Hello everyone, I'm suffering from social anxiety and agoraphobia for a couple years now. My anxiety is changing continuous. It all started because of bad past with lots of stress and a drug related trigger to finally set things off. It's not only social and agoraphobia, but my overall anxiety is on constant high level. I'm just binding on every little thing anxiety or a gloomy thought I've done therapy, but nothing worked for a long time. I've tried medication, but I stopped because it didn't work out for me. I'm not planning to take it again, because of everything I've read about. My anxiety is now on such a high level that even opening the door for someone who delivers the post is a struggle? Can you believe that? I can't even believe it myself. A week ago I was still doing groceries (with someone) which felt like hell, but I was doing it, but after a bad experience (panic) everything changed and I hit a new bottom line. My biggest fear is losing control. At the moment I'm afraid of it almost every single situation. Sometimes I feel like it because of stress (I believe). Like I'm standing next to my shoes. Currently I'm waiting for a new psychologist. A good one. I'm going to do day treatment. I feel like it's the only thing that can pull me out of this mess. It feels like I'm going to throw myself in a den full of lions, but hopefully it will be worth it. I'm 20 years old and I never had a normal life. Hopefully I can some day, but for now it feels something that's impossible to achieve. I wonder if I'm the only who has or is experiencing this level of anxiety, because I feel like it can't be worse then this and if someone is familiar with day treatment and if it helped out.
To add some anxiety symptoms;
- Light headed
- Raised heartbeat
- Brain fog
- Wrong breathing pattern
- Head pressure
- Tense eyes
Especially eye contact when stressed is a very big problem.
If I had to explain where I’m afraid of if I think of losing control (which a lot times is even difficult to explain myself);
- Doing something extremely bad or stupid
- Fainting
- Psychoses
I’m not born this way. I know I’m not this person who I currently am, but I’m aware I’m naturally more sensitive for anxiety. I actually had a (small) period where I was pretty much a rebel and had lots of social contacts. But even at that time I was walking against big problems. I was just out of most of my problems in my childhood.
The thing is, I’m person who lives like it’s all or nothing and currently or well 99% of my life it was nothing.
Hi there, I recently completed a day treatment out patient mental health day program group therapy program at my local hospital and it helped me out so much I finished it up at the end of last year and I’m currently on the waiting list for the cbt group to start once a week every Tuesday morning (cognitive behavior therapy) you will love it at group therapy trust me you will make so many new friends and learn so much about yourself. I recently started having severe anxiety issues again and I think it’s because I’ve been having severe insomnia problems for the past two months so I just saw my psychiatrist yesterday morning and she prescribed me a nre sleeping pill and I had to get the pharmacy to order it in for me so I have to pick it up in the morning so if I can just get through one more night of only sl three hours tonight but I take 0.5mg of clonazepam 4x a day for my anxiety and panic attacks and lately it doesn’t seem to be helping me and I also take toprimate for my mood stabilizer and my anxiety and she increased my mood stabilizer to 50mg during the day and I take 100mg at night and it’s helped me lose alot of weight in the past six months or so and it’s helped me to stop crying 
all the time and I should probably increase my zoloft but right now I am taking 50mg of zoloft each night and I was taking 75mg each night but I felt it was too much for me so I got her to decrease my zoloft yesterday and I also take 60mg of temazepam each night for my severe insomnia and I used to take saphris for my severe insomnia too but once I start taking this new sleeping 
pill tomorrow night I have to stop taking the saphris but she’s Startig me out on 50mg which is a low dose and she said if I still couldn’t sleep to just get the pharmacy to fax her and she would increase the dose to 100mg so I’m having a lot of anxiety just thinking about whether or not this new sleeping pill is going to work out for me or not and I don’t want to gain any weight from it because I’ve lost almost 50 pounds in the past six months. So you’re not alone when it comes to having night levels of anxiety but do you take any medication for your anxiety right now? 
you’re not alone,i feel you because we have the same social anxiety.i am afraid of travel or going out of my comfortzone.but i deal with it,even though i have a bad feeling or panick.i did not use any meds.and i did not get check up.