RELATIONSHIPS

[shorte_stressa]

HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY THAT ANXIETY AFFECTS THEIR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS?

[EmmaJane]

I think anxiety affects many relantionships. Especially if you have low self esteem or feel you dont fit in etc.



Feel free to PM me, if you want to talk.

Emma xx

Keep focused, keep positive.

[nomorepanic]

Yep it does but sometimes you can repair it and sometimes you can't.

Depends how strong they are I guess.

Nicola

[giddy]

I don't think its affected relationships with close friends and family. But it certainly affects how I meet new people - basically, I don't!!
Love Helen

[janie]

Yes I think it has affected relationships - I can't see how it wouldn't. That's not to say that your loved ones stop loving you - it's just that they can see that something is wrong and they don't know how to help. I can see my husband looking deep into my face hoping to find the old Janie there - she's coming back but he will need to be patient.

Children also find it difficult because to them when you are poorly you take medicine and you get better. This is far more complex and hard for them to understand.

I don't have any trouble going out and meeting people - I feel uneasy most of the time but try to force myself to carry on as 'normal'.

Love to all xxx

[Nicki22]

only problem i got is that my partner dont know how to help me when im having a panic attack.. the good thing is that he wants to try and learn how to help

[Rennie1989]

Anxiety can affect my relationship because I loose my sex drive (sorry for that piece of information) but my boyfriend is so good at reasuring me that my anxiety just fades away.

Scooties Back

[darkangel]

massive effect - my husband abused me both emotionally and physically because my anxiety and agoraphobia ruined HIS life.

He is now my ex - but it has made a huge impact on how I cope in new relationships - I DON'T. !!!!

I find it really difficult to trust and I constantly feel I am not good enough and I am just waiting to get hurt.

darkangel


........life is for living not just for surviving

[chedda]

It hasnt affected my realationship ,only to the degree we dont go out and socialise together because of my agoraphobia..we are as close now as we have ever been and although it also affects my childrens lifes to a certain degree it is something you adjust to you have to and as long as you all pull in the same direction then it does make you a stronger unit.Suppose im really lucky that we all pull together and they dont expect too much off me :) I know at times they must be dissapointed that i cant go with them or do this or that but they know that if i was able to id be right there...and when i am able to i will be right out there with them :)

[honeybee3939]

Hi,

It hasnt affected my relationship, i think my illness as brought me closer to my family, i have suffered with this illness for 10 years and missed out in alot of everyday life things, but my husband as stuck by me, i know it as been hard for him at times, he had a suspected heart attack last year and spent a week in hospital, but after tests found out there was nothing wrong with his heart it was stress that caused it, i couldnt even visit him in hospital because of my agorophobia, i felt so guilty, but he never moaned about it, he came home a week later and told me how much he loved me, i am so lucky to have him around, i love him so much.

love

Andrea
xxxx

[sophia_x]

it effects my relationship, i feel down alot and cant meet his famliy/go places etc we have been together for a year and half tho...but i think he is starting to get fed up. Which i do understand

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[bluebottle]

I think anxiety and depression are so closely linked that I might be excused for expanding the discussion to include depression?

My depression and anxiety has a huge effect on my relationship because most of the time I don't feel or feel confused and that includes how I look at the relationship with my partner. We have split up so many times I've lost count but she still hangs in there with amazing grace and understanding. I hate not knowing if its love or I just want it to be, but when your feelings are numb how can you know?

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Blue -
"Your truth is better for you than someone else's. Just get to know what it is, so you can finally own it, and speak it."

[W.I.F.T.S.]

I have a lot of trouble with relationships. I didn't have my first girlfriend until I was 22 and she was 38. Needless to say she dominated me. She was very into drugs and I got into it too. She was unfaithful to me a lot and she really hurt me. I was with her for 4 years and I didn't like the person I was at the end of it. I feel like I became devious, desperate and very selfish.

i didn't feel especially close to my family growing up. I always used to suspect that I was adopted! I actually used to blame my parents for the way that i am. I now realise that they were especially happy and they did their best. They are good people and they love me and my brother and they will always try their best for us. In a way, coming home has been a good thing because i have feel like I have started afresh will my family and I am starting to bond with them atlast. I am much closer to my brother now than i have ever been.

My current relationship is a tricky one. I feel that we antagonise each other a lot, she can be very aggressive, fussy and uptight, which doesn't do me much good. I think I got into it for the wrong reasons and we quickly became engaged (mainly so that she would stop going on about it). I think I have actually got more into it as it's gone on. I used to work opposite shifts to her so that I had as much time on my own as possible, and now I want my weekends and evenings free so that we can do stuff.

I do find that she can be very negative though and doing stuff with her is too because she gets into such a flap and causes me to panic. But, she's very loyal, honest, thoughtful and giving.

It concerns me that I probably have a depressing affect on the people that I'm in relationships with and that causes me to pull back and want to spend time on my own.

Ships in harbour are safe..but that's not what ships were built for.

[expecto patronum]

I had 2 1/2 months of being so happy with my new boyfriend, when I split up with my ex I felt like I'd got my life back. Then this thing reared it ugly head and I feel really bad cos I feel like I'm not the person he fell in love with anymore. hes really understanding and really wants to help me,- he used to have panic attacks and I feel really bad cos he's been thru enough **** already. When I feel like I'm not going to get thru this I really feel like the fairest thing would be to end it, but I love him so much it feels like we were made for each other.

[expecto patronum]

I had 2 1/2 months of being so happy with my new boyfriend, when I split up with my ex I felt like I'd got my life back. Then this thing reared it ugly head and I feel really bad cos I feel like I'm not the person he fell in love with anymore. hes really understanding and really wants to help me,- he used to have panic attacks and I feel really bad cos he's been thru enough **** already. When I feel like I'm not going to get thru this I really feel like the fairest thing would be to end it, but I love him so much it feels like we were made for each other.