I’m fairly certain I’ve got anxiety… even my doctors seem to think I’ve got anxiety and Worcestershire Healthy Minds seem to think I’ve got anxiety. Except I’ve never gotten an official diagnosis and my doctors have never even seemed to try with my case.
I think my anxiety causes a lot of physical symptoms… I don’t know if this is typical or not but I have really bad headaches, fatigue, really bad chest pains (to the point where I literally can’t even breath without it hurting… it’s awful), muscle pains, it makes my psoriasis so much worse. I can’t leave my bed some days and my doctors know this. I get blood tests and they’re “just outside normal range”… I get EKGs and they’re fine… (blood pressure and heart rate isn’t though). After each of these tests, nurses say they’ll call me back (they don’t). Honestly if they actually think anxiety is causing this why don’t they just bother and get me some sort of treatment. I had to bloody self refer myself to Worcestershire Healthy Minds and I’ve been on a waiting list for about a year now with nothing. This has been going on since I’ve been about 14/15
Like is it so hard for my doctors to just try with me…? I mean this one time I was talking about how I was feeling suicidal and they didn’t bother with me at all?? Like they just sent me home?? The only reason I got out of the worst of it was that my school noticed how bad I was and gave me free counselling… and now my doctors are telling me to get school counselling again (I don’t even think my school offers it to sixth form students and even if they did I would only get it free for 6 sessions and then I’d have to pay which I can’t do.). Like what’s the point in even trying with them anymore?