I've been struggling on and off with anxiety for quite some time. This year, I started college so it has been stressful and I believe that is what brought this on again as it originally started my first year of high school. One of my biggest fears is throwing up. Why? I couldn't tell you because not many people understand. Anyways, so my anxiety tends to cling to nausea (of course), I have constant pressure and pain in my jaw and under my tongue and my stomach gets upset as well. With spring rolling in and my allergies going crazy these symptoms get worse. I take care of my allergies as well as other medical stuff as good as I can and since my anxiety circles around health, I promise I am very precise. I recently went back to seeing my therapist, which I had seen a couple of years ago when my anxiety first started. I only see him once every two weeks and it doesn't seem to help. This keeps me from doing a lot such as going out with my friends, doing my homework, today I had to stop vacuuming because I felt so sick that I couldn't move. I get shaking, nauseas, my ocd spikes and I am glued to wherever I am. It is taking over my life once again, what should I do?
What is your age ana r you living with family?
Yes I am 18 and still with my parents
Hey I understand perfectly. I am also going through a tough time, I’m 19 female and I know exactly how you feel. For me its not nausea but dizziness and tiredness all the time and visual disturbances that i’m afriad there is something wrong with my brain. This too has stopped me from doing or enjoying things like drinking, going out or concentrating at school and I know how horrible it feels. Specially when you see other students living a normal life and thinking why can’t you be like them. I also go to therapy, do meditation and just recently started working out at the gym again. I’m not better yet but I can give you some tips, first of all no matter how bad you feel, try to see your friends and go out. Distract yourself from the anxiety (I know its tough) but it helps me. Also maybe consider going on medication. I just started medication 2 weeks ago (still not very different but it takes time). I’m being patient with it. I didn’t want to go down that road but I’ve been having anxiety and all the physical symptoms that go with it for 5 months now so I finally gave in to medication. However I also work on my thoughts. What is helping me are some excercises fromCBT that train thw mind. I found them online and I work on changing my thought patterns 20 minutes everyday. It goes like this: I give myself a worry time everyday (say 6pm) and I write for 5 minutes all of my worries. Then I take 20 minutes to challwnge those worries everyday. Also try to do some positive journaling, etc. You can train your thoughts and mind and get better, I kniw it doesn’t seem like it now but you will get better.
Thank you so much. It's been tough and yes exactly, it seems like everyone else is able to live normally and no one seems to understand. These are great tips I will start instantly! And I've been starting to think about medication but was unsure about it, I will talk to my Dr though. Hopefully your medication will start helping soon and I will definitely try your techniques today, it's greatly appreciated.
Thats good. Did you discuss your matter with parents