I just wanted to ask others if with severe Anxiety it is there all day, every day. I been diagnosed with Anxiety and have previously had OCD which has returned. It is like the thoughts and feelings of Anxitety are there 24/7. I wake up in the morning and straight away I am panicky and the obsessive thoughts are terrible. I think I am going mad, haing a stroke,brain tumour etc, this morning I think am going blind! I read about Anxiety disorders and people go to work with them and function...I find it hard just to do the housework...my brain feels muddled,my head feels weird, I get strange pains and numbness in parts of my body and numerous other symptoms.... I feel detatched...from everything and the thoughts never let up and cause me panic attacks most of the day. Sometimes at night it lets up a bit and is not as bad but it is always there so just wanted to ask Is this normal for Anxiety?
Hi Claire
For some reason i noticed that anxiety seems to make the ocd get more intense than normal.The only way to fix that is to do exactly what the ocd doesnt want you to do.Ocd is like a scale that goes up on tje graph and when u feed it it goes back down.However itll go to same magnitude back again and so on until you feed it.
What you should do is to act with the exact opposite of what your ocd tells u.
U feel that your hands are dirty go get them more dirty and touch things you dont usually touch when u feel this like sand and soo on.
You feel that you are dying embrace the feeling and let it try to kill u until the end even if u cant breath just wait for it Until it chockes u more.
Yout gonna realize after that that u are still alive and nothing happened to u.This is when ocd will decrease to a great extent to a point that you wont
Feel itvas intense anymore.Whatever you dont feed the ocd when u feel better cause itll set u back.keep messing with it and in a month time u can get rid of it completely.
REGARDING your anxiety as i mentioned before the only cure for it is fun and not just sitting depressed in a room thinking about it.Go out and have fun go crazy enjoy and laugh about it and make fun of it.Party,and do whatever made you happy before the anxiety came.
No matter how hard it seems to accomplish with your head and how hard it seems to go back to normal its not true at all.
Your head is just stuck in a bow right now and wont show u the outside.
The moment u have fun youll take your thinking to a differant place and you wont even remember what the anxirty is about youll be cured.
GO OUT AND HaVE FUN ANd Go crazy and stop thinking about it.
In no time everything is gonna come back to normal and youll be soo happy with a little nice bonus which is strength.
You just got stronger.
And btw crazy people dont know that they are going crazy they just act it.
IF YOU THINK U ARE GETTING CRAZY MEANS THAT YOU ARE STILL NORMAL.
Have a nice day
Hey folks great advice :-) I Suffer like clare with anxity and ocd negative thoughts. I feel like I get a new topic each week. It's so stupid. But regrading what you guys say is totally right. When am busy and up and about I think less and feel so much stronger. I get the urge knocking go... "Go back to your comfort shez go back " like my body is saying run away I've done this year's. It's clearly made me worse. I feel not normal anynore and dont feel the same person I used to, even laughing feels weird as I'm not used to it. But i try do it and try to think positivie. I've been pushing on latley and telling my self stay positive and just get up and do things anyway. I feel I can sit around qnd feel worse with anxity or get up with it. Either way you have to just plod on. I need to work on my breathing as i am very short and shallow apparently this is not good and working diaphragm is better and mindful meditation is meant to be good for calming :-)
I'm keeping music on more often I feel u i would rather sing then thjnk about anxity haha.
Anyway great advice there and I defo agree with it all. Hope it helps u clare, let's keep pushing and battle through this we will come out stronger :-)
You described me EXACTLY!!! I feel just like you but I force myself to get up and pretend to be normal. Work everyday, etc. I find that often times my symptoms are less when I'm doing things to keep my mind off them. Other times they are worse, especially when I'm at work, but I try to just tell myself they are just scary and not dangerous. Are you on meds?
Weirdly enough I felt awful today....severe thoughts and derealisation but I went out not on my own I might add but whilst I was occupied it was nice to forget about the thoughts if even for a minute....it scary though when am walking around I keep thinking am guna faint but thought oh well If I faint my other half will call an ambulance! In regards to being on Meds I started a week ago on Escitalapram only 5mg which I think the doc is going to up this week...He gave me something called Phernagan to calm me down and help me sleep...doesnt really work though...well maybe a little! what are others experience on medication and it being helpful with the OCD?
Hey Claire,
I know what you mean! I had two months of horrible anxiety convincing myself I had a brain tumor and any type of cancer I could think of (melanoma, lymphoma) It came to a head after a couple of stressful situations when I suddenly became detatched (depersonalised) and It freaked me out, after 3 days I went to the doctor who started me on flu and I have to say the first 3 weeks were such a struggle. Having to go to class and trying to do assignments when I couldn't even think straight! however, now i'm into my 5th week of flu and I feel so much better. I feel when I start trying to feed my thoughts that I have an illness I can calm myself down and distract myself. The best advice I got is to normalise everything. I still went to my classes and work and parties even when I was feeling detached from reality and i'm not going to lie it was terrible at first. But now I feel like I have my confidence back and finally feel clear headed for the first time in weeks. I do have wee OCD's but i have found fluoxetine fantastic for both this and anxiety. It was terrible getting used to it at first but now I am definitely feeling the benefits. A lot of people don't want to take medication for their anxiety, I've always been an anxious person and was on anti anxietys for a bit a few years ago. Due to stubborness I didn't want to go back on them. I realised some things you can't deal with by yourself and taking medication does not make me weak. I take anti anxiety and have weekly councilling which is a great combination for me personally! and it also helps that I have supportive family, friends and partner who have all been fantasitc. How are you feeling today?
hello gee, please tell me more about yur experiences with prozac an the dosages. i am going to ask my docor about going back on it again imalso wondering wheher or not to reduce my quetiapine from 250 mg to 200 mg because of drowsyness.