amy_762
05-03-14, 10:43
Hello, just joined. I really enjoy reading the forums and find that they bring a lot of comfort. I have suffered from severe anxiety and depression for most of my life. I am 28 now. I remember having uncontrollable panic attacks as young as 4 or 5 years of age. I am now on medication and doing much better! I still have setbacks though. I have a special needs son and he has spent the majority of his life in the ICU and has had 27 surgeries/procedures so far. This has caused my health anxiety which I already had anyway, to go through the roof! Now I'm always expecting to have something horrible happen to me and end up on the ventilator. I worry about ridiculous things.... A sore tongue means I have oral cancer, a little lump that shows up must be a tumor etc etc.. You know how it is. Not fun at all! But if we have to be insane, at least we can be insane together!! :yesyes: