Just introducing myself

[fizzy]

Hi there everybody,

My name is matt I'm 28 and I live on the surrey/sussex border of good old blighty! I've just found this forum, which is very exciting to me as I didn't think that a public forum existed to help people like us help each other!!

I've been suffering from very upsetting anxiety and panic attacks for about the last 8 months, following a fairly mild motorcycle accident last year. I first suffered anxiety and panic at the age of 16, but after a very dark period seemed to push through it. I would say that I had 6-7 years of panic free living, and really believed that I was almost at the point where I was going to remove any traces of anxiety from my life forever.

My anxieties exist almost completely around health issues - I have lost confidence in my body and the belief that nothing is really wrong and that I will get better. I've been having cognitive behavioural therapy again, but it seems touch and go really. Currently I'm struggling to hold on to my job, as I find it very difficult to commute into London.

anyway, thats enough of the quick overview....look forward to talking with you all soon :)

[leo05]

hi matt welcome to the forum everyone is really freindly in here


feel free to pm me if you need

leanne [8D]

[fizzy]

Thanks Leanne, I will do

[Meg]

Hi Matt ,

Welcome to the site..Hope you've had a bit of time to cruise through other messages and the home pages.

Did you have any injuries from the accident ? Flashbacks ?

What sort of health anxiety issues are plaguing you and what about the commute is the worst bit for you ?

http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/symptoms.htm
http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/healthanxiety.htm

First Steps : First Steps to overcoming Panic and Anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=942)



Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Watch your thoughts, they become your words...
Watch your words, they become your actions... Watch your actions, they become your habits... Watch your habits, they become your character... Watch your character, it becomes your destiny...

[Karen]

Hi Matt

Welcome to the forum.

Karen



It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

[pips]

Hi Matt,

A BIG warm welcome to the site. I hope it helps you.

Take care,

Love PIP'S X

[seh1980]

Welcome aboard!! :D

"Life is too important to take seriously" Corky Siegal

[Barb]

Hi Matt

Welcome to the site, theres lots of caring people to give you support here.

Barb xx

[trac67]

Hi Matt,
Welcome to the forum, its great here for help and support. I suffer with health anxiety too and have just finished CBT for it i found it has helped me a lot, so i hope that you get the benefits from it too.
Take care Hun, and let us know how things go.
Trac:D

[nomorepanic]

Hi Matt

A big warm welcome to the forum and I am sure you will get loads of support and help on here so hope you stick around ok?

Nicola

"Nearly all happiness comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open"

[fizzy]

Thanks for the kind messages everyone...its reassuring to know there are so many caring perople out there.

Meg..Injuries were confined mostly to bruising and whiplash, but suffered a slightly delicate male injury that kept me in hospital for a few days :-o Did have flashbacks for a while, but now it is mainly flashbacks to accident and emergency rooms...I'm quite scared of hospitals and medicine.

I'm really focussed in on my body...I feel the slightest twinge or pain. My symptoms feel very severe to me, e.g. dizziness, confusion, feeling spaced out, fatigue. My therapist thinks that I may be a chronic hyperventilator, but even knowing this I still think that I'm going to die every time. My symptoms can come on very quickly indeed and I snap into panic, scared that I'm going to lose consciousness. I think that I find the commute difficult because I'm leaving my place of safety and venturing into the unsafe, uncaring world! Also the accident happened while I was commuting by bike into work.

[Meg]

*I may be a chronic hyperventilator, but even knowing this I still think that I'm going to die every time*

Has she helped you learn correct breathing to prevent some of these ?

*dizziness, confusion, feeling spaced out, fatigue*
All common anxiety symptoms but each very scary for the moment.

*and I snap into panic, scared that I'm going to lose consciousness*
I think we've all probably been there and can relate to this one.Its truly horrid but luckily in reality pretty harmless.

Glad the flashbacks are better

Here are loads of previous posts similar to yours so you can share others experiences - see if you can relate to any of them. See if learning you are not alone and these symptoms are very common and overcomeable does help reassure you at all. We'll be here to help you through it.


Lets try to keep our thoughts in perspective (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=283)
Mind Games (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1789)
obsessive thoughts & anxiety (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3096)


Has anyone else felt this symptom? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3080)

Confused? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4187)

Spaciness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2696)
Light Headed (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2951)
dizzyness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3062)
Jules31 (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=310)
Light Headed (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2951)
Very dizzy (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3743)
help :( (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3742)

Hi new member mom w/ panic and dp/dr (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1239)

walking funny, head rushes and dizziness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3610)

How Do You Do The Breathing (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4042)
Breathing.. wow (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4037)
Breathing Techniques (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4044)

http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/symptoms.htm


















Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Your anxiety is the human representation of the pictures that you paint using your many vivid colours of revolving and reoccurring thoughts.
How big is your gallery ?

[psycho2000]

Hi mate (Matt)!

Nice to see yet another fella onboard. Welcome to the forum, hope you find all answers to your questions here. I have, most of them.

I have more or less same symptoms and feelings like you.

"I'm really focussed in on my body...I feel the slightest twinge or pain"
Me too!! Which is not helping. But similarly, as you had an accident, I had a long bout of illness last year around this time, during which I became mentally weaker, finding myself depending a lot on others for moral support etc (when I was built like machine before, morally very strong). Now I find the lishgtest pain near my heart, on in the chest area (which is more due to heartburn cause I have some indigestion problem since last year), and I start worrying like mad lol!

All this has contributed to starting my anxiety and panic attacks for sure. I also tend to hyperventilate almost permanently. It's nice to learn there's such a thing as chronic hyperventilator and I'm gonna ask my GP next time I meet her.

If you wanna chat, feel free to send me email or PM or add me on MSN.

Take care, we're all in there together.

Sam.

One day, one day I will beat u and that day, I will be free again, as I was before...

[pinkscrumpy]

Hi Matt

A big welcome to you

Hope the site helps


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MANDIE XX

[Mcched]

HI Matt

Welcome aboard!!!!

You will find lots of support here at this site!!! It's good to talk amongst people who are having similar experiences.

I too have problems communting to and from work as I am leaving my area of safeness. Have you tried commmuting with a work collegue?? Or getting into a routine of catching the same train, sitting in the same compartment and then even though they are strangers you'll find you see the same familiar faces.

Feel free to pm me as I have the same anxieties as you and am scared that I'll pass out or something worse. I am worst when on my own in an unsafe environment. (Sorry unsafe = unknown environment)

Take care

Nikki

[florence]

Hi Matt

Welcome to the site where you will find great support and advice :).

Florence.

**Don't believe everything you think .**

[sal]

Hi Matt

Great you have joined and hope we can all help you.

Love Sal xx


Dont mess up the best things in your life, just because at present you are unsure who you are.

[jill]

Hi Matt

WELCOME TO THE SITE

TAKE CARE

LOVE JILLXX