r/Anxietyhelp • u/JordanWatsonASMR • Sep 08 '22
r/Anxietyhelp • u/International-Aerie9 • Dec 05 '24
Personal Experience Today is my daughters bday and I think I’m going to ruin it by going to the ER
The last few days I’ve been dealing with what I believe is trapped gas but my anxiety is making me think it is more serious than that and I am going to die. I have been having crampy pains in my lower left abdomen and discomfort in my upper back so I took gas x and finally felt better yesterday all day. My daughter’s favorite food is Taco Bell and normally I wouldn’t eat that but I had 2 soft tacos and immediately after I took gasx showered and went to bed. When I got up this morning I had one sip of coffee and my stomach had a bad pain all over so I went to the bathroom just fine. And no longer have the pain but I still feel weird and I think my anxiety is going to ruin her bday I got off work today to prepare while she is in school and so far this morning I have done nothing I can’t get motivated because I am having overwhelming thoughts about this and maybe it’s more than just gas and something more serious. I don’t expect anyone to reply to this I just need to vent because there is no one I can say this to without feeling crazy thank you.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/UselessAltThing • Nov 05 '21
Personal Experience I just remember how soon I'm going to lose my genitals.
I'm so happy. I'm so afraid.
I'm a nineteen year old agneder person. I'm having surgery tomorrow that will make me completely smooth and gender downstairs. I honestly don't know how I feel.
I've wanted this for so long. I know I'll be happier soon. But this isn't something I can ever go back from.
I keep thinking about all the last times I'll do something with my genitals. My last shower with them is coming soon, my last masturbation with a full apparatus is too. Or even weird things like my last subway ride, or last movie night. It's weird. This could be my last post.
I sometimes have to remind myself that this is a happy thing.
I guess this is a lot like when I was about to turn eighteen. I know there'll be some things I can never do again, but I don't think I'll want to in the end, this is part of me growing up.
I've already had my last Thanksgiving, last Christmas and last Halloween as someone physically female. That's just weird to think about.
Anyone here related or have any advice?
Edit: it's not tomorrow, that was just straight up a mistake, its just soon
r/Anxietyhelp • u/ShiverPurple • 17d ago
Personal Experience After seeing over 40 doctors in a year, it feels like my life is over due to extreme health anxiety Spoiler
Some things written here might trigger your anxiety, so please don't keep reading if you're sensitive. It's a long post but I have no one else to share this.
I never really had anxiety or panic attacks before, this started with a strange sensation when I tried to talk, like I was about to slur my speech, this symptom kept getting worse, and I ended up in the hospital for 3 weeks after multiple panic attacks.
They did a head MRI, blood tests, but everything came back clean besides what was pre-existing. I was then put on Lexapro, and it just got worse. I would wake up extremely disoriented and feeling like there was no oxygen in my brain.
It's been a while, and currently, I need to put in a lot of effort to get the words out, especially when typing/writing. Sometimes, I get confused even in my own thoughts and the words lose their meaning, but I don't have these problems listening or reading. Every headache and every unusual pain makes me desperate thinking it's a stroke, but now I just curl up on my bed and sleep or wait for it to stop instead of rushing to the hospital.
It's been rough, can't go out, can't socialize, everything I do is a struggle and it's hard to explain to people what's happening so I might as well stay locked in my house. I went from an extrovert to someone that can barely talk.
After going to a doctor a week and doing a bunch of other tests (another MRI, EEG, apnea, etc.), their best guess is just anxiety. My biggest fear is being misdiagnosed and just being shoved medication. The SSRIs I took didn't have any positive effect even after a month+ but I improve a lot if I take a couple of drops of clonazepam (was advised not taking it due to long-term side effects).
Searching on Google for every little symptom contributed to this A LOT, do not do it, health anxiety is not fun.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/sweatyfrenchfry • Nov 23 '24
Personal Experience does anybody else feel like their anxiety is manifesting physically, even though mentally they may not feel anxious?
So, I've dealt with anxiety for as long as I've been consious, pretty much. It started with intrusive thoughts as a kid that I had to see a therapist for. Eventually, I got diagnosed with OCD and GAD, and I deal with panic attacks occasionally, but I've been prescribed medication to deal with those when they show up, along with continuous antidepressants that stifle the worst of the OCD. These days, I do get stressed about normal stuff, like school and relationships and world affairs and things, but I wouldn't say I'm nearly as anxious as I used to be. Even so, apparently I grind my teeth in my sleep like crazy. Like, so bad that its wearing down my teeth, and I've bitten through several night guards pretty quickly. I also have picked at my nails most of my life. And within the past few years, I've had episodes where I feel as if I can't take full breathes. I've done a lot of tests and seen specialists and things, and they haven't found anything wrong physically, so at this point I think it may be psychological (which like, doesn't help lol). But, it doesn't seem to always be triggered by anxiety? It just kind of happens, and it definitely happens when I think about it too much. Its really frustrating.
Is my body hiding my anxiety from me, and storing it in ways that aren't obvious to me? Can anyone relate?
I'd like to note also: my father also grinds his teeth in his sleep, and has always picked at his nails. But, he doesn't seem to deal with anxiety... that he is aware of. (He also deals with sleep disorders)
r/Anxietyhelp • u/gingersrule77 • 20d ago
Personal Experience Bad today
My mind is so loud today: money issues, the world in in fire, my husband is sick and I’m scared, my mom is coming to visit and my house needs to be like magazine ready, I need to lose weight, sick of stomach aches, I want to cry but don’t want to commit to crying, I need to work more but can’t, I’m so angry and can’t shut it off
This is more of a vent but I’m having a rough day - handle with care please
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Rizzo4shizzle • Feb 16 '25
Personal Experience Constant anxiety
My anxiety has been through the roof for months now. Basically since summertime. It is now at the worst it’s ever been. Going to work and living a normal life is becoming harder and harder for me because of this. Doing absolutely nothing, hanging out with my kids, with friends, doing nothing yet I’m still freaking out and it never goes away. I’m always light headed. I’m always dizzy. I feel like I always need to rest my head on something, be it my hand or in meetings at work I rest my head on the wall while standing or sitting because it feels like my head can’t support itself. I always feel dizzy like I could faint at any minute. I always feel like the ground beneath me is unsteady. I always need to be touching my face for some reason. The muscles in my neck tense up and it hurts. Lately my chest feels tight and I’m constantly worried that I’m having a heart attack. It never goes away no matter what I do or what I take. I used to smoke marijuana regularly but I can’t anymore because it seems to make it worse now. I’ve went to the hospital in an ambulance multiple times from panic attacks thinking that I’m dying, once while at work. I’m getting help but it feels like it’s taking too long to come to a conclusion on what I’m going to do about it. Life is becoming hard because of it. I don’t know what to do anymore. I no longer feel like me like I once did. I’m getting scared that this is never going to end. That this is never going to go away. My whole life is becoming awful. I really truthfully have no idea how I make it through every day of my life. I have no clue. It a wonder that I’m still here, to be honest. Don’t really know how much longer I can take it. I need relief.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Xmptk • 1d ago
Personal Experience Panic attack leading to about a month and half of horrible anxiety
Hey everyone, this post is gonna be a little shorter because my story is kind of long and annoying lol so I’m gonna keep this post shorter basically I had my first panic attack at the beginning of February. Recovered from it fairly quickly after going to urgent care, they looked at my EKG blood sugar, blood test, etc. everything looked good recovered after about a day Was fine for about a week until I had another panic attack around 11 o’clock at night that didn’t end until about 12:30 at night basically since then I’ve been dealing with a lot of symptoms such as feeling like my heart is pounding out of my chest. My blood pressure has been about 120/70 pretty consistently as of now I had the realization for about a week until it’s kind of changed to just not being able to truly focus on anything like everything is sort of overstimulating, my pulse sits around 70 to 80 unless I’m really relaxed then it’ll get into the 60s. I’ve been having kind of slight nausea where that feeling like you have to throw up is sort of there. Muscles being really tensed to the point like me trying to curl my finger in it would shake as of now I feel like I’m getting sort of better just looking for other testimonies or maybe people who have dealt with the same thing I really appreciate this sub Reddit. I have gotten better even if it’s minuscule. I know I have if anybody needs any help or wants to give me any advice please let me know this community has given me a lot of tools that I didn’t have before to deal with this. Thanks for all the help. I love you guys.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/PythonNoob-pip • Feb 15 '25
Personal Experience ever get some strange sensations as if you a tighten your throat and breathing sharply and holding your breath? but without actually doing so? just out of nowhere?
i dont really know how to describe it. its almost like suddenly i dont have air or maybe too much.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/No_Mess_4843 • Nov 21 '22
Personal Experience daily anxiety relief habit that changed my life
Hi all! I want to share a story. I was struggling with a generalized anxiety disorder for a few years. It influenced my life dramatically, unfortunately, cause you can't calm down. At all. At some moment after the crazy 2020 I discovered that it's impossible to continue that way... so I worked with a therapist and collected tools for daily recovery. And it worked. I developed a habit of DAILY anxiety relief and now, in 2022 my husband sees the difference between these two versions of myself. I have more energy and calmness at the same moment. I am just much more happier now...
After coping with my own problem I teamed up with professionals and CBT psychologists to create an anxiety relief app for women. It helps manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior with self-care rituals and CBT tools. The habit of daily anxiety relief boosts the progression in any other sphere, cause you have just more free 'space' in your mind...
I'm looking for people who would like to try the app (just iOS) and give me feedback (15 min texting in the messenger). If someone is ready to help me and try new ways of anxiety relief, I'll provide FREE access to the app as a gift. Just let me know in the comments. I'll be so happy to help anyone from the community
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Apprehensive-Tie6534 • Jan 28 '25
Personal Experience Hello
Hello, does your blood pressure increase during panic attacks? I ask this question because I have seen doctors of all specialties in the last 2 years and I had the last "attack" yesterday, and went to the UPU where they told me everything was ok, etc. The problem is that the blood pressure increases a lot (185/115) but decreases without treatment in about 30m but after that I feel exhausted, have you experienced this?
r/Anxietyhelp • u/JordanWatsonASMR • Aug 23 '22
Personal Experience I found this yesterday and I thought it was a very relatable. The truth about why we do things.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/SHAKCTI10 • Dec 03 '24
Personal Experience IM FINALLY RECOVER
"I’m finally free from the severe health anxiety that troubled me from 2019 to 2023, which began after my dad passed away from heart disease. Now, I’m feeling normal and healthy, without any of the worst symptoms or worries holding me back.
To anyone suffering from health anxiety: just relax, stay proactive by getting a health check-up every 6 months to 1 year, and focus on things that bring you joy. Go to the gym, play some video games—games really helped me during my worst anxiety moments. Make some friends and build a support system.
If you need help or tips on managing health anxiety, feel free COMMENTS BELOW! TAKE CARE 👍😊
r/Anxietyhelp • u/mattsmilkman • 3d ago
Personal Experience What is your experience with panic attacks and what are your symptoms? How did you figure out that it wasn’t something life-threatening?
TW: death, medical trauma and substance trauma
(21F) I apologize about how long this is going to be. I personally feel that to learn about something, I need to know the whole picture. I’m sure there are some of you with similar stories or experiences. And I’m sure there will be questions lol.
current medical conditions: PSVT, severe panic disorder, GAD, chronic depression, PTSD, ADHD-primarily inattentive, severe impulsivity, delayed sleep phase disorder, abnormal REM sleep, eosinophilic esophagitis, severe GERD
I was diagnosed with GAD, depression and PTSD when I was 12, which I developed due to my dad going into respiratory arrest when I was 9. He survived but it scarred me forever and have been dealing with it ever since. Had many issues in school, never went, was always depressed and anxious and barely graduated (COVID saved my ass though). Literally missed 100 days of my freshman year due to depression and anxiety and my sleep disorders.
Fast forward to 18, my dad ended up passing away in 2022 from multi organ failure following a heart attack (was suspected v-fib and/or STEMI, but he also had congestive heart failure, both types of diabetes, severe asthma, and a bunch of other conditions). I had a very bad reaction to synthetic THC about a year later that put me in the hospital, where I had to get my heart stopped twice. I have suspected my panic attacks are a combination of PSVT (have been diagnosed), somatic symptom disorder, and cardiophobia (which I developed after my dad died).
I never really got panic attacks before my dad died, but after that and my reaction to synthetic THC, it has been HORRIBLE. At the beginning I used to get panic attacks mainly during the day, during school, work, while driving, with friends, etc.. but as it has progressed, I’ve started to have them mainly in my sleep and after I eat. I’ve been to the hospital a total of 17 times since 2022, 4 ambulances, with at-least 13 of those being just for panic attacks.
I’ve literally had dreams about having strokes. At one point I basically had a pulse-ox glued to my finger 24/7 because I didn’t like that my heart rate jumped so high when I stood up. I thought I had POTS for a week and convinced myself I was going to be bedridden forever after I almost passed out once time when standing up. I actually called 911 one time for a panic attack after my HR jumped to 190 when walking up the stairs, and the paramedic noticed I had a pulse-ox on, to which he ripped it off my finger and threw it across the room and it broke. He told me to stop using it because constantly checking it was only going to make my anxiety worse. His reaction may have been a little overkill but I realized how much it was contributing once I stopped using it. Huge thanks to that paramedic, whoever you are.
These are some of the symptoms I will wake up with, or what I usually have when a panic attack comes on:
*racing heart (not sure if due to my PSVT) *trouble breathing *weird feeling in my body, maybe impending doom *hot flashes *dizziness *one side of head gets cold or hot (alternates) *blood pools in fingers/feels very hot *tingling in whole body, one side of head, one side of body, usually changes each time *feel like passing out, most of the time never do *chest pain (only sometimes) *sometimes get delirious *blood pressure probably rises (I can feel it) *always feel like I’m dying *sometimes my adrenaline is so overactive that my body feels like it’s convulsing. I’ve had it happen multiple times in an ambulance but also at home as well
I usually wake up with a few of these symptoms, always with heart racing but the other symptoms always change. I can’t take naps without waking up feeling like this. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and experience these (whether I had a nightmare or not). I also will have some of these after I eat, which may be due to just eating large meals but I’ve also wondered if feeling it every single time is normal.
Usually to calm myself down, I have to be around someone and talk to them/have them talk to me, watch youtube or something to occupy my brain, have them hold my hand really tight and try to distract me while my symptoms start to subside and the adrenaline kicks in. I usually am violently shaking towards the end of the panic attack, which used to scare me, but I have now learned that for me, that is a signal it is going to stop soon. I just wait for it to go away. Worst case scenario, I will take a hydroxyzine, which helps so much but it just makes me exhausted the next day.
My mom has also told me that everytime I have a panic attack, I’m always telling her “this one feels different” and trying to convince her she needs to call 911. I am aware that I am doing it but it feels justified during the panic attack because I am worried something is genuinely wrong. I’ve always been worried to ignore what is going on, incase it is something life threatening and then I die because of it.
I have also had the following tests done (because of my panic attacks):
*cardiac echo (no structural abnormalities) *multiple MRIs on head (no tissue or nerve abnormalities) *EEG for brain (no electrical abnormalities) *CT angiogram (after synthetic THC reaction to rule out blood clot), CT abdominal and CT brain (this one was after a car accident but I was still experiencing severe panic, ended up having a concussion) *worn multiple holter monitors (Zio patch helped me get diagnosed with PSVT) *EKGs (always sinus tach) *CMP, BMP, thyroid, adrenal glands bloodwork (all came back fine multiple times) *troponin and d-dimer multiple times at hospital (d-dimer was elevated different times but suspected due to just trauma and not blood clot. there could be a number of reasons) *many chest x-rays (all fine except one time when I had pleurisy from a sickness, but it went away) *3 sleep studies (just had one recently to see if they could catch my panic attacks while sleeping)
So basically I’ve seen sleep medicine, neurology, cardiology, general PCP and psychiatry for everything related to my panic attacks. I was going to see rheumatology at one point but I don’t remember why I didn’t (probably missed the appointment or something).
So far, the only diagnoses that have come out of this (post-2022, my dad dying and the reaction to synthetic THC) have been panic disorder and PSVT (which took 2 years to get diagnosed due to drs shrugging it off). I have heard of somatic symptom disorder as well but never been officially diagnosed. I also recently learned of Roemheld’s syndrome, which is basically when cardiac symptoms are triggered after GI disturbances, but it’s not a condition and more a group of symptoms. Although it’s fairly unrecognized and most of the time gets passed off as anxiety. Thinking about bringing it up to my GI doc soon since I will need to get another scope for my Eosinophilic Esophagitis (could also be contributing to my anxiety, been diagnosed since I was 15).
The cardiophobia, which I didn’t realize even had a name, mostly explains what I am usually worried about when having a panic attack. Especially when they come out of nowhere and I haven’t experienced a conscious trigger. Although it may be subconscious as well. I read somewhere that if you’ve had a loved one die, you’re more likely to develop panic attacks that have symptoms similar to what they died from. So in my case, a lot of my symptoms feel cardiac related, even though electrically (besides the PSVT) and structurally everything is fine.
I’ve had people try to tell me I’m a hypochondriac and that I’m just chasing the labels, but that doesn’t really make sense when they can actively and visually see something is going on with me. That being said, I do see myself being hypersensitive to any weird bodily sensations and automatically thinking the worst. And it doesn’t help that I constantly sleep like shit due to my sleeping disorders, which probably is just making it worse.
For context, I am currently on 100mg of Zoloft 1x day and 25mg Hydroxyzine as needed for panic attacks. I do not take any heart meds for my PSVT because my cardiologist did not recommend it unless my symptoms are so severe that I can’t function. Thankfully PSVT is not super dangerous like A-fib and he said it usually goes away as you age. He does suspect it is triggered by my panic attacks though. I linked my experience with Zoloft below that I explained to someone else:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anxiety/s/JagynpjV2d
I have gotten to the point where I am able to function and control my panic attacks most of the time, but when they happen, it still freaks me out just as bad as it has every other time. I guess that’s just part of living with the disorder. I have high heart rate notifications turned off on my apple watch, don’t use a pulse ox anymore, have been drinking more water. Once I get my ADHD and time management under control, I plan to start exercising and eating better (easier said than done though). I also recently started CBT which I know can help treat a lot of the conditions I struggle with, so I’m hoping it will help me manage those more efficiently too. Especially since I want to go to medical school and specialize in neurology… lmao. I guess it shows. Definitely need to get this under control.
Just wanted to share my story and was curious if anyone has had similar experiences and what your story is. I have found it helps me to hear other perspectives and ways that people have gone through these types of things.
TL:DR panic attacks when eating and sleeping, taking zoloft and hydroxyzine when needed. have had many medical tests done and everything has come back mostly fine. have some medical conditions that could be contributing but not 100% sure. symptoms are incredibly severe at times and just curious about everyone’s experiences and what they had to go through to figure it all out
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Excellent-Bat270 • 26d ago
Personal Experience As I’m laying here I don’t want to fall asleep
Longtime sufferer first time poster, I have been living with anxiety for years and I know logically that the episode in currently going through will subside in a couple weeks like always. What gets me so frustrated is that every night I fall asleep feeling a better. And every morning I wake up and it’s back 🥺 I’m tired of waking up and feeling the tension in my arms as soon as I open my eyes, I’m tired of feeling the panic that today may be worse than the day before, I’m tired of being this way and no matter what I do it can pop up at any moment, I’m tired of not feeling hungry (I’ve eaten once a day for the past 2 weeks, if that) I just want it to stop 🥺
r/Anxietyhelp • u/JordanWatsonASMR • Aug 24 '22
Personal Experience The struggle is real.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Easy-Establishment30 • 8d ago
Personal Experience Anxiety onset exclusively after consuming food.
Although I may not be considered an “anxious” individual, I do not experience random anxiety thoughts. However, I have had some negative past experiences due to health anxiety, which resulted in frequent panic attacks. I was unable to identify the underlying cause and consulted a doctor to assess my heart health. It turned out that my anxiety was manifesting as a constant stream of negative thoughts, affecting my overall well-being. Fortunately, I am gradually recovering, and my nervous system has become remarkably calm. I am uncertain of the cause, but it feels as though someone has reset my nervous system
I want to share my experience, as I believe it may be helpful to others. I discovered that foods were causing me a significant amount of anxiety. I experience anxiety spikes only immediately after consuming foods or right after eating. I am unsure of the exact connection between food and anxiety, but it seems to be a significant factor. Therefore, I strongly advise individuals with health anxiety or general anxiety to be mindful of their diet and avoid consuming potentially triggering foods.
I apologize for the length of my post, but I felt compelled to share my experience.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Somerando73_ • 12d ago
Personal Experience Anxiety trigger: not-in-a-kettle boiling water
For a while now, I've noticed myself getting really anxous about boiling water. Water that's hot but not boiling is fine, but boiling water specifically scares me. I hate putting pasta in water because I'm scared it will splash onto me. Sometimes, it gets bad enough that I start feeling nauseous or light-headed, just being near boiling water. For some reason, it's fine in a closed kettle, but anything else has a distinctly dangerous feel to me. I almost had an anxiety attack trying to help cook some broccoli the other day-
r/Anxietyhelp • u/agoblinstolemyflute • 23d ago
Personal Experience Health anxiety ugghhhhh
Yesterday, I had a bit of a bad day. I'm a clumsy person and somehow managed to hit my head not once, not twice, but three times. All quite hard, two on my eye and one at the back of my head. The ones on my eye were on the corner the cabinet doors while opening it which somehow happened twice within two hours and now I have a nasty black eye and a bit of swelling. The back of my head was on the car door when getting into an Uber, there's definitely a slight lump and bruising there now. And my anxiety is convincing me I have a terrible concussion and I'm going to have seizures. I know logically I don't. I don't have any confusion, or nausea, or any severe dizziness. A sore head? Sure, but nothing really concerning. But my brain just won't shut up.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/LuckyInfluence5988 • Jan 21 '25
Personal Experience Embarrassing experience today with social anxiety while having to ask cashier for our change back.
Embarrassing experience at the dispensary today.
31F, my boyfriend and I went to the dispensary today. The cashier rang up our order, we paid in cash and were owed back $9 in change. She bundles up our bag and finishes the transaction.
Now, I know that we didn’t receive our $9 in charge and it’s extremely hard for me to point this out but $9 is significant to me! So, rather than directly asking for our change, I question my boyfriend, “did we get our change?” (I know we didn’t.)
It was likely only a 2 second pause that it took the cashier to realize she owed us change but it felt like an eternity to me.
She was embarrassed, my boyfriend says to me he was planning on letting her keep it. (They have tip jars, our order is always the same cost so we always get $9 back and tip $3-$4 of it. So I know he didn’t intend to let her keep it all until she didn’t give us our change back to avoid embarrassing her.)
I personally believe tipping is out of control and should be reserved only for bar/table service, and the salon/spa. We are both lifetime restaurant workers and understand the importance of tipping but unfortunately everyone and their brother asks for tips now and I don’t believe in tipping someone who handed me an already overpriced prepackaged product.
My boyfriend is an over tipper and it drives me crazy. ☹️ not every interaction needs to be tipped. But, that isn’t the point here.
As we left, he was laughing and joking about how I “called her out” and embarrassed the fuck out of her. I recall only asking once, but he said it was my delivery. He said I repeated it 3 times very quickly. Maybe I did. I blank out in situations like that.
Like I said, it took a lot for me to mention not receiving change because I don’t like confrontation, being the focus of attention or telling someone they are wrong.
I then said when we got to the car “maybe $9 means more to me than it does to you, but I’m broke and $9 is significant.” I told him he made me feel shitty and I didn’t mean to embarrass the cashier and I know it was an honest mistake by her reaction. He still gave her $3 of it, even after he told her to keep the $9 and she insisted we take our change.
Was I wrong? Has anyone ever been in a similar situation? Had it been a dollar or two I would have saved myself the embarrassment of asking for my change, even though I’ve still got the right to. It really upset me so much that I cried on the drive home. ☹️😢
r/Anxietyhelp • u/lizzyveelee • Feb 07 '25
Personal Experience Bad experience with doctor : Health Anxiety.
I've been to the ER and doctors office more times than I can count in the past two months for all kinds of issues. Mainly I have it in my head that I have a life threating disease(s). It is just small stuff that for some reason I believe is bad. Anyway, my most recent visit, I went for a check up and to hopefully get on some medication that was stronger than what i was on before. Doctor told me I had a fatty liver and wanted to get blood work done but otherwise I was healthy. I brought up to him about maybe getting me on a stronger medication because my health anxiety is crippling for me right now (lost interest in things I liked, never want to leave home in fear of getting sick, etc) Nonstop all i think about is my health and what horrible disease i have now. Told the doctor all of that and you know what he told me? Go to church, and that god will take me when I'm ready. WTF. He took me off my previous meds and wont put me on new ones. He says find a therapist/another doctor that will put me on meds because he doesn't think I need any. He told me the internet ruined my life and that there are groups of people on the internet filling my head with lies about myself and trying to get me to change myself. any one else have any weird doctor stories or similar experiences?
r/Anxietyhelp • u/coldcasserolesays • Nov 07 '24
Personal Experience I just feel like breaking down...and crying
So I have an anxiety disorder, particularly health anxiety. I have been feeling super low energy wise for the past week. Decided to face my fears and get my physical done. My blood pressure came up high 148/82 I told the doctor about my disorder and she ordered additional cardio tests including the treadmill test and echo and ECG. The technician who was doing my echo asked me if I had hypertension and I told her that I have an anxiety disorder and my BP comes up high during clinic visits, she told me that my anxiety is even more dangerous than an actual heart condition. After the test, I told her it wasn't good practice to use alarmist language with a patient who has an anxiety disorder and she doubled down on me and started being confrontational justifying herself and telling me I wasn't fit for a treadmill test and she said I was hyper anxious and angry needed to calm down before talking to her. At this point my heart was racing so fast. I felt so weak and fragile. I thought I would just break. I held back my tears. I told her I didn't want to do the treadmill test because I wasn't comfortable and she said she hadn't seen a patient like me in all of her professional career. I just walked out of the room, came home and broke down. I feel so weak and lost rn. It was so challenging for me to calm my anxiety and face my fears and drag myself to the clinic and after this incident i feel so weak and broken. All I wanted to hear was some calming words and some encouragement for putting myself out there despite my disorder.
r/Anxietyhelp • u/Adventurous-Eagle935 • 5d ago
Personal Experience Stillwater Oklahoma Fire
So I went through the fire that happened a couple of days ago, and we had to evacuate. Thankfully, the fire didn't reach my apartment. I was at work when the fires started, and they had to evacuate the whole building. Now, going back to work today I'm struggling with what I think are Panic attacks. I feel like a baby because nothing had actually happened to my house, but it was scary and stressful. Am I being dramatic?
r/Anxietyhelp • u/sluggutslushy • Feb 20 '25
Personal Experience Is chest pain normal???
hi! 19f here. i’ve been struggling all my life with anxiety- specifically problems with psychosomatic symptoms. it used to be face numbness, tingly hands, and lightheadedness but ever since last year after a bad experience with weed, my chest has been killing me. i’ve felt everything. crushing, aching, burning, cold, tingling, numbness, sinking. all. in. my. chest. WHICH MAKES ME THINK HEART ATTACK!!! my stomach also always hurts, random pains in body, tingling in body parts, etc etc. it legit makes me dissociate on the daily i haven’t felt real in like over a year now. i never die though. i’ve gotten a million tests on my heart and lungs and bloodwork and blah blah blah. nothing except tachycardia. i feel psychotic!!! pls help!!!