I don't ask allot, but I need help with Anxiety.

Okay for about a month now I've been suffering from some anxiety. I have had about three attacks so far and I am sick and tired of it. I think I have a good idea of what sprouted the anxiety, but I dont know why, as the reason I'm thinking of, occured sometime in early 1999-2000. So thats eight years not having an issue with it, and then suddenly, this happens. I've been having this feeling every night, that I'll die in my sleep (rediculous I know).

I've been taking St Johns Wort, and that appears to be doing some help, but for about a week now, I've been feeling like this pressure around my head, as if someones just got this belt or something and is constricting it and really its whats sparked this journal. Somedays I'm handling it fine and then others it just gets like this. I'm even seeing my college shrink once a week now, trying to sort it out.

Last night in particular I had the head band thing again, like this morning and I just felt like 'you know this is it, see ya' and I even set my alarm on my phone to go off every hour of the night.

I was wondering if the feeling around my head might be an 'all in your head' symptom? Like golbus (a feeling that you may get because of the anxiety, its a feeling that there is something lodged in your throat like a rubber ball or something. And you feel as if you cannot swallow solid food.)

i just need some advice, should I just be doing what I am doing now? See a doctor about it? What?

 

if the st johns wort isnt taking the edge off properly it may be time to try some prescriptions from your doctor, but see if you can start off with the lowest dose etc so you dont get overloaded
try yoga as well . sounds silly, but its been helping me out quite a bit. then again my anxiety attacks manifest in chest tightness and breathing problems. yoga make syou focus on your breath and movement more than naything else, but the relaxation side effects may be helpful enough fo rya

 

anxiety sucks. the only thing that's ever worked for my anxiety is keeping my mind either busy or quieted... so you don't keep reinventing your problem. the more thought you give to your fears or anxiety - good or bad - the worse you make it all on yourself. definitely try meditation, it can help a ton.

 

when you get the sensation in your head, go sit somewhere quiet and calm and focus on the sensation and feeling in your head

It probably isn't going to go away, your just going to adapt to it

 

reading threads

just wondering how
you are coping
hope the attacks have eased

unresolved issues in life always
come back and bite us on the bum

 

Well thank you For the past few days, things have settled down dramatically. The attacks have settled (tap wood), but I'm still taking the St Johns Wort.

I still have a few unresolved things that need some taking care of, but I can see the sunrise.

 

glad to hear your in a

better place

 

I really appreciate that, thank you very much

 

Stop waking yourself up every hour. THAT is one of your problems.

When you don't enter into deep sleep, you're keeping your mental motor running all the time. Like an animal in the forest does. Ok for survival, but your fears have no basis in reality.

Its time you faced your fears. And only being 17, I''m betting one of those fears is turning 18 and getting out into the world on your own.

Hormones. You're producing bucketloads of them at your age, but maybe not consistantly. When you have an "off" day, this may be triggering some of your responses. You're not getting your fix.

Next time you see your gyno, discuss this with them.


x

 

Thank you. And that was rather creepy, because I have been waking myself up hourly, so I'm getting out of that gradually.

Thanks for your suggestions too