Anxiety ruining life, anyone experienced something like this and know how to fix it?

S.C.

I appreciate your observations.

Michael said he was having anxiety on the anxiety section.

I asked him if he had any family history of mental illness and he said his mother had bi-polar.

So I told him maybe that was what he had. Anxiety is a part of manic-depression, so it seems that connecting his mother's bi-polar with his anxiety would be a possible connection.

How I'm supposed to leap back to the m-d section when he's still in the anxiety section I'm not sure.

You say, "...and I am afraid you are getting close to overstepping the line of support...into pushing your own beliefs and agenda...so I will kindly ask you to stay within the parameters of supporting/encouraging please."

I've seen others recommend medicines that have helped them, that's why I mentioned that Lithium helped stop my panic attacks.

It is rather difficult for me to simply be a cheerleader by simply saying you hope they are doing better. If I have had an experience with my m-d for instance, I don't see why I should not say that.

What am I supposed to do, watch that person wander aimlessly for decades when I have experienced similar trouble and not warn this individual what may lay ahead?

If I am an alcoholic, and someone says they have a problem with drinking, I can't say, "I was helped by AA meetings?" I have to say, "Have a good day?"

Is that pushing my beliefs?

Hi thanks for the reply,
I don’t even know what I’m thinking really let alone saying. My mother has had extremely bad bi polar on and off over the years. As In every few years she would have to be admitted to a sort of mental asylum for 6 months- a year or so during which time I just kind of moved around a lot between different people’s houses.

I have tried asking my doctor if it could be anything else, I’ve explained all of my symptoms and asked her about the medication which she has swapped multiple times, my psychiatrist also swapped my medication but I won’t be seeing her for another 20 days or so, and can’t make it out to my normal doctor to see if anything else could be causing the problem. The doctor did say that I have depression, panic disorder, and agoraphobia but the main thing that was effecting me was the so called ‘anxiety’
I’ve told multiple people all my symptoms and they just say that it has to be anxiety, even though I’m convinced it’s something serious. I’ve been to 3 different doctors about 100 times, er, called the ambulance, psychiatrist, psychologist and all of that. I really don’t want to be on medication, I just want to get a real answer of what the problem is and get it treated so that I can go back to my old life. I really just want to be able to go back to university in 2 months’ time, and be able to leave my house without the constant feeling and fear of dying.

I’m personally convinced I have some serious illness but all the doctors I’ve been to say that I’m perfectly healthy. I just don’t get how one day I can be fine, going to gym, going to university, going out places, and then the next I’m just unable to do anything. I keep thinking if it really is anxiety or something like that, some of this treatment should have helped by now but it hasn’t.

The next appointment I have is with a psychologist in a few days if I’m able to make it to that, I feel like there isn’t even any point going. Like I will tell them all my symptoms as I have with everyone else and they will tell me it’s anxiety and just tell me to do breathing techniques and all of that which I have tried before. I really don’t know what can help me anymore but if I make it to my appointment in a couple days maybe this psychologist will be able to help, if not maybe I’ll have to try a different doctor and see what they think it is or something like that.

S.C.

I do better understand what you are saying and I appreciate your guidance.

Prew

Very wise words lol.

Hibee

Hi Michael28 just checking up on you!

It has been long since you posted ... How are you keeping..I hope you have got used to Mr Enxy that it doesn't bother you anymore..fear of dying is no longer in your mind..

Let us know how you doing ..

Have a blessed day

Hello Michael28,

I'm a new member here and just wanted to pop in and let you know that your situation sounds eerily like my own. I just posted my story today, https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=9&m=3691337

"I keep feeling like there is something wrong with my heart or body in general and am unable to fall to sleep as every time I try to I get this shocking sensation through my body which makes me jump up."

I just wanted to let you know, I'm right here with you brother. Although I did not mention it in my post, I too have had some scary symptoms while trying to goto sleep at night that would cause me to leap out of bed in a cold sweat. Being that I've had so many symptoms over the years I can't recall all of them at any one given time so my post does not mention this particular symptom. Your story has touched me as you are the first person to describe something very close to my experience that not to many others have seemed to experience or told the tale if they do.

For a 4 month period I was barely able to get any sleep at all whatsoever. Upon laying down for the night, within 5 minutes my entire body would start to go half numb followed by a tingling sensations that would morph into straight physical pain, every single nerve in my body felt as if it was on fire. As the pain would increase in these few minutes, despite being fully conscious I would feel what I would describe as being in a tunnel lit of life or consciousness. Suddenly the light in this tunnel would darken, as if my life was being drained from my body and I was simply nothing more than a cellphone battery losing its charge. The light would start to fade out and with it, my body would feel as if it was dying out as well. I would literally jolt outta bed in straight fear. As soon as I would stand up and race towards the closest friend or family member, it would vanish within 30 seconds of standing. I would pace around for 15 minutes or so regaining my composure reassuring myself it's just this garbage playing tricks on me and I was fine. I would lie back down and try again to goto sleep. Within 5 minutes, again here it came. Time and time again I would jolt up in a mini panic and just as it did before it would vanish after 30 seconds of standing. I would repeat this process over and over again until eventually I would fall asleep within 5 minutes of lying down due to being sooooo darn tired. Some days it would only take a cycle or two and other days I would repeat this process for upwards of 6,7,8 hours.

For some reason or another our body or subconscious mind is in some type of distress and it is trying to get our attention. Just like a child, if we do not respond the way it wants, it will try and find another way to annoy us until we finally pay attention. What we are feeling is not death, it is simply our subconscious trying to talk to us letting us know that something isn't matching up. Whether it be, it's tired of our diet, the things we put in our bodies or our negative worrisome thoughts or simply our lifestyle in general. The human body is a extremely complicated biological machine that dwarfs a computer in comparison. It's also fully capable of healing itself given the correct tools the body needs. Even now in 2016 there is still so much we simply do not know about the human body.

I noticed in the past few months, each time you post, you comment how you don't think you will make it through the night, yet here you are. Please understand that there is a MAJOR difference in the way your Conscious and Subconscious mind work. The conscious mind can make decisions, it knows right from wrong, it knows what it likes and does not like, it can adapt to whatever it needs to when needed. The Subconscious mind on the other hand cannot. It does not care what is real or not, it does not care what's right, wrong, normal, good, bad ect. It simply reacts to the information it's given based on your conscious thoughts or input from our various sense's completely on it's own with no particular ruleset. It's completely void of any real tangible instruction it simply reacts from our input and responds accordingly. The only way to influence the subconscious is by consciously altering the input that is causing the subconscious reaction. By thinking you won't make it through the night, you are literally telling your subconscious, "we're not gonna make it" the subconscious responds "ok, we're not gonna make it", so in return this is the feeling it outputs back to your senses. This is where CBT comes in and why it has very good results with those with Anxiety issues. In most cases, we simply just need to change the way we think to get a different subconscious result.

Hope to hear from you soon friend, take comfort in knowing you are defiantly not alone in this battle!

Hi Michael,

It is great to hear of your excellent progress...I am so happy about and impressed by this!

I am sure your last EKG result was a test anomaly...they do occur...and that is why a retest was ordered. As your doctor said...everything else indicates all is well, so feel confident that you will get a good report at your next appointment! :)

Keep up the great work on your anxiety management. ..and continue using your coping skills to remain positive!

Thanks for the update, and let us know how your appointment goes, so we can celebrate the good new with you.:)

S.C

Hi,

I saw my doctor today and she pretty much just said that the place I got the ECG at sent her the results and as the ECG said probable LVH she wants me to get an appointment with a cardiologist. I still have no idea if this is serious or not, but she also commented on how it was strange that I had about 20 ECGS before this and none of them showed anything wrong. Nevertheless she said because of these results I should see a cardiologist, She called them up and filled out a form and all that to mail to them. So I have no idea how long it will take to get an appointment, but I'm pretty sure they will ring me up or something to tell me. She didn't mention the blood tests or anything so I'm assuming they came back fine like the other blood tests, she also checked my blood pressure and like last time It is no where near being high (114/58) From what I've read and heard about LVH, it's normally caused my high blood pressure, or is genetic, so it seems kind of strange to me still that I have low blood pressure, and if it was genetic it would have appeared much earlier. This is kind of annoying as it makes my anxiety slightly worse as I still have no idea if this is the case or not, or if it's serious. I guess I just have to wait for this appointment with the cardiologist, but that could be quite a while.