so when did you start to notice you had anxiety

Hey there,
I first remember having anxiety in grade school. I went to a private catholic school and there was a lot of pressure. I had "stage fright anxiety" and if I had to stand up in front of group, I would forget what I knew or was suppose to say. I remember the adranaline rush as my hands shook and my voice quavered.
So I guess I have had it for a very long time.

I noticed I had anxiety when I had a panic attack in the car. I woke up feeling so anxious I didn't want to leave the house, but I did anyway and in the car I had a panic attack. This put me into a deep depression/anxiety feeling for days (mostly because I was so sad and afraid something was mentally wrong with me) and it got so bad I felt like going to the hospital.

I had a lot of symptoms of it before, like head tremors in large social settings or increased heart rate when I would enter classrooms, stuff like that, but I ignored it and thought it was normal and just a symptom of my self consciousness. It got much worse after I had a traumatic experience and the problems at home combined to give me depressive/anxiety episodes of non stop thinking and emotional feelings.

Now that I look back it seems I have had anxiety since a young age, most likely after a few traumatic experiences.

i think mine really came from when hurricane rita hit us and we made the mistake by staying home, we didn't plan on it , i will never let myself go threw something like that, 12 hours of terror, i think since that day i have notice i got agitated easier, i worried about removing any tree that was a distance that could hit our house still, i obsessed about this, i got rid of our horses, because they tied us to our house, crazy i know, but i wanted to make sure nothing would make us stay again, i guess it post traumatic stress, the sad thing is we didn't get any help, and the goverment even did a number on us, my husband filed for disater unemployment and it took a month before we got it, well a year and a half later they decided we didn't deserve it, and made us pay it back, we tried to contact someone but got a computer, we were in a mandatory evactuation area, had to have our house reroofed had 30 something trees laying our yard, couldn't leave everywhere was blocked off, if you left couldn't get back home to check animals, this is my problem i live to be or try to be ready for the wantifs.

The first time I really knew about my having anxiety was right after the birth of my daughter 17 years ago.  I came home from the hospital with her and felt like the drugs they had given me for pain just never wore off, then I became afraid of everything and fell apart from there.  Looking back over my life though, I've realized that I was always an anxious child.  When I started kindergarten, I would run away from the school and try to walk 7 miles home.  I was always anxious and very self conscious as a teen and into my early twenties.  Had a panic attack in the car one night when I was around 21, but after a few days was fine.  So, basically, I've had it to some degree my whole life, but it didn't start to really effect my life on a daily basis until I was 23 and had my daughter.

Hi.  The first time I noticed that I might have had something wrong was one day I woke up shaking like a leaf.  I had a really hard time walking (fell a few times).  I went to the hospital and they did all kinds of tests on me.  Healthy as a horse I was told even though I was shaking in my bed.  They told me it was extremly bad anxiety and they gave me Valium for 3 days and then to Clozapam. 

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Can I join you? I want to share my experience too. I'm 53 year old but got Parkinson's Disease when I was 37. I'm working in a residential care facility for the elderly here in California. Im the activity coordinator. What happened to me was that my whole body was shaking. We are in the middle of our bingo session when they informed me that the licensing was there in one of our house. We have 6 homes. I don't know what happen to me. All of a sudden I can't walk, my legs were shaking and almost lost my balance. The shaking was uncontrollable, from head to toe. Instead of going to the other home where the community care licensing was having their annual visit, I just sit down, but I kept on shaking. I thought I will expire at that time. That's the first time it happened to me. But I didn't lose my mind. I remember Dr. Andrew While in one of his book that if you have panic attack, concentrate and have a deep breath. I did that and slowly I'm back to normal. My body calms down. It's effective and I hope there will no second time.

I noticed about 5 yrs. ago, I thought I had heart problems but I ended up in the hospital and everything was fine, now I think about it I always had it a little but it wasn't as noticeable as it is now

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