hope she can help. I just want to wake up from this nightmare

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Should i be worried about my high blood pressure? I recently have been really struggling with anxiety and started taking Lexapro a week ago. So far I haven’t noticed a benefit from the drug but it’s my understanding it can take up to 6 weeks to work. Anyways when I was at the doctor 2 weeks ago my bp was elevated. Since then I’ve been measuring it daily and noticed it’s consistently high (140/90). Now ive got more anxiety worrying that I’ll get a heart attack or something. Just could use some reassuring words. Also is it normal for anxiety to spike your blood pressure? I’ve been trying to exercise and eat better the past week to help but not seeing a result yet.

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I’m honestly at a loss, I don’t know what to do anymore I’ve struggled with anxiety for years, but the way it’s come back recently has me really worried for my well-being. I haven’t been able to eat properly in a couple weeks. I’ll feel hungry, but I’m so anxious that I feel like gagging whenever I try to eat. I’m struggling immensely to complete university assignments. I keep handing in things late and poorly done because I just feel like I can’t focus no matter what I do. I don’t know how to bounce back. It feels like my only reprieve is when I sleep or get high, so I’ve been doing a lot of that, but I know it’s just delaying my inevitable anxiety when it wears off. I’m really in need of help and I don’t know what to do

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scared to start meds / scared of feeling off So i have been suffering from awful derealization/depersonalisation, anxiety, ocd, and panic attacks for a couple of years now but it’s always come and gone. Ever since last year after going through a traumatic event it’s shifted my entire life to now only being able to focus on my anxiety. there are days that i get better and days where i have bad flair ups. I actively go to therapy and have recently started seeing a psychiatrist and nutritionist to see if i could figure out how to solve all these issues especially the derealization as it causes me to feel so out of it and almost high 24/7 as it has been prevalent for the last year especially now. I have been prescribed zoloft before but I had the absolute worst adverse reaction to it and has made me terrified to start any ssris. Recently my psychiatrist had prescribed me prozac but my therapist and nutritionist advise me against it as they do not think that my case is that severe. Where I am currently having an issue with is the fact that my biggest fear/ocd trigger is not feeling normal such as the fear of weed and I typically stay away from alcohol as I do not like how i feel when I drink. I am so scared to start meds or even vitamins that contain magnesium because I am so afraid of the “high” feeling or derealization feeling but now don’t know where to go from here. If anyone has advice on how to get over this substance ocd I would greatly appreciate it.

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Whats goin on with me For context a few days agoa i researched a disease called als and 1 day later i started displaying symptoms after researching I need help

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Have Anxiety over a meetup between my fiancé (f) and her old friend from 3 years ago Im also invited and the dude is the only one who was kind to her back then but she also said he is just a friend and she doesn’t see him as a date material but im still very anxious about it what can i do ? The meetup is in two weeks

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Brain tumor thoughts consuming my life Hi all, For the past 3 years I have had some strange symptoms that are persistent, I have a pressure in my forehead, constant dizziness (room not spinning). I had a brain MRI back in August 2021 without contrast which came back clear, but I do feel as though something may have been missed as I have the symptoms above. It is consuming my life, I think about it everyday, it's getting to the point where it's driving me to the point of wanting to unalive myself - I can't talk to my family about it as I spoke about my worries a couple of years ago and things got pretty bad.

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How did you overcome severe gym anxiety? Hello! I'm a gym newbie here, and I've been *really* struggling with going to the gym. I have no excuses anymore. I've been telling myself that once I move closer to a gym, once I get a good daily routine in, once I get a job that starts later, so on and so forth... well the stars aligned and I got a gym membership! No more excuses. Except I've got some sort of gymphobia. I have always felt this way, even went a couple times as a teenager with my dad. I was freaked out then, too. I went once with my boyfriend right after I got the membership and I wanted to cry the ENTIRE TIME. I was SO self-conscious, to the point it affected my movements. I wasn't focusing on lifting, I was focusing on being quiet, who could see me, how light my weights were, etc. I stared at the clock, couldn't talk louder than a whisper, clung to his side... It was a massive relief to leave and I subconsciously let out a huge sigh the minute the door shut behind us. Tried going just to treadmill the other day, walked in and went straight to the bathroom because I was so ANXIOUS! There was only one treadmill being used but I was so worried he'd see me trying to figure it out. I got so shakey and almost started crying again so I left the bathroom and went straight home. I know for the sake of my mental health I need to overcome this, even if I find out the gym just isn't for me. This is absolutely my anxiety, particularly social anxiety and body dysphoria. What makes me anxious - - being near other people working out (?!?!) - seeing my reflection in the mirror - using light weights (THEY ARE ALL LIGHT so I am just constantly anxious lmao) - how long it takes me to set up/figure out a machine - maybe someone else needs what I have and they are annoyed with me - someone else using what I want and not know what to sub - anyone talking to me in any capacity lmao - my form (I'm new so logically I know it'll be incorrect but other people may judge me) I'm tempted to shell out money for a personal trainer and a therapist. I'm sick of my anxiety and my body as it is, but I wanted to hear yalls advice. Since this has been causing me so much anxiety forever, and it directly relates to my body dysphoria and anxiety, I feel like overcoming this is going to be a HUGE breakthrough for my mental health. I'd really appreciate your insight.Thank you!

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Health anxiety - germs worry Tonight I met with a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time. We had a great time, had a few beers and chatted loads. We then decided to have a cigarette. Yes I know it’s bad but it’s been a while since we had one and we were having a good time so went ahead with it. I accidentally dropped mine on the street and proceeded to pick it up and smoked it anyway. It’s probably a few seconds after dropping and the pavement is on a relatively quiet area but still in a public areas. I didn’t think much of it but after a few hours I’m sitting here worried. I am afraid that I might’ve caught something from smoking the cigarette dropped on the pavement. I’ve always been a bit germaphobe so this is making my thoughts worse. I can’t sleep … Anyone here ever tried smoking a cigarette dropped on the floor? Sorry for the rant…. Just can’t stopped worrying.

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Is anybody else tired all the time? Even if I get a good night’s sleep, the second I think about what I have to face in the day and work etc I just feel instantly exhausted

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Why does my heart rate fall when I'm having an episode? Hey all, Hope you're all doing alright today :) I've suffered from overthinking and general anxiety for a while. Being in my final year of university has been overwhelming to the point where I started seeking professional help. My doctor prescribed some beta blockers to me and asked me to take them when necessary - I've not thought of taking them until today. I think I hit my breaking point today. I have way too much to do and I haven't been able to manage things well. I felt some aches and tightness in my chest and throat, got cold hands and feet, and starting stress sweating (the smell was putrid). I could also feel my heart pounding in my chest. I decided to check my heart rate and I was surprised to find out that it was in the mid 50s. I didn't take my first dose of beta blockers and I'm waiting to speak to my doctor tomorrow. Has anyone faces this before? Shouldn't stress and anxiety cause my heart rate to shoot up instead of dive?

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I need some desperate help, and maybe some words of advice. Hello, I'm mason and As of lately since the start of grade 11. We where told we basically had to choose are pathway as in our job, or related field anyways as of late I wanted to follow in my uncles path and become a personal investor, and since he's already high up I'd have a job lined up for me as i get outta high school and more, the only catch. " I knew i had anxiety but ever since i choose what I wanted to do math is now associated with anxiety" to make it worse I was labeled a troubled kid when i was younger in life so as a result we moved a lot, and I never had a long friendship making me easy targets for people who love drama. So as i was growing I was taking speical classes since I had bad adhd aswell, so I wasn't getting the right credited for really anything in life and was basically labelled a special needs since they never put time into me. as a result i started trying better and Finally was able to upgrade to college level everything in grade 10 keep and keep in mind I was in high school in grade 8 due to this special program, and now they they teach me like any other kid. I've found it very hard to do anything since i grew up getting 1-1 attention, now since High school math is broken and 50% u will most likely never use in real life depending on the career you pick although the one i wanted to get into was "money related" I most diffidently don't need trig, etc anyways " I really need help finding out how to coop with anxiety, this only happens during math aswell, So i know the trigger, and i know hen i clam myself down and I'm very happy before math i do better during math. but for some reason anytime my teacher ignores me for example today " I rasied my hand to kep my practice quiz checked nobody else had their hand up" so i wait she see's says one second and goes to 5 different people none of them had their hands out and forgot that i eveen asked so i promptly left teh class and went outside to get air or i was gonna start crying for the stress, angry anxiety and everything why are my emotions 10x whenever i'm in math is their even any way to fix this issue?"

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Was this sexual abuse? I’m (F25) not sure how to write this. I’ve never put down my memories to paper let alone tell anyone. A family member would do certain things between (from what little I can remember) the ages of 7-15. These things made me feel uncomfortable and I asked multiple times for it to stop to no avail. I want to protect their identity so calling them X. 1. X never let me lock the bathroom door when I shower X walks right in and has conversations with me even though the shower doors are see-through. This still happens now at 25yo. I used to lock the door when I was younger but X would use a coin to open the door and would leave it wide open so I just stoped locking the door and forget to every time now. 2. X have always sneaked up the stairs and burst into my room on purpose. Dispute multiple times asking X to knock. If I’m just out a shower and wearing a towel I’ll always ask X to leave but X scoffs as if I should be less embarrassed and I’m weak for being embarrassed about being naked. 3. When I was younger if I would touch myself X would take enjoyment from bursting into my room and surprising me and made me feel dirty and mentally fucked up for doing so. X would also watch through a crack in the door (caught them sometimes) before bursting in. 4. X would ask to see my breasts and say it was to compare mine to theirs and any time I said I didn’t want to I was made to feel silly for being embarrassed like it was no big deal. 5. X used to ask me to shower with them. Well over the age I needed anyone to wash my hair. Still asking me at 15. X would again scoff if I said no and plead for me to join them as if I was not wanting quality time with them. 6. X flashes me (still does) and leaves the door to the bathroom wide open when they shower and sometimes calls me over to chat with them on purpose as if they want to see my reaction to seeing them naked. 7. X would insist on checking me ‘down there’ when I was younger and would put cream on me saying there was a rash but I never saw one. I remember getting older and being adamant that I could do it myself but X got furious with me. 8. X gets into my bed without asking when I’m in bed or when I’m not and asks me to cuddle them in their bed and gets angry when I say no. The next two are hard for me to type…I don’t feel ready but this platform has been really supportive so far so here goes. For content X definitely physically abused me and still emotionally abuses me and I think they are narcissistic. 9. Growing up and even sometimes now I go into a childlike mind and put on a higher pitched child like voice (this cringes me so much so please don’t say anything nasty about this). Once when I was around 16 I was hugging X in their bed and was in this childlike state. They played into it and said ‘aww my baby, do you want to suck milk’ and I for some disgusting reason that bothers me to this day I nodded and X got their breasts out and I ….I can’t type the rest but I don’t think I need to. 10. Again difficult to put down to writing. This one I don’t know if it’s in my head. When I was younger X would ask me to sit on their lap. I would feel (or think I did) them pushing up their private part on my body. I would feel uncomfortable and would sit in a different position but it would keep happening and I learnt to ignore it. Sorry for the left hoy post but because this is not obvious or classic case of sexual abuse (I think) I’m just unsure if it was. I know this person would take it very badly if they knew I was thinking this and I feel like I’m betraying that persons honour or something. (Context : been depressed since 11/12 and after experiencing panic attacks for the first time at 25 I finally told a doctor and I’m on a waiting list to get help for pdsd (unsure if that’s what I have) and I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning this if it’s stupid or a lie or if I am even able to). I also struggle to enjoy sex unless it’s bdsm I’m not sure if that’s related but I just feel dirty if I am wanting it.

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Should i get my eyes checked? So i have bad health anxiety i always think something is wrong with me and once i figure out something about how im feeling a brand new symptom comes up and my latest one is i feel like my eyes have a slight yellow hue to them and its not like yellow like jaundice but they look really irritated and idk if its lack of sleep but i was wondering if anyone could say if just lack of sleep or irritated eyes can appear slightly yellow cuz now im scared im getting jaundiced and i have had my share of alcohol and i have no money to get checked

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Health Anxiety Hi, I have a dentist appointment tomorrow and I'm really scared. I know for definite I have a couple of cavities. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for keeping calm and also what to expect from getting cavities fixed? TIA

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Physical side effects of anxiety Hey y’all !! I’ve been experiencing really bad nausea/dizziness/shakiness due to anxiety , so basically physical symptoms. Has anyone experienced the same thing and what kind of meds do you take for the physical side effects if anxiety??

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fast heartbeat & unreal feelings related to anxiety? so just gonna start off i dont have any kind of diagnosis, but i feel like recently, for a few month i just feel my hearts very fast, faster than normal and before i sleep i feel like my whole body is shaking bcs my heart is beating so fast, and it also happens when im stressed or im in school or it just happens. also that sometimes i just feel unreal, kinda feels like im floating? i wonder if this is like anxiety symptoms, maybe i should get this checked out?

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Why am I not able to cut out sugar?! So my MD tells me that I should cut out sugar and that the body can run without it. I suffer from extreme anxiety 24/7 and when i try cutting out sugar I get weak and my stomach is turning inside out, my body aches from craving sugar. I tried cutting out 3 times. The longest was 23 days. I just continuously got worse. At the end I was just lying in bed in horrid pain. It feels like my body needs that extra sugar in order to cope with the draining anxiety. Also my blood sugar levels stay stable with or without sugar.

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Anyone else have physical symptoms that constantly change over time? I feel like it’s like those cartoons where you plug one hole in a leaky boat and another leak forms and so on. Some months it’s tingling. Sometime aching, then cramping, then stomach stuff, cold, then sweaty. Just when I get one to stop another pops up. Or a different combination. And these things rarely happen while I’m busy or my mind is calm, happy, and occupied. Anyone have these shifting symptoms?

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buspar higher dose wondering about people experiences going up to higher doses of buspar (im on an ssri too)...ive been at 15-20mg/day for years- but still not 100% sure it really helps that much when my anxiety is bad. and its really bad lately- want to avoid benzos, but seriously need some extra relief. so im wondering is going up to 30-60mg that much different than lower doses or maybe i should look into something else. ps-my psych takes things very slowly and only does small increases, so finding this out first hand may take a while...

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Fast heart rate out of nowhere? Hi guys I was sitting in Caffee Bar (drinkin juice) and my heart started beating too fast. Can this be because of anxiety? Also sometimes when I wake up I feel that way too.

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First psychiatrists appointment. Meds?! So I made an appointment after months of avoiding it/being to anxious to call. I’ve read here that Ssri‘s are on of the go to types of meds to be prescribed for anxiety and panic attacks. I really don’t want to take any ssri, I tried one for my depression, had the worst side effects and It also really badly affected my tinnitus and also sweating Then I found out this group of meds in general is bad for people with tinnitus that’s why I wouldn’t want to take them again (I know there are many different ones) If I tell those three concerns is it possible that they’ll prescribe something else ? I really can’t deal with more sweating, tinnitus

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Whats the best anxiety medication in your opinion? So I'm currently on wellbutrin. It doesn't seem to be working anymore in controlling my anxiety. Before that I was on Lexapro. Does anyone know what would be considered the top tier medication in dispersing anxiety?

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Anyone I can vent to in dms? Going through a bit right now and idk what to do. It’s making me feel angry and anxious. Really need someone to chat with

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How has buspar working for you? I got prescribed buspar last week because I had crippling anxiety. Cant get a job, can’t call places, and can’t drive at night. I’m on 7.5 mg rn and take it twice a day. I noticed my legs aren’t consistently shaking and my hands aren’t as fidgety. And i don’t have as bad as overwhelming worries. I think I want to go up in my dosage tho. How has buspar been working for you?

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CBD oil Hi! Is someone here using CBD oil to help with anxiety? I’m using but I don’t see any results 🥺

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I have constant anxiety of dying, is there anything i can do to stop it? Everyday i am always fearful that i could die at any moment. For example, last night when i was in bed my heart was beating different it was like it was beating faster than normal, so i thought something was wrong with me and i thought i was gonna die, i kept stressing out about it the whole night and i couldnt sleep. another example, when i hear a loud noise outside my house now i think its a shooter or something and i think im gonna die again or something. help me

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Just had one of the worst anxiety attacks of my life during my sleep that I still can’t comprehend what just happened. I’ve had an anxiety disorder most of my life and I had a particularly stressful day the night before. As of writing this I just had the most vividly intense nightmare of my life that it still doesn’t feel like I’ve awoken into reality at the moment. In short, I had a dream where I was being possessed by a demon but I could feel all the pain and physical anxiety it was creating. I woke up multiple times. One of the times my mouth was wide open, my throat completely dry, and my neck as stiff as a rock. During the dream I felt my heart racing and beating so hard my chest still hurts, and I woke up completely covered in sweat and my body aching real bad. Is this a normal experience for a panic attack at night? Would anyone be able to provide some advice for why this could’ve happened and how I can prevent it in the future?

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The girl I like also suffers from anxiety. The girl that I fell for 10 years ago also suffers from anxiety. I haven't got the guts to let her know how I feel about her. My anxiety recently developed into agoraphobia. I've been improving but I still can't travel far. That kind of demoralized me. My question is: Can a relationship still work if both suffer from anxiety?

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boobs or chest pain? this may be a very stupid question but can any ladies feel confusion on whether they’re experiencing chest pain or boob pain? my boobs aren’t too big nor too small but this tension i feel is more towards the top of my chest yet its also apart of my boobs…can anybody help me differentiate or share similar experiences?

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Can't think of a suitable name for this post I have been blessed with the ability to freak myself right the F\*$& out whenever i think about a host of different topics... anxiety. Now most of these topics ive been able to find categories for, and address in that way, by learning about those things, bettering my understanding of them, and really evaluating exactly what it is that im afraid of. For example, i am a hypochondriac, i have lived with health anxiety for as long as i can remember, but its very easy to find out what health anxiety is, you can easily find other peoples experiences, common coping mechanisms, potential causes for this anxiety, etc. This is the case with almost anything i find myself consistently anxious about. Now, One of the darkest corners in my mind that i try to stay out of as much as possible, is one that i cant get a lot of information on, and because of this, i don't know how to move forward in addressing this. This anxiety / fear is triggered by thoughts of existence, reality, the thought of consciousness... trying to wrap my mind around what it is that I'm experiencing just by being alive in the first place. A good example thought of this would be this: Whether you are reading this on a computer or phone or tablet... stop and take a second to think about what is between your eyes reading this, and the screen Infront of you, now i don't mean the air, pollen, dust, particles etc. that occupies that space, but the f#$%ing space itself. How? why is that there? what is that occupying? how did it get there? I experience symptoms of derealization / depersonalization disorder that I've observed are closely related to my thoughts like this, Hell I believed when I was 17 until 20 I was falling into psychosis due to my relentless obsessing over the unanswerable. Its not even one specific mind-F#$\* that does this to me, it's the combination of all of them that represent what we call "reality" or "existence" that i cant tune out, and the more i try to research these things in my life, the more questions that are left unanswered. i can barely hold conversations with people because of how often i just go blank, returning to being consumed with mulling these things over, IN THE MIDDLE OF CONVERSATIONS. I feel like most people are able to just curb these thoughts as "unimportant" or just set them aside because there's no way to answer things like that at the moment. Boy do i wish i could do just that. Thoughts like this are 25/8 on my mind, I mean I DREAM about inexplicable things that could never be answered, and i wake up, open my eyes and wonder what is this plane of existence that I'm experiencing? how do i retain my persona, my memories, my trains of thought, all of my experiences after so many years? How do i face any interaction, any experience, any leaf that lands Infront of me on a walk without my mind jumping to the probability of these things happening? And then wondering how I'm even able to question that in the first place? This has not been a mid-life crisis, rather it has been a whole-life drain. I have never been afraid of the 18 wheeler next to me on the freeway, yet i have always been afraid of the inevitable heat death of the universe. Why am I like this?

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Quick change in anxiety symptoms?! Hi guys, I've experienced anxiety for a long time now (26F), I'd say at least 8 years. Symptoms have always been tight chest, heart going a million miles an hour, the occasional panic attack. I've always managed it quite well, have a decent job and can interact with people fairly well. I've never let it stop me doing anything as then I'd feel like it has beat me. As of 3 weeks ago (it was literally one day fine and the next.. NOT FINE!), I got on the train to go to work and felt like I was going to throw up. My mouth was watering and heart felt like it was in my throat. At first I thought it was food poisoning and something was physically amiss. Even though I haven't thrown up and logic would indicate I'm not going to, it feels like I genuinely am on the verge everytime I am in a moving vehicle. I thought it would pass, but it's now just part of my everyday life and I'm finding it debilitating. I'm scared I'll lose my job because of it, which is feeding into the anxiety even more. The only way I can get through a train journey (or any moving vehicle for that matter) is by closing my eyes and putting on Bob Marley through my headphones. It's quite comedic but it genuinely is the only way I can slightly manage it. I've never enjoyed the commute and have done it for ages, but now it's became a THING. I have to have a plastic bag with me at all times as the urge to throw up is so real. Has anyone else experienced a sudden and drastic change in anxiety symptoms, how do you manage them? I'm scared I'll be this way forever.

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Constant anxiety and have lost feelings for partner? Okay so there's a lot for me to go through here, and I have to apologise as it is hard for me to explain things as it's hard for me to even understand what's going on in my brain! I've been with my partner now coming up to 2 years in May, wonderful healthy relationship where there are no issues whatsoever, I'll preface this by saying I have struggled with mental health on and off throughout my life, mainly being anxiety so I have been on Fluoxetine (anti depressants) for the last 2 years, this has been great for me and has helped me to regulate my emotions and feelings quite well and to what I believe has helped my relationship with my partner to flourish and I have felt genuinely happy. Anyway, cutting to now... Since the very (very) start of the year, just after new years... (obviously) I noticed a lot of anxiety... although it may of been creeping in a few weeks before, It was as though now I felt it full blast, and my inner voice kept telling me that my boyfriend was interested in someone else, and I was then getting strong feelings of them cheating although there was no indication of this, I think on new years eve I had noticed my boyfriend getting on well with his mates and watching one of his friends who is a girl sing (he's a musician and i know the following sounds daft, believe me) so the next day I kept getting intrusive thoughts of that moment and feeling very sensitive around it, as I'm quite insecure and never sing and I know my boyfriend would love it if I came out my shell more in that way (although he's always telling me how perfect I am) It kept going through my mind that he should be with someone like that... fast forward a few days, I'm still feeling VERY on edge and feel incredibly anxious when my boyfriend isn't really showing me that much affection, or is in his room for long periods of time... I get very panicky and can't seem to calm myself until I go upstairs to see what he's up to, if he's just sat there on his phone with his door shut I assume that he's not wanting to be with me (even though I think having our own space is healthy and have never had an issue with it before) after seeing him just sat there I'll get incredibly upset and more anxious and feel very emotional, may even start crying and it's difficult to stop, I suddenly view my boyfriend very differently? I'll also mention now that I was never like this at any other point of our relationship, I just started feeling this intense anxiety since new years, also I'll mention that I'm a very sensitive person and feel as though I pick up on other peoples emotions very easily and that I do that a lot with my boyfriend if he is feeling down about himself etc, I also feel these emotions. As the days went on I stopped getting these anxious feelings when he wasn't always around, but still felt bad anxiety and feeling depression creeping in, as the days progressed I noticed myself becoming more sensitive to things and even hyperaware? (think that's the word) which would cause more anxiety for me, my boyfriend may say something and I would take it in a negative way and feel offended by it and it would cause a lot of hurt and then anxiety is even worse... I would have a lot of moments of just emotional outbursts of crying and finding it difficult to stop just feeling very overwhelmed and so uncomfortable in how i'm feeling, even gagging from what felt like stress and not being able to eat (I'm feeling this pretty much everyday) the past month and a bit I've been having internal thoughts such as "I don't love you" and other horrible things directed at my boyfriend which cause me so much anxiety and even more stress as I try to convince myself they are just thoughts and not real, having suddenly no feelings towards him? getting irritated at little things but still feeling intensely sad over the thought of him with someone else, this person is perfect in my eyes and I love all the things about them that are considered imperfections, where have my feelings gone? It's been over a month and I'm scared they won't return because I know this relationship when I'm not feeling this way, is so good for me and has been the best thing for my life. I'll quickly mention that I'm 23 now and had a relationship when I was 14 that brought a lot of the very same feelings up but this happened very early on in the relationship (a month or so) with much breaking up and getting back together due to my anxiety and depression. I'm sorry for the essay but it's really hard to fit everything in, but this is just the summary of it... Please can I get real responses with this, I really want to make this relationship work and stop this anxiety and emotional stress and be able to feel these feelings again for my partner... I'd hate to think that it's over now.

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My class always laugh at me whenever I try to recite because I stutter and my answer where nonsense I have a low self-esteem, I dont have confidence and I stutter a lot. I cant recite during class, because I got a hard time explaining what i want to say, I feel worthless and devastated to the point I lost interest in my life I feel pathetic and I know im not worth it Im not smart since I always get a low grade but still manage to pass I feel so small despite the fact that I struggle a lot I have a social anxiety and depression But you know I try to change myself, I try to be a person who I want to be, yet I cant change myself because no one got my back, no one believe in me and support me, its hard to fight alone in this lonely and painfull battle within myself Then now I realize that I live my life pleasing the other people, I feel sorry for myself and life, I realize the people will never acknowledge or believe in me because in the first place they see me as a trash and stupid.... I WANT TO SHOW TO THE PEOPLE WHO LAUGH AT ME, WHO NEVER BELIEVE IN ME AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEVER SUPPORT ME THAT I CAN ACHIEVE SOMETHING IN MY LIFE.....

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How do I accept the fact that my partner finds other women attractive? I have been feeling super anxious and insecure recently about the fact that my partner acknowledges that he has celebrity crushes or finds other women in our life good looking. I don't mean he's asking these people out or he's making moves, I just mean on a surface level. My partner mentions, often enough, that he thinks a girl is good looking or that he finds this celebrity attractive. It really makes me anxious and insecure so I have a hard time hearing this. I know he doesn't mean anything by it, but it's really upsetting me and making me feel so worried all the time that he is going to leave me. Is it normal for guys to do this? Is it normal for people to feel attraction to other people while they're in relationships? I certainly think other men are attractive, I won't lie. But I definitely do not think about making a move on them or even flirting. I know the same is true for my partner, I'm just having a hard time coping

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Did you ever have that one panic attack that changed your life? I had one before and it absolutely changed my life. I developed health anxiety and so much more. I just want to know if this happened to anyone else? and if it did, what happened that day and after?

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Kidney like symptoms? Hey guys, the last days after i got officially diagnosed with anxiety disorder i went without any symptoms (i guess finaly having a name for my problems calmed me down). But two hours ago when i came back from a walk my left back side under the rib started to hurt :/ It not a stinging pain or something that i can't manage, but it feels a little bit like back pain and is slightly pulsating i think?? It also radiates a little bit to the right side and i am feeling a bit dizzy/out of myself right now :( I went to pee and it came out like normal without any pain, so It shouldn't be my kidneys right? This dizziness scares me so much though :( Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Or maybe i should really call an ambulance? I don't know what to do i am so worried

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Anxiety around family. Why do I feel like the outsider when my families all together. I always assume I’m not included in anything actively happening even though I’m being invited to things and events. I exclude myself from them for this reason. Any help or insight would be great.

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24/7 lightheaded and pressure in head 40 male starting to go crazy with this Does anyone else have this ?? All my doctors tell me they got no idea Please help

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Heart Racing every morning I’ve been struggling for a almost a week now every morning I wake up around 5:30am (way earlier than my intended wake up time) with my heart pounding out of my chest, chest tightness and sometimes pain, and my anxiety is through the roof. Just posting this in here in case anyone has similar experiences or has had things that help them. I have little to no trouble falling asleep at night but mornings have been absolutely awful lately because of this. I’ve been to the ER twice for anxiety/panic and had EKG and bloodwork tests all come back normal.

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