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05-08-14, 07:12
Hi! My name is Liz. I am a 22 yo, normal height/weight/health female. I stumbled upon this great website while I was looking for some help with panic attacks and health anxiety.
I started developing anxiety when I was about 18, and have been working through it (mostly positively) since then. I just had a wisdom tooth extraction, however, and it triggered a number of panic attacks and anxieties about medicine, disease, death, etc.
Prior to me joining the site this evening, I had a full-blown panic attack about having an allergic reaction to amoxicillin. Logically, it makes no sense - it is my last pill, and I've had no problems in the past week with it. I was also fine until (3 hours after taking the pill) I noticed some very slight, small, barely-there, rashes on my chest. So ensued some abdominal cramping, and then a Google-search which resulted in my pouring over pages about anaphylactic shock and having a total meltdown.
I just graduated college, am moving to pursue my Masters and am, as any normal 22 (or otherwise) year old, am overwhelmed by the future and whatnot. As much as I can tell myself that, however, and reason out every fear and phobia as best I can, I'm still struggling to deal with my anxiety and feel like the past few weeks have definitely been a setback in terms of positive progress.
Thus, I figured I would ask the advice of you all - it seems that panic and anxiety might be a lifelong problem for me ... how do you all handle it? What do you all do to combat your anxiety, especially on the days where it slips out of your control?
Apologies for the length of the post - I'm really happy I stumbled upon this site.
Thank you, and nice to meet everyone!
I started developing anxiety when I was about 18, and have been working through it (mostly positively) since then. I just had a wisdom tooth extraction, however, and it triggered a number of panic attacks and anxieties about medicine, disease, death, etc.
Prior to me joining the site this evening, I had a full-blown panic attack about having an allergic reaction to amoxicillin. Logically, it makes no sense - it is my last pill, and I've had no problems in the past week with it. I was also fine until (3 hours after taking the pill) I noticed some very slight, small, barely-there, rashes on my chest. So ensued some abdominal cramping, and then a Google-search which resulted in my pouring over pages about anaphylactic shock and having a total meltdown.
I just graduated college, am moving to pursue my Masters and am, as any normal 22 (or otherwise) year old, am overwhelmed by the future and whatnot. As much as I can tell myself that, however, and reason out every fear and phobia as best I can, I'm still struggling to deal with my anxiety and feel like the past few weeks have definitely been a setback in terms of positive progress.
Thus, I figured I would ask the advice of you all - it seems that panic and anxiety might be a lifelong problem for me ... how do you all handle it? What do you all do to combat your anxiety, especially on the days where it slips out of your control?
Apologies for the length of the post - I'm really happy I stumbled upon this site.
Thank you, and nice to meet everyone!