Scaredy, SO great to hear from you!!!!! I keep telling myself I can beat this again should it get as bad as it did but I would be lying if I didnt admit that I am terrified of going it alone. For...
And hi to those who were not arpund when i was on this forum around this time last summer. The people here helped me keep my sanity and although I am forever grateful for the great people I met here...
For awhile now I've been experiencing physical anxiety symptoms again like a bit of shakiness and just general heart weirdness. I had this really bad last night to the point that I couldn't sleep...
I do have acid reflux that I take nexium for and have for years. Its just so strange to be feeling these physical symptoms again. It makes me feel so out of control of my body and ultimately that is...
I've been doing so well for weeks and now I'm having these physical symptoms again. I had hoped it was just the caffeine and chocolate the other night but it wasn't. Its been this way for a couple of...
Well that didn't take long did it? I've been feeling really good for weeks then today out of nowhere comes the racing heart and just uncomfortable sense of doom feeling. I do not understand it at...
You guys are truly the best. Im so very thankful that I stumbled onto this forum when I did. You all kept me going in my darkest hour and helped me to see what a difference thinking positive thoughts...
Hello everyone I hope you are doing well during this crazy time of year. I apologize for not being around to update. So many of you here got me through my toughest times and I truly don't know how I...
So I'm sitting here right now minding my own business feeling fine and my heart did this weird sort of flip flop extra hard double beat weird type of thing. It seemed like it took my breath away for...
Thanks everyone. We are hanging in there. Lisa I'm trying my best not to feel guilty but it is tough. I've got an appointment for an evaluation here in town next wednesday and will start there. Until...
Thanks Angel. It does help to hear stories about kids who grew up to be okay. I guess it is in my nature to go to worst possible case scenario. I've been working so hard on that but when it comes to...
Thank you Scaredy. I'm sitting here trying to do school work and I just cannot concentrate. I recently signed up for next semester and now I'm wondering if I should pull out? I've had such a hard...
Thank you Scaredy. This is just like being kicked when I'm already down. I know that there would never be any good time for this to happen but my god it is just killing me. I look back and wonder if...
I am so broken right now. I am just starting to get back on my feet after anxiety took my whole life and turned it upset down back in August. This is the longest stretch I've gone without feeling bad...
Thanks! I know that the guilt is stupid and isn't helping but I just can't shake it. I'm sitting here feeling more anxious than I have in awhile and I hate it. How am I supposed to help my little...
My husband and I just took our daughter to school because she is too upset to take the bus. I told her we wouldn't walk her in today but ended up letting my husband do it because I had just thrown on...
I agree with Lisa about the pushing yourself. That has made all the difference in the world for me. If I hadn't gone back to work I think I would have driven myself crazy by now. I also just made...
Thank you Scaredy. I am hurting more than I can handle right now. Sometimes it is so damn hard to be the adult. It is like you are supposed to know what to do for your child but you are just as...
I just feel so lost. It feels so unnatural to send your terrified child somewhere that they don't want to go. I know in my head that she must go but it doesn't make it any easier. Now I will have...
Just got an email from the counselor that she has had her worst day yet. The counselor has had to sit in the classroom with her nearly all day. I am beyond heartbroken. I hope to god that at the very...
She is five years old, will be six next month. Thank you so much for the kind words. I need to hear them and believe them. I just found some books on amazon I will order tomorrow and I need to get my...
Thank you. I am a mess. Sitting here in tears and just don't know what to do with myself. I think I'm going to just try going to sleep because right now it is just too much to deal with. I feel so...
My fears about my daughter were definitely dead on because she is not doing well. She was home from school sick again yesterday but went back today. Last night she cried and cried that she didn't...
I'm glad to hear it helped your daughter Bambi because I worry that it will make things worse for mine. It's funny to me the difference in the school in the years since my oldest went through this...
Thanks a ton!!!! I have to get ready for work but will look into these as soon as a get a chance. I will also just try to breath and figure out concrete things to do to actually help the situation...
I forgot to add that the counselor took her to talk to her and from what I understand work on some breathing techniques. I worry that this will make a bigger deal of it all in her mind and that also...
My daughter missed school Friday because of a stomach bug but went back today. She wasn't feeling 100 percent and had a bit of a sore throat she said. I still sent her because I didn't want her to...
Hi everyone! I know a lot of us here suffer from fear of the "what if's." I've gotten so much better at realizing that worrying about things that probably won't ever happen is pointless. One problem...
From what you are saying this sounds like what Claire Weekes says in her books. To basically just go with it and not fight it. I try and I think most days I manage to do that. Some days though my...
I think that is the anxiety talking. It always makes of feel less worthy than we are. Everyone has a place here. Even if a person only lurks and reads it doesn't matter because you can still gain so...
Cornell, apparently we have the same past issues with drugs. I am always paranoid now that I will fall back into that but so far so good. I do the same thing with drinking even now which is why I...
Thank you for your kind words everyone. I know it probably seems like I'm overreacting but to be honest the signs have been there for a bit. I had been seeing things in her and wondering but told...
I've mentioned in the past that my oldest daughter who is now a teenager at one time battled sever anxiety and OCD. We took her to Mayo Clinic for therapy and thank god she hasn't had any issues...
Cornell, I am so very sorry about this. Please don't beat yourself up over something that you really didn't have any control over. It was a mistake and a lesson learned. I'm sorry about your marriage...
I seriously love you for sharing this!!!! I often get afraid that I am in the early stages of dementia but I'm finding out this type of stuff is all too common. The ability to laugh about it sure...
Glad and sad to know I'm not the only one. I've messed around too long to take a nap and now I'm regretting it because I'm SO tired and here it is time to get ready for work. As far as going outside...
I'm having one of those days where I'm not having full blown panic attacks but I just don't feel right. Like I keep sort of wandering around my house aimlessly or wasting my time on the internet. I...
Here I sit typing this when I have loads of school work to do and I've fallen behind again. I have to do my work during the day when my kids are at school for obvious reasons. When I'm home alone...
I could have written your post myself. For me everything you said is the worst part of this. The fact that you have to keep yourself distracted to even semi-normal is exhausting. I'm home alone right...
I used to adore alone time but now I HATE it. All it means for me is time to be inside my head and I don't want that. I'm to the point anymore that I take my phone with me almost anywhere to either...
I didn't know this person but it breaks my heart all the same reading this. I hope she is able to pass without too much more pain. It seems like she was a person who helped many and was very loved....
I hope I don't come off as disrespectful here because I really don't mean to but here goes. So my best friend of over 25 years became a very devout Christian a few years ago. She had always believed...
Cornell, you are too funny! I just ended up taking a Xanax because I chickend out but thankfully that was enough. Oh and Lisa in my neck of the woods there isn't any 24 hour pharmacy, nearest one is...
I'm up in the middle of the night with this stupid sinus headache and sore throat crap that I've had for a few days now. I absolutely cannot sleep and feel really bad. I got up to see if I can take...
Thanks Jessica that really means a lot. I actually felt this way before my mom died but it seems to get worse as time goes on. I haven't completely given up but in my heart I just don't know that I...
Thanks guys. I was just overflowing with positivity a few weeks ago but not sure where all that went to lol! Overall I'm still much more positive than in the past but as time drags on it gets harder....
Thanks Lisa. I guess in the overall scheme of things I'm doing very well compared to where I was when I came here. Sometimes I think it is easy to forget just how bad I was. Still these physical...
Tomorrow I'm going for my med recheck and will be probably going up on my prozac and also asking for a higher dose of xanax. I'm currently taking half a milligram as needed and that isn't doing much...
Thanks Scaredy- I truly feel like for me at this point in my life I am spreading myself too thin. I keep comparing myself to others I know who handle so much more and I feel like a failure. Right now...
I am going through a time of not being sure of what I believe when it comes to god. As a child and teen I wasn't one who went to church much but I always believed and would pray and felt like I was...