I have social phobia, so I have anxiety. Does anybody else get controlled by their anxiety? A psychiatrist told me if you put yourself in the exact situations that you have anxiety with eventually it will go away.
2 Likes
I think a great many people on this site suffer from anxiety. I know I do.
4 Likes
The Abilify I take gives me crippling anxiety and paranoia,
My doctor prescribed klonopin .5mg x daily and it seems to be helping a little.
I’m anxious and very paranoid
Yes it is true facing fears and taking baby steps will help
Yeah I have ptsd which makes me extremely anxious in a number of situations. I never had anxiety problems before ptsd and was actually very chill and laid back. I miss that.
1 Like
Also social anxiety and PTSD as well. It seems a good dose of Ativan relaxes me.
Yes I get anxiety especially when faced with my phobias (and i have several) but my meds helps a lot with calming my general anxiety. If i get protracted anxiety then an Ativan helps
Atm anxiety through the roof!
@shellys12 @Jake I grew up with a crippling fear of people throwing up. My sister would get carsick, and it was really, really bad. We would be driving home from Christmas with my grandparents, and my parents would let us have our presents in the car. My sister would get sick all over them. For a while, I refused to ride in cars. Every time someone coughed, I panicked. A kid got sick in my 1st grade class once, and I walked the perimeter of the classroom to get to the girls’ bathroom then locked myself in it. They had to have my mom come to the school to get me to unlock the door. I know the names of every kid that ever threw up in front of me at school, all the way back to Kevin in 1st grade, who ate too much Halloween candy and got sick after lunch.
Even now, I carry dramamine with me to hand out to whoever is riding in the car if need be. I give it to my youngest daughter on long car rides and won’t let her look at electronics or books/ coloring books in the car because she once got sick in the car while she was playing her Nintendo 3DS. I don’t know for sure that’s what caused it, but just in case, no video games or reading in the car, and she gets a dramamine.
I am much better about it than I used to be, even considering that I carry around motion sickness pills. I have been slowly acclimatized to it as a parent. I still panic a bit, but I don’t leave the house now. I just hide in my room and won’t use the bathroom because I’m scared the sick person will need to throw up, and I’ll be in their way. But I’m seriously much better because I have been around sick people more as a parent. I don’t clean up the messes though; my husband has to. If someone gets sick when he’s at work, he takes the rest of the day off to take care of them.
How does PTSD cause anxiety?
I suffer from anxiety…
It really affects my day to day life…
Supposedly a ssri is supposed to help
I have similar fears. I’m afraid of throwing up when I eat in public at a restaurant. I have social phobia so therefore I get paranoid about this fear. If my social phobia was better then this fear won’t be as bad. So they kind of go together.
When I get flashbacks it can produce anxiety and lots of it. Prozac helps with that thankfully.
1 Like
Yes. Me.
I always have some milder anxiety I think, but just got used to it and learned to function despite being nervous or anxious or scared of making mistakes. I have months and months that I live with little meds (in the past even no meds at all) and do sort-of-fine. But I’m always anxious and it does influence my life and choices.
Then… something triggers me badly…always something religious or related to sexuality (à have ptsd)…and I’m overwhelmed by crippling anxiety and guilt and psychotic thoughts. I then raise meds and talk to people a lot. Very often in a week or so I’m back to my normal state of mild anxiety again.
For the “normal” fears exposure (putting myself in those situations) seems to help. My social anxiety is still there, but much less than before. E.g. I was always scared of taking initiative in social situations, even with friends, but now I’m much better at that. I even did real exposure therapy for some traumatic fears.
But for a few major psychotic fears, exposure really works counterproductive for me. I really think those things are bad and evil and I’m so incredibly overwhelmed by fear and guilt afterwards, thinking I go to hell for having done that, that it’s really a pretty bad idea I guess.
So I think it depends a bit what kind of fears you have…
@Anna what gave you ptsd
I used to have pretty bad anxiety.
I’ve been able to work through it, and I’ve gotten rid of most of it, but sometimes it resurfaces, especially in triggering situations or if I’m really stressed.
I become unable to do anything. Eat, shower, leave the house, I just sit on my bed, petrified.
Sometimes I even get so scared I cry. If you know me, you know I cry tears maybe once a year or so, so it takes a lot to get me there.
What helped me was allowing myself to be afraid, instead of panicking about panicking.
You know, "Oh no, I’m scared, what if someone sees, I need to stop this immediately, it’s not stopping, why is it not stopping"
That train of thought never helped me, so when I learned to allow myself to be scared and try to survive the symptoms instead of running from them, it helped immensely.
I also tend to dissociate, which is probably a less healthy coping mechanism, but I can’t seem to stop.
I believe that our kind of anxiety can be helped only with meds.
My psychosis. I never used to know that it could cause it but it turns out it can. (And that a large number of people with psychotic disorders have been traumatized by their experiences and it goes unrecognized!) It’s called psychosis induced ptsd I think. I get horrific hallucinations. I developed it after my first major episode.
2 Likes
Yes I think I also have ptsd
While I was on seroquel I experienced really bad paranoia I was literally in agony
I had to wait eight weeks to get off seroquel those were the longest eight weeks of my life
It scarred me and created a great anxiety
1 Like