Kt1601
18-05-10, 03:18
Hi There,
I wanted to post on here so I know I am not alone with my anxiety..
I'm 22 and have been suffering with anxiety for 6 months.
I have always had an active social life and never really worried too much about things. Then me and my partner split up and all of a sudden I get my first panic attack, I was abit unsure as to what was happening to me. I just thought I would ride it out and sure enough it went within a few hours!
After having a couple more at work I was really starting to get worried! Then I had a really bad one at work when I thought I was going to die and had to go to hospital, where they told me I was just having a panic attack.
Since then I have obviously read up every little detail about anxiety and have been to the doctors and they diagnosed me with generalized panic disorder.
The doctor prescribed me Propananol, which does work to an extent but I do not want to rely on pills for the rest of my life!
However they do work BUT I still get panic attacks at night. Just before I'm about to drift off to sleep my body will go numb and I will go straight into an attack and then wont be able to sleep until I'm so tired I pass out. Does anyone else suffer with this?
Also I will get them, weirdly, if I take a paracetamol for a headache?! Then I think that I'm going to die from taking one paracetamol!
My social life is also affected, when I'm in a pub/club or even at the cinema I feel very anxious and I have to stay clear of alcohol because my anxiety worsens with a hangover!!
At the moment anxiety is controlling my life and it's so scary, I want it to go away so I can be me again!
These are my anxiety symptoms:
Heart Palpitations, Heart Racing, Dry Mouth, Shivers, Sore Throat, Heart Burn, irritableness, fear of dying, ear ache, headaches, weight gain, insomnia, feeling like my head is going to explode, blurred vision, chest pains, feeling like I'm not in my own body (if that makes sense), lack of motivation and there are probably some that I have forgot to mention.
I am also terrible for when I get a new symptom, to go on google and search for it. Obviously if there is a possibility that this symptom could mean 'disaster' this makes anxiety worse! So I have now banned google'ing' symptoms and either go on this website or www.talk2gether.nhs.uk (http://www.talk2gether.nhs.uk).
Thanks for reading this :) I hope people can relate to my situation :bighug1:
xx
I wanted to post on here so I know I am not alone with my anxiety..
I'm 22 and have been suffering with anxiety for 6 months.
I have always had an active social life and never really worried too much about things. Then me and my partner split up and all of a sudden I get my first panic attack, I was abit unsure as to what was happening to me. I just thought I would ride it out and sure enough it went within a few hours!
After having a couple more at work I was really starting to get worried! Then I had a really bad one at work when I thought I was going to die and had to go to hospital, where they told me I was just having a panic attack.
Since then I have obviously read up every little detail about anxiety and have been to the doctors and they diagnosed me with generalized panic disorder.
The doctor prescribed me Propananol, which does work to an extent but I do not want to rely on pills for the rest of my life!
However they do work BUT I still get panic attacks at night. Just before I'm about to drift off to sleep my body will go numb and I will go straight into an attack and then wont be able to sleep until I'm so tired I pass out. Does anyone else suffer with this?
Also I will get them, weirdly, if I take a paracetamol for a headache?! Then I think that I'm going to die from taking one paracetamol!
My social life is also affected, when I'm in a pub/club or even at the cinema I feel very anxious and I have to stay clear of alcohol because my anxiety worsens with a hangover!!
At the moment anxiety is controlling my life and it's so scary, I want it to go away so I can be me again!
These are my anxiety symptoms:
Heart Palpitations, Heart Racing, Dry Mouth, Shivers, Sore Throat, Heart Burn, irritableness, fear of dying, ear ache, headaches, weight gain, insomnia, feeling like my head is going to explode, blurred vision, chest pains, feeling like I'm not in my own body (if that makes sense), lack of motivation and there are probably some that I have forgot to mention.
I am also terrible for when I get a new symptom, to go on google and search for it. Obviously if there is a possibility that this symptom could mean 'disaster' this makes anxiety worse! So I have now banned google'ing' symptoms and either go on this website or www.talk2gether.nhs.uk (http://www.talk2gether.nhs.uk).
Thanks for reading this :) I hope people can relate to my situation :bighug1:
xx