advice badly needed

Hi there-
I would tell you to seek out some therapy. It cant hurt! You want to nip this in the butt ASAP. Do not let it go bc the anxiety will continue to consume you until you can no longer function. The longer you let it fester the worse it will get. Trust me! My anxiety has slowly been building over the last 4 years or so and it just really came to a head last Sept or so and now I am really struggling. I wish I had gotten help earlier.
I have real bad health anxiety so I know how you feel!
You are so young and have so much to look forward to, so seek some therapy and learn all you can about anxiety disorder! Try to do something to get your mind off of it. Try studying even if you feel like you cant. I found that helped me focus on something else, even though school can cause stress!
Good luck with your midterms!

I am 30years old, male that has been suffering from anxiety/panic attacks for about 8 years now.


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Post Edited By Moderator (Howlyncat) : 1/10/2007 1:29:12 PM (GMT-7)

I would suggest you try to get into a group therapy thing (especially if it has younger people in it).  I started to suffer with anxiety around your age (I'm now 59) and that's the one thing that really seemed to help - knowing you're NOT crazy and that millions of others go through the same thing.  Meds might help too but I really believe talking with others (including this wonderful site) truly help sufferers like us feel more "comfortable" and normal again.  Believe me, doing SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to keep your mind occupied is a big help too - even when it seems impossible that you can concentrate - just go through the motions.  One of the greatest pieces of advice my mother ever gave me (and she understood anxiety because she too was a sufferer) was "get up and do something - even if it's cleaning out the frig - and if you don't feel any better when you're finished - clean it out again!).  The point being - it's the "keeping busy" that's important.  Over all these years I've had bouts of anxiety/panic/depression and periods when I felt just fine.  You WILL be okay and as you learn more about this yukey disease, the more you'll realize that as devastating as it feels when you're going through it, it WILL NOT kill you and you WILL NOT go crazy.....I've been thinking for years that I will and it's never happened yet.  But I do feel so bad for you - I clearly remember how absolutely devastating it was for me when I first started to suffer.....I was sure it was just me and that I WAS crazy.  Thank God I had a parent who understood and would always talk with me and listen no matter how crazy I might have sounded.  And that's why I think the group therapy is important - most young people like to talk anyway - and especially anxiety sufferers - so that's a great forum to get out alot of crap and listen to what others go through.  So the best of luck to you - you WILL be fine (and you don't have any bad physical diseases at your age either, trust me.....I thought I had every disease in the book and I'm still going strong...what alot of time I wasted with that worrying).

I cried too with relief when i came on these forums!!!  i was so scared when I got this severe anxiety which started a few months ago.  i was sure i was crazy, or maybe schizo (even though i don't hear voices, etc.), i kept thinking the worst.  only to realize that i had anxiety symptoms.  the symptoms though were all too much for me to handle!  i can relate to you when you say that your mind won't let you rest!  welcome to the story of my life.  for some reason, my brain keeps going and going with thoughts that scare the life out of me.  i'm still working on how to block it all.  like i've told many people on here before - these forums are what keeps me sane as i suffer with this anxiety disorder!  hope you feel better!

I have the same exact symptoms and need to go to the hospital to rule anything else out but i am freaking myself out goin to google and typing in my symptoms. its horrible but mostly anxiety. i havent gotten my period either in two months and the doctor told me too that i had a sinus infection but antibiotics did not help :(. so ur not alone. im 21 and otherwise in perfect health. i think i might have an aneurysm too so im going to the hospital tonite to get it ruled out.