Hi everyone I've been suffering with anxiety disorder for 6 years now, I did manage to get it under control with help from a anxiety councillor, but the last few weeks it has hit me hard, I think I'm having a heart attack my chest hurts bad, jaw pain, pains in my arms, I just scare myself silly the worst is when I wake up in a state of panic. If anyone can help me out with what might of helped them I b very grateful
Try asking your doctor for a small amount of something just for attacks. Sometimes it helps to just know it’s there and if you do have an attack and can’t take it take a Valium or Xanax and it might help. If you’ve been examined by a doctor trust that it’s just anxiety. I almost started to welcome it when I felt it coming on and they still come but it wouldn’t be as intense or as frequent
Angela
Do you have any idea what has caused this backward step.
If possible try and use the techniques explained by your Councillor, they may help. The main proble you seem to have is to have someone say you will be ok. If that is the case talk to your GP and explain your Anxiety to Him
Try Mindfulness Relaxation Technique that may help
BOB
Is there a particular incident or time that the anxiety started, something in your life that triggered the anxiety? Or, is it free-floating and constant? I would imagine that you have had a doctor check you out and don't have heart problems. That is a first step and I went through that, but still didn't believe them. That was many years ago. Anxiety and its symptoms take many forms. Psychosomatic symptoms are bodily reactions to stress and fears/thoughts or reactions to things that you are unhappy with in life. I was much younger when I was on Valium and it didn't help because getting over anxiety is like anything else in life, you have to conquer your fears despite the bodily reactions. Learning as much about it is good, joining a support group, which I didn't have at the time. Medications, therapy, and maturation (working through the fears/worries) is a process. Set a goal with what you want to accomplish, (tackling the problems, irrational fears, life situations that you either have to change or learn to cope with, etc.) and work through them on a daily basis, realizing that your irrational fears will fight you, but you will get better over time. It is a process. Medication does help at times. There is a higher power as well
Thank you Gary I have suffered for 6 years with it now, thought I was better until I started working with family(never again) my biggest fear is dying I know it may sound silly but I have been faced a lot of it, and what started my anxiety originally off was I went to the doctors for a chest infection and he told me I was having a heart attack I had my 15 month old baby in my arms when he told me that, it was Christmas time too, so my anxiety always flares up loads this time of year