How my life is going so far

hello all!
Its been awhile since i posted anything on this forum, but i would like to start off saying thank you so much for the support all of you have given me especially you Larry, SC and Kitt. you guys really helped me through my journey through my health anxiety and offered great great advice and will never forget about any of you. You three are truly wonderful people and i really appreciate the help you have not only given me but others that have come on this forum for their troubles. And I only wish you guys the best in your lives sand pray for you three and all of the wonderful people on this forum.

So how has my life been going? It has been well and have been getting by great. I fully participate in my gym class and do everything that is on the agenda whether its running lifting or something different. Unfortunately we have to run the mile again but since I'm a senior in high school it'll be my last one that ill have to do! But i do plan on keeping myself in shape even after school is done and i graduate.

Sorry for any bad punctation i am just typing my story and am not really paying attention to it right now haha.

School in general has been going well for me. I have reached my final semester in high school and my grades are fine. My AP art class i am in is giving me a little stress though because this semester we are building our concentration section of our 24p piece portfolio and this section contains 12 pieces that relate to one ideology or topic and it kind of has to be in a story like fashion. plus we have to have a piece done each week which doesn't sit well with me because i like to take time on my works so i need to change my concentration up to where i can put out a project each week and follow the criteria for the portfolio i am doing. plus ill be a work under schedule so its a little stressful. but aside from that everything else is fine. One thing I'm really excited about is that i recently got my new PS4!! for those who don't know it is a video game console and it is AWESOME! i really enjoy playing it and cannot wait for this next generation of video games to be released!

Speaking of video games… my plan for after high school and college is that i really want to try computer programming. now i am not exceptionally good with computers because i did not have much exposure but it is a very easy thing for me to learn but i want to learn programming because i would really love to go into the video game industry. I want to become a game programmer if possible. so i would like to start out at a community college and see how i like it and move on from there. even if i can't make it into the game industry it'll be very easy to find a job anyways with a computer science and programing degree. so i am excite to be starting that eventually.

Now as for my anxiety…. It has been one year since the birth of my health anxiety and i am happy to say that i have come a lot farther now than i was back then. i was unbelievable scared back then that id die of a heart condition it was crazy, but thanks to my many doctors and my family and support group i am better able to cope with it and continue to live my life. I still experience symptoms such as PVCs and some other symptoms that i normally ignore for the most part. sometimes when i walk upstairs or just do short bursts of activity as simple as getting up from laying in bed and laying back down its like my heart beats really hard for a few seconds and just goes back to normal and it feels like m chest will explode almost ( probably an exaggeration but i had no better way to describe it). I get that a lot mainly from activity but it doesn't last long at all which is good. my cardiologist told me after my stress test in october that everything from a cardiac standpoint is fine which is what I'm living off of right now and believing. eventually i would like to go back to the doctor for a check up and questions but i can hold it now. some days are good with anxiety and some are bad but the bad days aren't as bad as i used to have. I can fight what ever comes my way and can cope with it. i usually just let the feeling go or watch tv or something.

So that is how my life is going so far. and i still ask for your thoughts and prayers to help me along my journey with anxiety and will still be here to offer help when i can. I will never forget about this website or you guys. this was a huge part of my life and will never forget about it.

It was a long message i know but i thank you for reading, and thank you for everything you all have done,

Josh.

Josh,
It is wonderful to read a success story like yours! It tells others that there is hope and that although there may never be a complete "cure", life does go on and can still be great! It is truly good of you to come here and share your thoughts and feelings, b/c so many people today tend to be unappreciative of the good that others do for them. You, on the other hand, show that nice people still do care and are "paying it forward". Like you, I agree that Kitt, SC, and Larry are super kind folks and I'd say that Josh is too!
janet

Ha thanks guys for your support! I appreciate the kind words and all of the wonderful responses. And Larry thank you but if it's okay I would like to ask your grandson another question if that's okay?

Yes I did get it emails and thank you for your reply I have not exchanged my ps4 yet because so far I have not asked them about their exchange policy. I asked gamestop but I had no luck but they said that Sony the developers of the system would exchange it out since I'm still under warranty and they'd take care of me if the problem gets any worse. So far they have had me to things for temporary fixes but that's it. So my plan is to continue waiting and see how this issue evolves because my console works great aside from that error I mentioned. It popped up twice yesterday in the same game. So if it gets worse then I'll consult with Sony again and see what I can do. The thing is that this issue really only needs a simple update to be fixed but as of right now Sony hasn't released anything. So I have time. Warranty doesn't run out until November.