What do you think triggered your anxiety?

[Elle-Kay]

What does everyone think was the trigger for them first starting to suffer with Anxiety? I'm not talking about what triggers attacks here, but what people think was the very first thing that made them anxious in the first place...

For me, I think it is all related to a car accident I was in when I was 18 months old. I don't remember the accident, but from the court papers I was given when I turned 18 and received my compensation for my injuries I know that the crash caused the windows in the car to shatter, and then, when I was about 3 or 4 years old (it went on until I was about 8!) there is another entry that says I was on a bus with my mum, and somehow one of the windows smashed and I started screaming and crying that it was "like daddy's car", so obviously something in my subconscious remembered the accident, even though I was so young at the time. Nothing else really happened until I was 14 or 15 and on my way on the bus to my work experience placement for school. Again, a window smashed somewhere, and suddenly I remember being in a real panic. That's the earliest memory I have of having a PA, and my anxiety really kicked in a few months later, in the summer holidays, so I can't help but think that the three incidents are somehow connected, and that subconsciously I remember our original car accident...

Leah xx

--- Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

[chucklehound]

The Drs think mine was due to being sexually abused 2 weeks after having my first son.

Take care

Chuckle

xxxx

[manmoor]

Hi Leah,

Mine started when my dad died with cancer over 10 years ago hence my health anxiety.

Take Care

Mandy

xx

[pips]

Nothing really that's the annoying part. I put it down to my personality. A born worrier and over sensitive always trying to please etc...

Take Care,

Love PIP'S X X

[JustBenn]

Nothing really that's the annoying part. I put it down to my personality. A born worrier and over sensitive always trying to please etc...

Take Care,

Love PIP'S X X

This, and also secretly smoking cigarettes in 2009, I think it might have been the cigarettes mostly because I was fine before,

[Thumbelina]

That's an old thread but i saw it and would like to comment.
I also started looking for family history after being diagnosed with GAD, and my dad told me that my great grandmother have been saying allot that she felt she was dying. She was physically fine but she was oftens saying that she felt unreal and passing out.
Mind it was in the last century and all main psychiatry flourished in 60-70 of this century. Before all these symptoms would be diagnosed as "madness".
she lived long life and never been diagnosed with anything psychological.
One of my brothers suffers from panic attacks but controls it. My dad just had a heart attack due to stress, I guess we all are a bit of nervous wrecks, hard to say but makes more sense I suppose to look at it like that for me.

I also believe that by knowing that I can manage it better.

[uru]

Nothing really that's the annoying part. I put it down to my personality. A born worrier and over sensitive always trying to please etc...

Take Care,

Love PIP'S X X

Same

[Blinkyrocket]

I was generally shy a lot all my life but I accidentally sat down to watch "The Core" with my parents one day and got extremely freaked out, obviously I was already vulnerable though, or else simply watching The Core wouldn't have been so bad. Also, a radio talk show about health or something was playing and it said that a fast heart beat was bad. Idk which one came first and which one started the feeling like nothing was safe and that the only way I would feel better was just "not to think about it" but it was one or both of those things when I was very young. After that, I spent a few years getting random things that I was convinced were all in my head, like the feeling that there was no air left in the atmosphere. For 2 years I had this feeling in my throat that was maddening to the point of whimpering and just wishing that I would stop thinking about I because I "knew" that it was all in my head. And then for idk how long, probably a year, I had this rushing sound in my ear that never went away because I assumed that it was once again "all in my head". During and after this I never got any rest, complete inner tension, the only times it let up were when I watched movies that truly engaged me and enraptured me like Inception. Those times were so good because the tension let up finally that the movies that actually did that became the best movies in the world to me and I nearly cry when I listen to their soundtracks.

[hayles]

Im with Pips.
Born worrier.....always have been.
But it got real bad when I first moved out of home!!!!!

I only ever feel safe round certain people!

Hay x

[april tones]

Hi, i was born worrier also!
Its in my genes on my dads side! My poor dad is loads worse than me and i really feel for him but he wont get help or speak to anyone, just blocks it out with doing sports and always on go!

Mine started after 3 long years of drug abuse,termination,Something which happened with a ex boyfriend!

april xx

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