Re: Feels like anxiety is physically killing me.
Originally Posted by
StarsDie
I think my anxiety is killing me.
It isn't.
And if it isn't, it's making me wish it were.
Anxiety can't kill you.
Despite this, I've managed my actual panic symptoms well through meditation and things of the sort.
But I can't shake my depression. I just kind of hate existing right now. I wake up unhappy to be awake. I want whatever this all is to be over. If things aren't going to get better, but worse... What's the point.
I understand where you're coming from because I have multiple physical conditions (aside the long list of MH ones) and as hard as I try to help myself, there are still times when pain gets the better of me and I wonder what the point is too. Then the pain eventually subsides and I wake up to a better day and something else - hope.
When it comes to chronic pain, you have my empathy. Nobody can understand how soul destroying this can be unless they've experienced it, and for a long time.
I'm used to my depressive phases. They come on after the fibro flares and to be honest, because my norm is to exist on a very high level of anxiety - the depressive phases give me a rest from the hyper shit. I can finally cry for a start. But if the weeks were to stretch into months then I'd be asking for help with it. Are you asking for help with how you feel?
What support are you getting with your conditions?
Are you on medication? If so, are you on the right ones?
Do you do any physiotherapy?
Anxiety isn't killing you. The opposite is the case because anxiety involves the fight or flight response which is there to save our lives. It's the depression that you need to be concentrating on at the moment and I have a feeling that you're not being supported as effectively as you could be?
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