kitty18
20-08-08, 14:25
Hi. I'm 22 years old and have a previous history of mild anxiety and depression, which came about when I was anorexic (between ages of 17-20).
I've since recovered from my eating disorder. But lately, through stress, my anxiety has returned at full force... and very different from before.
Whereas earlier I would merely have sporadic panic attacks, now I have health anxiety. About three months ago I discovered something about my fiance which upset me and made us go through a bad patch. We are still together and love each other very much, though. It was the same time we were moving into a flat together. Over the next several weeks I began to feel ill with a few symptoms such as headaches. Then I began to worry about losing my job, as the department was in trouble, and ended up resigning when I didn't have another job lined up. I got a new one within three weeks and really like it, but the stress has made me feel worse.
I've had so many physical symptoms and have seen a few consultants but they all said it's stress.
Does anyone ever feel like the doctors just won't listen to you? Right now I am dealing with headaches, sore throat and earache, plus blurry vision. I wrote a list of all my symptoms and went to see a doctor I hadn't seen before. He didn't even glance at the list for more than second then said yes, it was anxiety. This really annoyed me, he didn't even address half of the worrying symptoms on there. I'm always plagued with the worry that, can ALL these symptoms just be anxiety? I'm finding it so hard to believe and am just going in a vicious circle. Can somebody reassure me that the doctor is right? :( He did check my sore throat and said it might be acid reflux. I'm just still so scared and feel like I'm dying. :(
x
I've since recovered from my eating disorder. But lately, through stress, my anxiety has returned at full force... and very different from before.
Whereas earlier I would merely have sporadic panic attacks, now I have health anxiety. About three months ago I discovered something about my fiance which upset me and made us go through a bad patch. We are still together and love each other very much, though. It was the same time we were moving into a flat together. Over the next several weeks I began to feel ill with a few symptoms such as headaches. Then I began to worry about losing my job, as the department was in trouble, and ended up resigning when I didn't have another job lined up. I got a new one within three weeks and really like it, but the stress has made me feel worse.
I've had so many physical symptoms and have seen a few consultants but they all said it's stress.
Does anyone ever feel like the doctors just won't listen to you? Right now I am dealing with headaches, sore throat and earache, plus blurry vision. I wrote a list of all my symptoms and went to see a doctor I hadn't seen before. He didn't even glance at the list for more than second then said yes, it was anxiety. This really annoyed me, he didn't even address half of the worrying symptoms on there. I'm always plagued with the worry that, can ALL these symptoms just be anxiety? I'm finding it so hard to believe and am just going in a vicious circle. Can somebody reassure me that the doctor is right? :( He did check my sore throat and said it might be acid reflux. I'm just still so scared and feel like I'm dying. :(
x