girl20
31-03-13, 17:02
Hello everyone: This is my first post, so I really hope you can help me. I am a bit desperate. I am 21 years old and I'm currently studying at the university (so yeah the pressure and stress is a lot).
For the past month, I've been struggling a lot with anxiety and with a terrifying fear of developing a mental illness. I know my fears are very irrational considering no one in my family has ever developed this kind of sickness , only my mom had depression last year but she is doing much much better and completely recovered by now (but it was still the hardest thing i ever had to go through, I never expected to see my mother so sick and it all hurt me really much). Regarding that, I first feared having depression as well, but now my fears revolve around having a much worse mental illness (schiz or something), even though I've been reassured by my therapist that it's not gonna happen.
I am a very sociable girl, I have lots of friends, a good boyfriend and a loving family, so I feel very bad that this fear is taking the best of my life.
I hope you can give me some tips on how to deal with it because I can't deal with this anymore.
Thanks in advance
Regards
For the past month, I've been struggling a lot with anxiety and with a terrifying fear of developing a mental illness. I know my fears are very irrational considering no one in my family has ever developed this kind of sickness , only my mom had depression last year but she is doing much much better and completely recovered by now (but it was still the hardest thing i ever had to go through, I never expected to see my mother so sick and it all hurt me really much). Regarding that, I first feared having depression as well, but now my fears revolve around having a much worse mental illness (schiz or something), even though I've been reassured by my therapist that it's not gonna happen.
I am a very sociable girl, I have lots of friends, a good boyfriend and a loving family, so I feel very bad that this fear is taking the best of my life.
I hope you can give me some tips on how to deal with it because I can't deal with this anymore.
Thanks in advance
Regards