Really bad anxiety help

Hormone fluctuations can certainly increase anxiety levels and its symptoms! I am having trouble with that myself at the moment.

Take some time and practice your deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation exercises. Also yoga and meditation are good ways to relax and feel centered again. If you feel up to it, a good brisk walk, or other cardio exercise is a great way to relieve stress/anxiety.

If your disturbing thoughts continue or get worse, perhaps an emergency call to your therapist would be in order, or if you feel that you, or others around you are not safe...a trip to urgent care.

I really hope that you can start to feel better soon. Post back and check in when you can, and let us know how you are doing, okay?

S.C.

I think SC meant that if you are really frightened by the intrusive thoughts you are having you should remember you can always see a Dr. or reach out for help from the medical profession on the week-end by making use of an Urgent Care or Emergency Department. 

I have had intrusive thoughts at different times in my life, however mine have been different from yours. I have learned that the thoughts usually occur the most when I am stressed, depressed, or have some inward anger. For me the thoughts are connected to anxiety and stress for the most part. Knowing this helps me talk my way through them.

Intrusive thoughts are a common symptom of OCD.  Please do talk with your therapist to learn how to deal with these thoughts when they happen.

Kindly,

Kitt

Thank you all for your responses...after posting this yesterday I would like to inform you that I realized I had forgotten to take my pill the day before, (I was so worried about my quiz) that had never happened before.  Stkitt yes, after the intrusive thoughts I started feeling very depressed, but yes I was upset yesterday for some work issues and on top of that some family issues, I tend to let out those feelings by crying and then I start feeling better.  Today Im feeling a little better...once again thank you.

Hello headcase182, well have you asked your dr about therapy? I know there are resources here in this website that help you but, as far as my therapy is basically changing my negative thoughts to positive by various exercises and let me tell you, it is not easy as I give two steps forward and one back, these intrusive thoughts do come back and it is when we should not give them much importance and rather change them with a positive one, I know its difficult, there are days that are good, others not so much but, I have received much help from others who have recovered and I am looking forward for that recovery and so don't give up...maybe you can ask your dr for a referral to therapy so that they can find a right technique that can work for you...Im curious how long have you been on medication? justa because meds start to really work after a month or so of starting taking them. Take care and keep posting

yes anxiety and intrusive thoughts do get worse with hormone changes, I have only recently noticed this myself. I do not get narky or irritable, just slightly more emotionally sensitive, but my anxiety really spikes just before / at that time. This is very common!

Can I ask, do you resent your husband for something? do you feel like he does not love you as much as you love him, does this upset you? Do you talk about the way you feel with him? there must be some basis for those thoughts even though you do not want to physically hurt him. Are you worrying that he is going to hurt you (emotionally) and this is your mind acting in self defense ?

Even though it seems bizarre, a trained therapist should be able to make sense of it all for you - and it can be something simple - distorted by the complexities of the mind. we have all had a disturbing dream, it is just the mind making sense of something, or trying to make sense of a bunch of stuff! and some weird results can happen.