Curious

I have anticipatory anxiety. I get anxious before going somewhere or having somebody come over. It sucks.

I have never had bad health anxiety but a little. I get negative, worse case scenario thoughts at times. I take xanax for it all.

Hang in there. If something happens with your health, you will deal with it.

Have a good day.

Hugs, Karen...

Hi

I have generalised anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety and ocd.

I take Fluoxatine and Olanzapine to help with my symptoms and I like to use mindfulness meditation which I find works well.

Hibee

I might have OCD or GAD, depending on who you ask. Maybe both.

This is my usual pattern: I do something, then later I regret it, then castigate myself for it, and worry intensely about the consequences. (I also tend to ruminate; that is replay the events over and over and over again in my mind)

I’ve suffered from this for more than a decade, episodically. But these days, I am going through a particularly bad stretch which has now been going on for about 15 months.

Some of the things I worry about are health related. But other stuff too.

I’ve tried therapy, with a highly regarded (and very expensive) psychologist, medication, meditation and a couple of other things. Nothing has worked. For now, I am off the medication because it was not helping. I do have Klonopin and Xanax, but I take those only on extremely rare occasion, and then in very small doses, because I do not want to get addicted

Exercise provides a short term temporary reprieve. But an hour later, the anxiety is back again. When I am hard at work, I also get a reprieve from the anxiety. But that’s not a great solution because I really don’t wanna work 12 hours a day seven days a week!

In many ways, I am very fortunate. I have a good job, enough money that I do not have to worry about money, a nice house, a great family, friends, etc. but the intense and almost ever present anxiety that I suffer from makes it hard for me to enjoy my life. And despite trying I’ve not been able to find a solution

ihad all types of anxiety-in spades!

I have generalized anxiety. I've been on medication continuously for 10 years, which has helped tremendously. I have also picked up, and continue to pick up, useful tools to deal with anxiety. Many have worked really well, most have worked somewhat, and only a few not at all.

I've had health anxiety off and on. Having had cancer twice and more recently heart disease, the anxiety does have a basis in fact. But doing what I can realistically do to maintain good health is in my control, so that reduces the associated anxiety.

I’m not sure if it’s health anxiety or general, I have had anxiety for 10 years, i have been on and off from meds, I can say out of those 10 years it has been controlled most of the time to the point where I say, I got this but this current situation made it all go bad. My anxiety with covid return in the way that I wake up feeling scared because I don’t want to die. I hear suicides in tv and make me very anxious because I don’t understand what happens to those people. I have a good job, a beautiful daughter, I’m a single mom but i have a great family by my side and so I don’t understand why anxiety just finds a way to try to get to us every time you think you have overcome it.

Yes!
It is the fear of the unknown that awaits our future. These times have affected our children. The fact that people call it the “new normal “.
I also take it day to day. 2020 certainly was not the year I was expecting.
But you are right about one thing. At least we have this place we can come to and vent to each other.

Yes each other we help, and all we meet who are in need, cheers. HT