Hi everyone,
I've never posted on a forum or anything before but things have been getting out of control for me. I guess i've always been sort of anxious. when I was in middle school and highschool I worried about
school work and social situations a lot and my mom always told me I needed to stop stressing or it was going to end up affecting my health. I never meant to stress but it just happened. During my junior year of high school my stomach started growling. It was so embarrassing and I tried everything to stop it. It would only growl after I ate lunch and before my last class of the day I would go to my mom's office and cry because I was afraid it was going to be loud in class. I finally figured out how to control that but unfortunately that wasn't the end of my problems. A different kind of growling started during senior year and it was in the morning. Gradually lunch time was no longer a single incident and I started worrying about
my stomach all the time. And that brings me to today. My first semester of college went really well but when I went back for second semester it started getting bad again. Now I'm off for the summer but work in this super quiet office and my anxiety is beginning to get the best of me. I've pretty much accepted that the only reason my stomach is growling is because of my anxiety so I tell myself not to worry but I end up worrying about
not worrying! It's this awful wheel of anxiety that I cannot overcome. Even when I'm not in a quiet place I'll worry about
my problem not going away by time I get back to school. I feel a tightness in my chest and stomach at all times and today I made an appointment to talk to a doctor about
maybe going on medicine for my anxiety. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else constantly feels like this and maybe it affects their stomach and if they've done anything to help their anxiety.
Post Edited (timewilltell) : 6/27/2013 9:06:42 AM (GMT-6)