duke246810
24-05-11, 19:49
Hi there, i recently posted another post about this but i didn't get as many responses as i hoped for so here goes....
I have had health anxiety now for about 4 years, it stops and starts and at times it is unbearable. Anxiety has taken over my life, stopping me from being able to see my friends, go out to places, go out for meals, holidays, everything a 16 year old would love to do! I can't.
I left school when i was 14 because of bullying and went into home schooling, this didn't really help with my friendships as me seeing them got less and less until it was almost me never seeing them. Now im at the point where i have no friends because i always cancel on them, this is due to my anxiety, i can't explain to them what health anxiety is and how much it can destroy your life, none of them would understand.
Ive started seeing a counciller, but i find its not helping me enough. Im not sure what to do, i feel like im on my own.
I hate going out into public or where anyone young can see me, i am SO self concious! I'm trying to lose weight at the moment but its not really working, anything i eat i feel the need to excercise straight after or punish myself for eating it. I am really feeling down and depressed, i always snap at my family and feel like im making everyones lives a misery. Nothing seems to be helping. Plus i have all these horrible symptoms which are ruling my life, i get scared to sleep incase i die in my sleep which makes me so weak and tierd everyday, i just dont know what to do anymore, its getting out of control.
I get chest pain, stomach pain, rib pain, pain which makes it so i can't breathe, pain when i breathe in, neck pain, headaches, dents in my head, blurry vision, dizzyness, helplessness, feeling the need to give up, head rush, pounding and fast heart for no reason, constant feeling of heart, ear ache, ear discharge, pain when passing urine, nausea, burning in throat, weak muscles, weak ankles, these are just a few of the symptoms i experience on a daily basis. This is how bad it is for me.
Please could you help me :(
I have had health anxiety now for about 4 years, it stops and starts and at times it is unbearable. Anxiety has taken over my life, stopping me from being able to see my friends, go out to places, go out for meals, holidays, everything a 16 year old would love to do! I can't.
I left school when i was 14 because of bullying and went into home schooling, this didn't really help with my friendships as me seeing them got less and less until it was almost me never seeing them. Now im at the point where i have no friends because i always cancel on them, this is due to my anxiety, i can't explain to them what health anxiety is and how much it can destroy your life, none of them would understand.
Ive started seeing a counciller, but i find its not helping me enough. Im not sure what to do, i feel like im on my own.
I hate going out into public or where anyone young can see me, i am SO self concious! I'm trying to lose weight at the moment but its not really working, anything i eat i feel the need to excercise straight after or punish myself for eating it. I am really feeling down and depressed, i always snap at my family and feel like im making everyones lives a misery. Nothing seems to be helping. Plus i have all these horrible symptoms which are ruling my life, i get scared to sleep incase i die in my sleep which makes me so weak and tierd everyday, i just dont know what to do anymore, its getting out of control.
I get chest pain, stomach pain, rib pain, pain which makes it so i can't breathe, pain when i breathe in, neck pain, headaches, dents in my head, blurry vision, dizzyness, helplessness, feeling the need to give up, head rush, pounding and fast heart for no reason, constant feeling of heart, ear ache, ear discharge, pain when passing urine, nausea, burning in throat, weak muscles, weak ankles, these are just a few of the symptoms i experience on a daily basis. This is how bad it is for me.
Please could you help me :(