Whenever I write in forums, I notice that no one ever answers me. I am scared that will be true for this one. Of course that is my anxiety speaking. For the past three years I have had extreme anxiety. I was diagnosed with general anxiety in my early teens. Now I am 24 and I have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder. Sometimes I get bad panic attacks where my chest and ribs hurt. At times it can feel like my heart, sometimes my lungs. I always jump to the worst conclusions: heart attack, lung cancer, tumor, you name it. When it gets really bad I feel like I am going to faint, my vision gets blurry or shaky, my heart beats fast, body parts go numb. I now have a bump right under my collar bone so I am scared that is a tumor, but I just started running and working out so I am hoping it is just an irritation.
I am also a hypochondriac, if you haven't figured that out yet. I have gone to the doctor with severe headaches last year and claimed it was a brain tumor, hemorrhage, aneurysm. Now it's all in my chest. I walk and it gets hard to breath so I am convinced that there is something wrong. My doctor knows that I have anxiety so when I went in two weeks ago she listend to my lungs and heart and said it sounded fine and gave me a referral to a doctor who specializes in acid reflux. The doctor is in her practice, so I am thinking she is just trying to get money out of me.
My problem is that this is an everyday thing. I think I am going to die and I love life so much, I am so young I want to be able to live it without worrying about all this stuff. I have a great boyfriend, I am getting straight A's in graduate school, but sometimes I have to walk out of class, or out of movie theaters because I cannot take my mind off of what is going on in my body. I am at my wits end and I don't know what to do. I am trying to meditate everyday. I do the 4,7,8 breathing and sometimes the alternate breathing where you switch nostrils.
Is this happening to anyone else? Am I the only one going crazy? How do I know that it really is just anxiety and that I am not sick? I don't want this to ruin my relationship or my good grades. Crying helps, but I want to feel better. I want this to go away, even if it can't forever, I don't want this to happen to me every single day. My therapist gives me some tools, but I can't seem to stop my obsession with sickness and death.
Sweety, We all know your pain. Has your doctor prescribed benzodiapines? To calm you more. It hit me at 26 also. Im 46 now. You will get better, just takes time and effort and work.. Keep a lot of tools in your tool chest.
First off. Breath. Count to ten. I have the same thing. Everytime i have a pain i feel im gona die however i do have medical problems and im not saying that to scare you. Im 36 and have many health problems that have made me paranoid but i also have multiple personality disorder so that does not help. I know how you feel and there are tons of people that know how you feel but its something you have to learn to live with. If you think about death every day the then life is not much fun. Your young enjoy what you have.
If the doctor say you have anxiety, then accept that you have anxiety. I am 16 years old & I've been to the er 3 times. Have had 3 ekgs, an eco, a holter, 3 chest X rays, blood tests, & a stress test. I know your pain. I have the same problem. But as long as you worry & let the problem engluff you, it's only going to get worse. fear & worry make you feel like s**t. Please excersise, meditate, & eat right. When i went to see the cardiologist all he told me to do was drink more fluids LMAO. I garuntee you that the reason why the way you are feeling is 100% your subconscious. & untill you change the way you think, you won't feel better. Think deeper than how you feel. Wish you the best of luck! xoxo
Bexxa..
Anxiety can be an expensive problem especially if yo need to pay for your treatment and medications
All I can suggest is you discuss your anxiety with your GP and see if you can have a course of CBT to control your concerns and associated medication You could try Mindfulness a Relaxation Technique and do some research on your condition from the internet, so yo can start controlling your Anxiety.
If you need to pay for treatment, you live in a country with no NHS treatments can be expensive
BOB
Reading your post is like you have written it for me the only difference is I don't go out anymore because of the feelings I've been on citalopram didn't work mirtazapine didn't work I'm now on sertraline but not very long and quetipine I found that diazepam works but it's only short term my doctors don't like to give them all the time I'm now with a safety and support team due to my suicidal thoughts when I find a way out of this ■■■■ I promise I will be back on this site and many other to help people like us I'm making it my life goal