Hi first of all i say sorry to all of u for posting again.
I hv heart condition but dr said i hv anxiety.
Now my brain is so weak. I hv pain in my vains of brain. My eyes are feeling heavy. Its seems my brain will stop and i become mad. Every day i hv a new feeling. My life is ruined. Cannot understand what i do. Which dr i choose. Already visited many dr. Please tell me what i do.
You don't seem to be getting any reassurance from this forum. Are you speaking to / on a list for psychiatric help for your mental health issues?
Caz i m getting much reassurance from this forum. But every day i hv a new problem and new symptoms. Now i have pain in my back of the brain and my eyes are feeling heavy like sleepy. I sleep at night 9 hours. I think nerves of my brain and eyes are weak. I m in very much difficult situation. Dont know what i do.
Based on everything you've said it honestly sounds like your anxiety and mental health issues at play. These can create new symptoms all the time. I started my bout of health anxiety with fears about my heart - I had palpitations, dizzying spells, chest pain, weakness, nausea, sweats. I saw cardiologist and dr's, had egs that were all normal. Felt reassured for a bit. Then found my hemangioma on my tongue changes colour... panicked it was cancerous. Got it checked out, it was fine. Saw skin marks change, thought it was skin cancer. Again went to specialist, it's fine. And so on and so on. That's what health anxiety does! You tick off one symptom or problem, you worry about the next new symptom. At some point you either believe what the dr's are saying or you accept this is your life.
So you have two choices here... accept the possibility that all your physical symptoms are in fact all from anxiety...including your heart issues and these new issues with your brain/head/fatigue and seek medical help for your anxiety.... counseling, physciatrists, medications to suppress anxiety etc. You try the mindfulness. You commit to the CBT or the excercises they suggest.
OR you don't believe your current tests or drs...you see more drs, pay private if you have to for more invasive tests and scans. You worry about each new symptom, you seek reassurance each time but it's short lived...you continue chasing it with possibility that eventually they'll either find something else and you'll get another diagnosis that isn't anxiety that you will need to deal with. OR you could spend all that time/money/effort and they'll too say it's anxiety, nothing more.
So sorry if this sounds blunt, you're clearly severely suffering and I feel for you, I really do, it sucks. But you are solely in control of what action you choose to take.
Good luck and best wishes to you. x
Dear Caz i m really thankful to you. I m from Pakistan and English is noy my first language but i can undeestand . Main problem in writing cannot explain my issue properly. But i m really thankful to u that you understand and give me your honest opinion. Dear as i told you that i hv english problem so mindfulness video in english and problem for me to understand whole things. U write about CBT. WHAT is CBT?
I have spend more than half million rupee on private doctors. Try to become brave but cannot. Caz please tell me what was your anxiety problems and how you cure. I want your help Caz. I m not a rich man .my country is also not rich. I have unemployment problem.
I m thankful to you for your encouragement. Please tell me what i first step take. Thanks
I did a quick search on YouTube, typed in 'Mindfulness Pakistan / urdu' and it came up with a few videos that looked to be in native tongue, not English. So suggest you start there.
CBT is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Its about retraining the mind and thought process and changing your perception / bad habits / refocusing the mind. If you Google this, there is lots of info. I did a quick search here too and there seems to be a site if you type into search 'pactorganization' you will see it. Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists. There are other sites but this may be easily for you to understand.
I'd start with these two for now as so not to overwhelm you.
My anxiety problems I've had for years, but I have mixed anxiety and depressive disorder. In other words over the years I've struggled with health fears and worry, general anxiety, self esteem issues and mild depression. But they're no longer severely constrained to one category of anxiety, so I'm now classed as mixed.
Caz I was wondering if you could help me I've had many tests done on my chest but still constantly for the past 6 months get pain in both sides of my chest they say it's cause of anxiety can anxiety really cause pain like this I'm going for this long I'm trying to understand the hole anxiety process and trying to calm my self but it is hard to when your in constant pain
Thanks again Caz... caz Allah bless u because U r helping me. Do u hv family or u r alone person. U do any job or u have a busy daily routine. I m toltally free no friend. Its a big cause in my problem.
It is super hard, I agree. It's like trying to balance on one foot whilst someone pokes you with a stick. Sorry that you're also having prolonged chest pains.
Can anxiety cause it? From my experiences yes, certainly. It's all to do with the body's fight or flight response, we assess a threat and react. In the case of chest pain, it was explained to me that my perceived threat (i.e.heart attack) was causing my muscles to tense up to be ready to respond /, prepare for a possible attack. But because I was then obsessing on the fear, googling symptoms and feeding that cycle of emotion, my body basically was tensing up more, palpitations increased, my chest got tighter and my muscles spasmed due to being so tense causing the sharp stabbing pains. We're catastrophizing the situation.
If you've had tests done and all evidence points to anxiety, then trying to treat the anxiety would be the first step. Try looking up worry tree and draw one out to see if it helps you question your current thought process.... and I didn't believe it either at first but time, tests and therapy have helped me accept and rationalize when I do get symptoms now and the aches/pains *touch wood* really have reduced. They may return at some point but here's hoping.
I hope it does help. I am fortunate that I still have a few friends who understand my anxiety issues and a good family network. My deepest apologies that you are alone in this. If you can, see if anywhere offers group therapy sessions. It will increase your support group.
I do work and my employer knows about my anxiety. My manager is very open to it since I confided which takes some of the pressure off. I don't think work always helps the anxiety but I do appreciate I'm still able to work, I know some people cannot.
Thanks Caz. Actually in this world the anxiety is the bigest problem. There are many factors who increase this. In developing countries its more than developed countries.
I pray for all. ALLAH BLESS ALL OF US.