laura23
12-10-09, 10:31
Hi all,
This will be long but I need help!!!
I have recently been experiencing severe anxiety and A LOT of panic attacks and its been doing my head in! I'm 21 and have experienced this before (about two years ago when I was at uni) but it seems ten times worse this time and I feel like I am becoming agraphobic. Since I have finished my degree I have been unable to find a job and have been stuck at home all day every day which really doesnt help. I have been trying to go out even if it is with someone but I still feel very distressed when I am away from home.
This is not my only problem. I have also developed a lot of health anxieties and last night I couldn't sleep because I made myself believe I was going to have a heart attack!! I always make myself believe that I am ill even though I know it is just the anxiety.
When I overcame this last time I had a lot of things in life to distract me but now I just cant concentrate on anything so it is hard to control my thoughts.
I have been trying everything to make my lifestyle healthier as it was getting quite bad before which is I think why the anxiety started again (I drank quite a lot and smoked what seemed like hundreds of cigarettes a day!) I have been trying to eat healthily, take vitamins, cut out caffeinated drinks apart from tea, exercise at least 5 times a week and only have one or two glasses of wine at weekends. (I have cut down on the cigs substantially too!)
I feel so trapped in my head and I havent had a day in about a month where I havent felt very anxious. I have been to my GP who has reffered me to a counceller type person, I have only been once but it didnt really help.
Anyway I have got that off my chest now! Any support of advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
This will be long but I need help!!!
I have recently been experiencing severe anxiety and A LOT of panic attacks and its been doing my head in! I'm 21 and have experienced this before (about two years ago when I was at uni) but it seems ten times worse this time and I feel like I am becoming agraphobic. Since I have finished my degree I have been unable to find a job and have been stuck at home all day every day which really doesnt help. I have been trying to go out even if it is with someone but I still feel very distressed when I am away from home.
This is not my only problem. I have also developed a lot of health anxieties and last night I couldn't sleep because I made myself believe I was going to have a heart attack!! I always make myself believe that I am ill even though I know it is just the anxiety.
When I overcame this last time I had a lot of things in life to distract me but now I just cant concentrate on anything so it is hard to control my thoughts.
I have been trying everything to make my lifestyle healthier as it was getting quite bad before which is I think why the anxiety started again (I drank quite a lot and smoked what seemed like hundreds of cigarettes a day!) I have been trying to eat healthily, take vitamins, cut out caffeinated drinks apart from tea, exercise at least 5 times a week and only have one or two glasses of wine at weekends. (I have cut down on the cigs substantially too!)
I feel so trapped in my head and I havent had a day in about a month where I havent felt very anxious. I have been to my GP who has reffered me to a counceller type person, I have only been once but it didnt really help.
Anyway I have got that off my chest now! Any support of advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.