What triggered your anxiety

ive recently been diagnosed with GAD and severe health anxiety. i had a miscarriage in august and been suffering with this ever since. i find it really difficult to understand this has all developed because of my miscarriage and worried it is something serious that the drs are missing. is the miscarriage really enough to cause this and im interested to know how other people started with anxiety and their experiences both mentally and physically

So sorry for your loss :frowning: but yes I think something like that could definitely cause anxiety! Mine was first triggered at 13 because of a “friend” that bullied me.. then 4 years ago I was triggered by extreme stress along with finding my mom trying to take tons of pills…so yeah anything thats traumatic for you can trigger it.

Im just curious on how they diagnosed you with that? Was it just by you telling them your symptoms or was there a test given?

it was by a questionnaire and me just telling them. thats why i dont believe them because how do they know just from talking to me

Right im in the same situation, and iv never had anxiety before it just came out the blew after a stressful situation i was in and now im convinced something is wrong but the doctors look at me and asked “are u okay i think your depressed”. When i have never been depressed or had anxiety.

im so sorry for your loss, i do believe something like that could trigger it, thats a very hard thing to over come.

I began having anxiety attacks recently after an auto accident. It wasn’t even the worst accident I’ve been in but what made it worse was I never saw the other car coming until it was too late. I ended up in the ER couple of times with all the symptoms of a heart attack which I thought I was having.

Pretty scary but medicine has helped quite a lot.