Does anyone else feel that they are going crazy due to their anxiety.
Yes. When i am havng a panic attack i feel i will lose my mind and end up in an institution its like my head is burning and screaming.
Ive been there many a time but I know it's just anxiety and depression.
Definitely thought I was going crazy years ago as I didn't realise anybody else felt like me. Didn't think I had anxiety, thought I had too many horrid symptoms for it to be anxiety. The way my head went round and round I thought I must be mad or something. Thought I would be diagnosed with something terrible as I felt so bad. Having said that anxiety is serious enough, can't explain to 'normal people ' how bad it is, thank goodness we can ask advice from other sufferers here and reasured we are not mad, just a maddening illness. Asked once to be admitted to a mental hospital as my head just drove me crazy, but doctor started to realise how serious I was and I started to get the right help, know how you feel, there is hope though, keep posting and reading people's advice , try to relate to it and be encouraged that you won't always feel like this❤️
I am so silly the other day a lady in the rest home were I work hit her head on the wall as we were changing her and I convinced myself that she would die and I would be blamed. So the next day I rang up and lied about leaving my mobile phone there so I could check on her xx
Hi Claire. Yes I and many others have been where you are. I even asked my therapist if I was going to lose my mind and never come back. She assured me that I was not. I am telling you that you are not crazy. You are suffering from anxiety, which at it's worst can make you feel crazy. I am sorry you are suffering from this. It will get better. You will get better.
Sounds so like me. I have to check on things all the time or it will go round in my head. I convince myself I have to sort a situation out that seems trivial or rediculois to others or I just can't settle, bit OCD but my anxiety loves it, very similar. This seems strange to others who just think we are obsessive or overly worry. I can't understand people like my hubby who are so laid back and never worry, I always think this isn't normal and if something goes wrong they won't be ready or able to deal with it. Wish I could find a happy medium. Just another frustrating anxiety symptom, your not the only one don't worry, nowadays if I get like this I try to run it past someone for reasurance and their opinion, have done the same as you though , told little white lies to settle my mind. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone and settles my mind . I work a lot on my 'stinking thinking' sometimes successfully now .❤️
I have felt like that a lot recently 
It's horrible! I keep obsessing and worrying that I have something seriously wrong with me - my doctor said it was just anxiety but I don't know 
. I really need to refer myself to a therapist and hopefully will feel 'normal' happy functioning human again! Have been taking St Johns Wart and think that has lifted my mood a little bit but still get anxious/don't have the energy to do a lot..... fingers crossed everything works out!
Holly
YES!!